A Potential New Waterfront Park
The City of Tacoma is in negotiations with the Northern Pacific Railway to convert an unused bluff into a continuous public park.
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If the Northern Pacific Railway will give the city the bluff, the park board will make a continuous park from the City Hall to Old Town. The proposition was talked over with President Elliott and Thomas Cooper by President Bennett and Marshall K. Snell of the park board today. The railway men did not commit themselves, but it is thought that the proposition may be considered with favor, as the bluff is of no use to the company and is expensive to keep up.
“The railway men did not commit themselves, but it is thought that the proposition may be considered with favor.”
Tacoma’s long-standing desire to connect its downtown to the waterfront via parkland remains a central tension in city planning today. The 'bluff' mentioned is the precarious, steep terrain that still defines much of the city's relationship with the Ruston Way corridor.
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