Site image update and great comment
Nice day in Tacoma on 4/6/2020
A greet comment about the Ship Lofts project from Tim D. in response to our DJC Sustainability article:
“I loved the article! The only thing that worries me is it says that one of the aims is helping “address Tacoma’s growing housing shortage.” I hope that this doesn’t backfire with City Council!
This project is obviously catered to the very wealthy, and that’s totally OK! It’s good to be honest about that. 🙂 Plus, it’s ONE building. People have no need whatsoever to freak out. 🙂 It’s housing for a few folks that have never had an *option* like this in Tacoma (or anywhere else in the Northwest!). It’s an unbelievably incredible project!
Plus, the REAL shortage that this project is addressing is that of a *signature project* on THE most important piece of still-developable urban waterfront real estate on the **entire West Coast**!! THAT is the void that this will fill, beautifully, literally!! 🙂
Plus, Ship Lofts will attract MANY $millions in *incredibly badly needed* INVESTMENT in downtown Tacoma. And a city can ONLY heal from the *center outward*. Thus, it will literally be an investment in ALL of Tacoma, by putting it on the map and enabling people to really SEE the city (and actually visit it!!) for the first time in their lives!
The City of Destiny still needs a MASSIVE amount of help, on sooo many levels. But the POTENTIAL is there! There’s truly NO more beautifully situated city on Earth!! And Ship Lofts will help people actually SEE this for the first time. Thus, we’ll create generations of new philanthropists, as well as VERY staunch protectors of the super sensitive ecosystem.
City councils are notoriously AWFUL when it comes to looking at their cities as investing in their potential. They look for simple projects that deliver quick hits of short-term revenue (and then decades of massive losses). They need to see Ship Lofts as serving a critically important role in helping clean up and beautify the waterfront–and thus improving the entire city, one block at a time, radiating out from downtown and the waterfront.”
Tim D
Thank you so much, David! 😊 The City needs to think of this as a critically important *investment* in the *entire* community. Building deeply affordable housing requires a ton of PUBLIC dollars. And signature projects like this, along with increased visitors and investments in downtown, are *crucial* for providing the increased tax revenue that the City desperately needs in order to give back those newfound public dollars in the form of helping those most in need.