16 images. Tacoma Bldg. Potter & Merrill, arch. Hurley-Mason Co., contr. -twelve stories, 194 ft. -first occupied by the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Tacoma Commercial Club -adjoining Weyerhaeuser Annex/ Weyerhaeuser Bldg. built in 1956 (SEE: 1015 A ST.) -remodeled in 1979 -partial plans at TPL
TDL 7/12/1908 p.22 (mention)
TDL 4/18/1909 p.37 Site ready for office building
TDL 9/5/1909 p.36 Secure designs by competition
TDL 9/19/1909 p.43 Enthusiasm for building project
TDL 10/3/1909 p.43 Seven firms submit plans
TDL 10/12/1909 p.4 Select plans for building (sketch)
TDL 10/31/1909 p.40 Preparing plans for skyscraper
TDL 1/2/1910 p.38 (progress)
TDL 2/27/1910 p.37 Weather keeps building back
TDL 3/6/1910 p.39 (il)
TDL 3/20/1910 p.40 (progress) p.43 Big hole goes down 40 feet
TDL 3/27/1910 p.38 Making bids on A Street pile
TDL 6/26/1910 p.38 Ready to start another skyscraper
TDL 6/29/1910 p.39 (progress)
TDL 7/24/1910 p.39 (progress)
TDL 8/7/1910 p.37 (progress)
TDL 10/9/1910 p.40 One story a week
TDL 11/13/1910 p.44 (name selected)
TDL 12/25/1910 p.33 (il under construction)
TDL 1/1/1911 p.29 (il)
TDL 4/9/1911 p.37 (progress)
TDL 5/14/1911 p.37 That "V" in "Tacoma Bvilding" is a "U" (il)
TDL 7/2/1911 p.25 (ad for rental space in bldg.) (il)
TDL 1/9/1912 Suppl. p.4 Nearly ready (description of interior floors)
TNT 1/6/1963 p.A10 Dedication set here for first stocked shelter ("first stocked public fallout shelter in the state"
TNT 1/8/1963 p.14 Weyerhaeuser building new CD shelter (il)
TNT 1/19/1964 p.B9 Ben Cheney (Cheney Lumber Co.) found use for sawmill waste; he founded far-flung business empire (il of wooden bas-relief mural by artist Art McKellips)
TNT 9/12/1965 p.D19 Weyerhaeuser plans remodeling at headquarters
TNT 5/22/1966 p.C19 Wood sets off new lobby (interior il of Weyerhaeuser lobby on 10th floor)
TNT 2/19/1967 p.D17 Unit hoisted at Tacoma Building (il of air conditioning unit)
TNT 12/18/1977 p.F11 Redesigned building will cut energy use (remodeling by Burr Associates, arch.) (il)
TNT 7/16/1978 High hoist (il of cooling equipment being hoisted to roof)
TNT 11/9/1978 Up, up, up and away went the "flying" carpet (il of carpet being hoisted into window)
TNT 4/1/1979 Weyerhaeuser modernizes its old headquarters (remodeling by Donald Burr, arch.) (interior il)
TNT 8/19/1979 A Street undergoes a transformation; Weyerhaeuser adds park, parking downtown 338.973 P83Pt 1918 p.22 (il);1919 p.68 (il); 1921 p.28 (il); 1924 p.58 (il) 720.28 T119TR p.53 (rehab c.1977 by Burr Associates, arch. and Hoffman Construction Co., contr.) 979.72 H91 Vol.II opp. p.168 (il), p.280 979.778 H628H Vol.I p.440 979.7788 G1351D p.61 (il) ----- Labor Ready
TNT 7/29/1999 p.A1 Downtown Tacoma gains HQ; Labor Ready is buying Weyerhaeuser building T.Daily Index 8/3/1999 p.1 Labor Ready, Inc. plans its purchase of Weyerhaeuser's Tacoma Building for new HQ (il)
TNT 12/21/1999 p.D6 Labor Ready getting ready (remodeling by Jim Castino / Pacific Design Group Tacoma, arch.) Business Examiner 12/11/2000 p.23 Labor Ready renovates, opens retail space (renovation/remodeling by Pacific Design Group, arch. and Rushforth Construction, contr.) (sketch)
TNT 1/16/2001 p.B10 Downtown treasures reappearing Business Examiner 4/2/2001 p.1 Labor Ready moves into its new corporate headquarters