
Imagine walking into a dank dark basement in a 110 year old building downtown and turning on the lights to find this eerie and surreal scene. That’s what happened to me recently while working on an interview for a Sun story.
Downtown
Tacoma Underground: Never Never Land Figures
February 15th, 2008 · 63 Comments
Small Worlds Theory and Livable Downtown
January 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Nerd Blog: Small Worlds Theory and Livable Downtown By Paul Sparks Part One: Short, quircky, amateur commentaries on “Small Worlds Theory” and its relationship to the “Livable Community” of Downtown Tacoma. What is “Small Worlds”? Small worlds is a theory of maximum connectivity. It describes a real world phenomenon found in all types of effective [...]
Half Moon Yard
December 4th, 2007 · 7 Comments
Its Time for Tacoma to Repair its Maimed Streetscape By Rebuilding the North Park Plaza Parking Garage
November 2nd, 2007 · 10 Comments

Perhaps no other action by the City of Tacoma has caused so much long term damage to the downtown streetscape as much as the construction of the North and South Plaza Parking garages.
