Stadium Way w/ View Terraces? (11. April 2007, 23:29 by Derek Young) ~ Who Has A Story To Tell?
We’ve driven up Stadium Way for years and have wondered what we could do to remove the chain link and make it a valuable part of community once again. I’ll be honest, nothing I imagined was quite like this…
From the fine folks at 505 Broadway:
Another concept that may not be part of the St. Helens LID, but may be part of a federal grant to improve Stadium Way is shown here. An improvement is scheduled for Stadium Way after the St. Helens LID is complete and will do many of the same things. The concept below shows and overhead sketch with the view side towards the water on the bottom of the page. This concept outlines the possibility of having much wider sidewalks and view terraces cut into the side of the hill below Stadium Way. All in all, there are a lot of great improvements heading our way.
Federal grant? Who knows something?
(Thank you, Erik)
Link to 505 Broadway
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Snazzy. I do like it, though it’s yet another expensive condo development. Now when are we going to get some first class office space to provide some high-paying jobs so we can afford to live here? Aren’t these developers worried about the Walmart coming downtown? Who’s going to pay half a million or more to live where the only major retail store is a Walmart? I don’t see it.
1 | Posted by Lundy | Apr 12, 10:08 AM
I remember walking along the sidewalk on Stadium Way back in 2001. Then, the woods below were filled with homeless camps and chain-link fence was broken in many places. Stadium Way is probably the least pedestrian-oriented street in the entire downtown area. Cars roar up and down it, and there is almost no commerce to speak of, only entrances to the parking garages of the new developments. I hope the LID addresses not only the sidewalks, but also installs some traffic calming methods. Maybe the new condo owners won’t have to walk all the way down to the Foss now; they can simply enjoy the view from up on the bluff.
2 | Posted by drizell | Apr 12, 10:58 AM
Fixing up Stadium Way makes a lot of sense — it could be a nice, scenic pedestrian path to downtown. There also should be a bike lane on that street — it’s one of the more gradual uphill routes near downtown, so it ought to be bike-friendly.
3 | Posted by Michael G. | Apr 12, 11:06 AM
Stadium Way is one of the few streets from the original plan for Tacoma that was done by Frederick Olmstead which followed the topography of the city. The plan was nixed by the Northern Pacific Railroad because they wanted a grid plan with rectagular blocks-tragedy. A redesigned Stadium Way could be spectacular.
4 | Posted by michael | Apr 12, 12:17 PM
The little curving white thing on the left is the offramp from 705 to give you a sense of place. The white areas are the positive spaces—the areas that are to be covered by buildings. The green areas between the positive spaces are the negative spaces— the streets and sidewalks with new trees and lighting, as proposed by the LID. The promenade is the curvy line across the middle of the drawing, with the green area being the hillside below. The arrows appear to represent existing or planned mid-block pedestrian connections between the neighborhood on the hill and the promenade below.
7 | Posted by drizell | Apr 12, 02:10 PM
expensive condos combined with a walmart would ultimately appeal to retirees. Tacoma will eventually become one giant convalescent home.
8 | Posted by RR Anderson | Apr 12, 03:19 PM
Bingo parlors, we need more bingo parlors. And it wouldn’t hurt if the Puyallup tribe could put in a satellite casino in the neighborhood. Ah, the smell of Gold Bond in the morning.
10 | Posted by Crenshaw Sepulveda | Apr 12, 03:40 PM
The city of Tacoma applied for a grant to improve Stadium Way and they got it. The city still is making an effort to get more money or leverage the grant they got, so they can do as much as possible. It sounds like the timing will come sometime after the St. Helens LID is complete.
11 | Posted by Ken Abbott | Apr 12, 03:47 PM
The number of condo projects scheduled is staggering. Has anyone suggested where all these eager buyers of half-million dollar apartments are coming from? Or is this Tacoma’s version of Field of Dreams?
12 | Posted by beerBoy | Apr 13, 07:22 AM
The above ilustration is very vague. With such a lack of context, it’s difficult to form opinions.
Although, this did make me remember riding my bike as a kid along the trails that used to traverse the hillside. What fun! In high school, I remember heading down to those same trails below Stadium High and partying at “the huts”! Oh, the good old days…
But land slides came and Metro Parks let the trails go. And then the transients moved in. Very sad.
It could be an amazing asset again.
Hello, Metro?
14 | Posted by morgan | Apr 13, 10:20 PM
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