^ I would agree. There's a lot to Tacoma and much potential.
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Can Tacoma’s new Amtrak station spur development in the city’s Dome District?
By John Gillie
Staff writer
August 16, 2014
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/0...ml?sp=/99/261/
When Amtrak three decades ago announced it was shutting down operations at Tacoma’s grand but crumbling and oversized Union Station and replacing it with a pedestrian brick box of a building on Puyallup Avenue, critics and civic leaders weren’t happy.
The new building, then a better, more affordable fit for the volume of passenger train service through Tacoma, was derided as an “Amshack” and called unsuitable as rail gateway to the “City of Destiny.”
That move left Tacoma, a city that now has more Amtrak rail passenger traffic than Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis-St.Paul and Miami, with perhaps the most modest and ordinary station among the cities on Amtrak’s Cascade Corridor between Vancouver, B.C., and Portland.
Now, the impending rerouting of passenger trains from the traditional waterfront route through Tacoma to a route that passes near the Tacoma Dome, through South Tacoma, Lakewood and Dupont before rejoining the main line in Nisqually, has given Tacoma yet another opportunity to create the kind of imaginative, welcoming and functional station the community says it wants and needs.
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