Village at Harbor Hill still waiting on an anchor-tenant grocer
Jun 13, 2024The Village at Harbor Hill developers had no “amazing news” at a community meeting, but a Trader Joe’s representative was in the crowd.
Short-term rentals grew slowly in first year under new regulations, Gig Harbor officials say
Apr 15, 2024Could it be that after an 18-month moratorium on new short-term rentals (STRs) in Gig Harbor, a sometimes acrimonious public debate on the topic, and a full year of these lodgings operating under new rules that seemed to satisfy neither critics nor proponents, the city’s STR businesses are growing at a slow to moderate pace
Harbor Farms shutters Rosedale Street venue, buys larger North Rosedale site
Apr 03, 2024A farm-oriented amusement venue that made a splash when it operated for a few weekends last fall has closed its doors (or rather, farmyard gates) for good at its Rosedale Street location. For sale signs popped up along its split-rail fence earlier this month, surprising passersby. Harbor Farms, the creation of Gig Harbor pizzeria and
Geoduck farm hearings postponed two months due to opposition leader’s departure
Mar 19, 2024Hearings on Taylor Shellfish’s proposed geoduck farm in Burley Lagoon have been postponed until May.
Gig Harbor plans $2 million roundabout at 56th Street and 38th Avenue
Mar 14, 2024Many people living near the junction of 56th Street NW and 38th Avenue NW, at the western edge of Gig Harbor city limits, have been there long enough to remember when it was a country crossroads. Traffic at this spot is not bad now. But when city officials look at the intersection in light of
Free legal pop-ups debut this week in Gig Harbor
Feb 12, 2024Legal advice may not, at first, seem as fundamental a human need as food or medical care. But Bob Vollbracht, volunteer leader of the Gig Harbor Key Peninsula Housing-Homeless Coalition, has seen the profound benefit of free legal services to low-income clients shaken by situations such as domestic violence, child custody disputes or looming evictions.
Pierce County weighs stripping urban growth designation from Purdy
Jan 29, 2024If Purdy ever truly dreamed of an urban future, that possibility may be slipping away. The tiny agglomeration of businesses, schools, homes and utility company maintenance yards at the head of Henderson Bay, just over Gig Harbor’s northern border, has long been designated an urban growth area (UGA) under the Pierce County Comprehensive Plan. That’s
Proponents, foes of Burley Lagoon geoduck farm to face off at March 2024 hearings
Dec 07, 2023Parties to a dispute over a proposed 25.5 acre geoduck farm in Burley Lagoon have until March 2024 to hone arguments and marshal evidence. That’s when Taylor Shellfish, which seeks to launch the controversial aquaculture operation, will face off against a coalition of environmental groups and neighbors in arguments before the Pierce County Hearing Examiner
Developments would bring more than 150 residences to Swede Hill
Nov 28, 2023Add northern Swede Hill to the list of Gig Harbor locales slated for accelerating suburban growth. West of Highway 16, on land sloping down to Burnham Drive NW and McCormick Creek, two local developers are shepherding separate proposals through the city’s permitting process that would add more than 150 residences on land now occupied by
The sinking of the Walrus in 1963 was a disaster averted
Oct 26, 2023Have you heard about the sinking of the Walrus? It was only one of the greatest maritime near-disasters in Puget Sound history. There’s no memorial to it, as not-quite-calamities don’t usually get one. But among the survivors, and those with them at Catholic Youth Organization’s (CYO) Camp Blanchet on Raft Island in the summer of