Business

Gig Harbor Now reporters provide information about where people can eat, shop and seek professional services, which businesses are opening or closing, and explain local trends and their relation to the national economy.

Photo of Burley Lagoon and public notice sign about proposal to farm geoducks

Proposed Burley Lagoon geoduck farm upsets neighbors

Oct 22, 2021 | By: Ted Kenney

Converting the 25.5-acre farm site from Manila clams and oyster to geoducks wouldn’t significantly change the tidelands, according to the draft environmental impact statement. Opponents of the plan say this claim is slanted and they look forward to refuting it.

People planting geoducks in tubes on the mudflats

Public input sought on proposed geoduck farm in Burley Lagoon

Oct 09, 2021 | By: Ed Friedrich

Taylor Shellfish Farms would replace Manila clam and oyster beds on the 25.5-acre site with geoduck clam farming.

Photo of the front of the Gig Harbor Chamber of Commerce building.

Battson named as Gig Harbor Chamber president/CEO

Oct 04, 2021 | By: Ed Friedrich

Miriam Battson replaces Warren Zimmerman as the chamber’s new president and CEO.

Heavy equipment is at work along 36th Street creating the ground for a mini-storage facility.

Mini-storage units being built off of 36th Street

Sep 30, 2021 | By: Ed Friedrich

The 106,000-square-foot facility near the Tacoma Screw fulfillment center is expected to be completed in about six months.

Boatyard offering free tours; Marketplace Grill relocating

Sep 17, 2021 | By: Ed Friedrich

Eddon Boatyard will offer free tours Saturday and on other dates; Marketplace Grille is searching for a location that better fits its needs.

Ginger Henderson displays the front of the new Metropolitan Market that she will manage.

Metropolitan Market manager leads verbal tour of store

Sep 16, 2021 | By: Charlee Glock-Jackson

The new Metropolitan Market, which opens Oct. 7, will feature three sitting areas and be like a restaurant in a grocery store, says manager Ginger Henderson.

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