{"id":2763,"date":"2004-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2004\/03\/01\/tacoma-teams-up-with-tribe\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:25:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:25:02","slug":"tacoma-teams-up-with-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2004\/03\/01\/tacoma-teams-up-with-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tacoma teams up with tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reaction wasn&#8217;t because it was the Bollore group that had secured the contract but that it had happened apparently behind closed doors without other parties being invited to tender &#8211; an attitude that prompted the local Chamber of Commence to write in protest to the World Bank. It seems that the agreement was reached between Bollore and the port authority but local observers believe it is likely to have needed presidential support as well.<\/p>\n<p>The port and the tribe will work together to develop and market properties for maritime use on the East Blair, including land where the tribe&#8217;s Emerald Queen Casino now operates. The tribe will move those operations out of the Port industrial area. The agreement also calls for the tribe to support the vacation of a portion of Alexander Avenue, required for the Port to complete construction of the new 171-acre (Phase 1) Evergreen Terminal.<\/p>\n<p>To prepare both the Blair Waterway and backup lands for potential future container shipping activities, the Port will widen portions of the waterway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Tacoma Commission and the Puyallup Tribe Council have signed an economic development agreement, setting the stage for additional maritime expansion on the East Blair Waterway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2765,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions\/2765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}