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A lot of negative crap went down this week.
by Volcano Staff
Jul 31, 2008
The man behind much of the revitalization of Tacoma’s SoDo District, Henry Liebman, has officially announced plans to renovate Tacoma’s Foremost Dairy building as commercial office space. The 81-year-old art deco building once housed a milk and ice cream factory, and has sat fallow for years. It definitely could use some renovatin’. Liebman is a master of urban infill. If this project goes off well, he is likely to bring investment money, skill and ingenuity to revitalization efforts in Tacoma. Cross your fingers. PLUS 2
Owners of Proctor Safeway have unveiled a new design for the location, including a new facade, windows, 10,000 square feet, a bakery, Starbucks, and more sushi. Apparently a bunch of rich folk were pissed about the plans announced early last year, which included stretching out a huge, featureless wall, pretty much to the curb. We’ll give ’em a plus 1 if those same people can be obnoxious enough to convince the owners of the Hilltop Safeway on 12th to throw some money at renovations there. Seriously, Safeway, it’s time. PLUS 1
Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist, once said, “There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness”: A Tacoma police officer fatally shot a man after he struggled with another officer at the Spanish Hills apartment complex; a Northeast Tacoma man fatally shot his daughter’s on-again, off-again boyfriend in Northeast Tacoma; a man being beaten and shot at a Parkland home; a 14-year-old boy was shot at Harvard Elementary School after a drug deal went bad. … Enough, already. We’re sad. MINUS 6
Disorganization seemed to be the bone of contention among many of the new Sixth Avenue Farmers Market vendors. Rumor has it that vendor input was not considered during implementation and that the current endeavors of the new farmers market are up for re-vamping. We like the market and hope to see these issues resolved. MINUS 1
On Tuesday, July 29, Pierce County announced the cancellation of preventative chipsealing maintenance on 48 lane miles of road thanks to a liquid asphalt shortage. Originally 70 lane miles of chipsealing maintenance was planned, but after completing scheduled work in the Purdy area the rest was called off when it was learned Pierce County’s asphalt supplier had run dry. Not only that, but when liquid asphalt is available, the price has almost tripled over the last two years. Asphalt is made with oil, don’t you know. And all our roads are made of it. The plot thickens. MINUS 2
Wapato Lake was treated for all that annoying and toxic algae last Friday. An aluminum-based chemical mixture was added to the lake, and within a day the algae was already decreasing. It was pretty cool. There was only one problem: all the fish were floating to the top dead. Even more disturbing, Tacoma, Metro Parks and a water monitoring company have only guesses at this point about what may have caused the aquatic genocide. And they don’t seem very gung-ho about holding the Minneapolis-based company that applied the chemical treatment accountable. The least we can all do is pour out some of our Old E this weekend for all our dead fish hommies. MINUS 3
Total Pluses: 3
Total Minuses: 12
This Weeks Total: MINUS 9
Last Weeks Total: PLUS 1
User comments
submitted 12:08 on Aug 1, 2008 by DeekThis section is really good except the last paragraph. Actually, this whole section is the best idea in this rag, with all it's esoterica. Anyway, It's obvious that the aluminum-based chemical mixture is the culprit right? Making a funny out of Tacoma's vers"ion of Bhopal is lame. Let me guess the "water monitoring company" has connection with the water treatment company. And what is the name of the Minneapolis company? Do you own shares in their stock or something?
submitted 09:53 on Aug 1, 2008 by DeekWell, the Tacoma Weekly has an excellent article on this catastrophe and isn't afraid to tell the public the name of the "he Minneapolis-based company", it is Teemark. They were the only bidders on the contract to do this...why am I telling you, just read the article.
