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.

Pierce County offers holiday shuttle connecting Key Peninsula, Gig Harbor

Nov 24, 2023 | By:

Pierce County will contract with private operator Around the Sound to operate a shuttle service connecting the Key Peninsula to attractions in Gig Harbor on weekends during the 2023 holiday season. The county hopes that the temporary service will serve as a pilot program that leads to improved transit service on the Key Peninsula, according

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Obituary: Dick Shaw, Gig Harbor business figure and owner of Pleasurecraft Marina

Nov 13, 2023 | By:

Richard Henry “Dick” Shaw, owner of the Pleasurecraft Marina and a prominent Gig Harbor businessman for decades, died in Richland on Oct. 27. He was 84 years old.  Gig Harbor business leader Shaw was a business leader in the Tacoma area since the 1960s, according to an obituary published by the Kitsap Sun newspaper of

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Gig Harbor Real Estate: Despite high mortgage rates, home prices tick up in October

Nov 09, 2023 | By: Alison Paoli

It was a scary sight in October when mortgage rates spiked to a 23-year year high, causing the housing market to slow to a December-like crawl a few months ahead of schedule. But, while the historically high mortgage rates are keeping buyers and sellers at bay and impacting the volume of sales, they are not

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Gene Juarez opening in Uptown Gig Harbor on Nov. 11

Nov 06, 2023 | By:

A new Gene Juarez Salons & Spa in the Uptown Gig Harbor shopping complex will open Saturday, Nov. 11, the company announced Monday. It will be the salon’s 11th location in Washington state. Previously, the closest Gene Juarez locations were in Tacoma and Silverdale. The 2,300-square-foot Gig Harbor salon is taking reservations. A news release

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Editor’s column: No better time than now to support Now

Nov 01, 2023 | By:

More people are reading Gig Harbor Now these days than at any other time in our two-plus years as a nonprofit digital newspaper. We have a new-and-improved calendar (more about that later) and a fun community announcements section. Our reporters are keeping an eye on new housing developments, covering this month’s election, and probing the

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Commencement Bank eyes move to former Harbor General Store building

Oct 31, 2023 | By:

Commencement Bank, which opened a loan production office in the Peninsula Shopping Center on Judson Street in August, recently received clearance from federal regulators to operate a full-service branch there.  That won’t be its permanent home, though. The Tacoma-based regional bank plans to move to the former Harbor General Store building on Pioneer Way after

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Business Spotlight: Community and creativity at the heart of Local Whimsy

Oct 30, 2023 | By:

A passion for community and craft is the inspiration behind Gig Harbor’s latest retail store to open on Harborview Drive, Local Whimsy. Local Makers founder Caasi Dickens and Salena Ausburn, plant stylist and owner of  Whimsy Plant Co, have joined forces to offer more than just a marketplace for locally crafted products and plants. They’ve

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Rosedale man beamed final movie at downtown theater

Oct 24, 2023 | By:

A teenage Jim Langhelm manned the projectors the final two years before the Roxy Theater on Harborview Drive was closed in 1958.

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Notice of 2023 Annual Meeting

Oct 20, 2023 | By:

Gig Harbor Now, a Washington Nonprofit Corporation, gives notice of its annual meeting to be held at the Summit Tower Community Room, 6563 MacDonald Avenue, Gig Harbor, WA on Wednesday, November 8, 2023, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. The Board of Directors of the corporation and the Editor of Gig Harbor Now, a nonvoting

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KettleFish restaurant closing after about a year in Gig Harbor

Oct 19, 2023 | By:

KettleFish, which opened on Pioneer Way to great acclaim a little over a year ago, will close in the coming days, co-owner Dave Montoure said on Wednesday, Oct. 18.  Montoure said a combination of factors contributed to the decision to close the restaurant. They include rising costs, a sluggish economy and an abrupt seasonal downturn

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