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Mon. August 27, 2007, 07:20am PDT
Parking lot of dreams
If someone told you, fair Tacoma, that the LeMay car museum promised to dazzle anyone passing through Tacoma was to start construction this winter, would you believe them? Well don't. At least not entirely. If the City Council agrees to adjust their commitment of money for a grand tribute to American cars toward a lesser collectors center construction may just kick off soon. Even in this reduced form, I'll believe it when I see it.
Don't get me wrong, I want this attraction as much any anyone since I stumbled across the idea of LeMay while out searching for a freshwater spring marked in a USGS map and found myself at a grand property in Spanaway that holds a portion of his collection. It dazzled my imagination to learn that one family, one man gathered together so many amazing cars together of which I know nothing but can surely appreciate their beauty if nothing else.
A focus on autos in this way would be a welcome attraction that would encourage visitors not into our museums or our parks or at least give families the option of splitting up a bit while here. For everything to work out well efforts between the LeMay construction, local SoDo businesses, and potential Sounder rail construction need to be tightly coordinated to help preserve any progress that's been made in the area.
Is something (e.g. the collectors center) better than nothing or should LeMay just hold out until the full dream can be realized? The News Tribune seems to think so but do you?
Mon. August 27, 2007, 07:08pm PDT
Storefront murals unveiled at Music & Murals Sep. 8
There are some beautiful murals around Hilltop as I was happy to notice while out with the Photo Gang a couple weekends ago. According to the following press release, however, I'm going to have to update that murals map I've been toying with.
Tacoma Works announces the unveiling of its Storefront Mural project in conjunction with the Music & Murals festival taking place Saturday, September 8th at People's Park from 11am-5pm.
The project grew out of a community workshop held last year which was sponsored by the Safe Streets Weed and Seed program in which neighborhood projects were presented by former head of Seattle's Department of Neighborhoods, Jim Diers - also the son of Hilltop resident and activist Hermann Diers. The Storefront Murals grew out of a desire to add vibrancy and color to the business district as well as establish a vision for the future. The concept of the project is to place painted storefront scenes over boarded up and vacant buildings. After a series of setbacks, including the demolition of the group's work space downtown (in the former UWT Dawg Shed building), work on the murals is being finished in the Hilltop neighborhood within walking distance to the actual storefronts that will play home for the murals until the buildings are sold or leased. The scope of the project covers four storefronts located along MLK Jr. Way between 11th and 13th Street and has involved over a dozen volunteers working for over a year.
Link to Tacoma Works and Music & Murals
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