The City's Largest Paving Project Announced
A $200,000 infrastructure overhaul is set for Puyallup Avenue and Bay Street.
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The largest improvement district ever created in Tacoma was advertised for remonstrance today in the proposed paving of Puyallup avenue and Bay street, which all told will cost over $200,000. The cost estimated for the property owners will be $176,879, and all the paving to be put in by the Northern Pacific and T. R. & P. and Interurban railways will be in addition to this. The streets will be paved either with prepared wood blocks or with brick. The job will be ready to let the last of March.
“The largest improvement district ever created in Tacoma was advertised for remonstrance today.”
This massive investment in the Tideflats area highlights the industrial backbone of early Tacoma. The fight over infrastructure costs—and who should pay them—is a debate that has raged for over a century in the port district.
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