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A91008-3
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- 1955-05-27 (Creation)
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The Tacoma City Lights Administration Building, also known as the Tacoma Public Utilities Center, opened in 1953. The controversial $2,600,000 Public Utility operating headquarters was felt to be oversized and overpriced for the department's needs. Many felt that the building should be used as the new County-City building as well as the Utilities Department headquarters, eliminating the expense of designing and building a second building. The Utilities Administration building had three times as much space as Tacoma's Old City Hall. Public Utilities successfully fought to keep the building for their own use, and it is still being used.
Tacoma Dept. of Public Utilities, Light Division (Tacoma); Silas E. Nelsen Architects (Tacoma); Public utility companies--Tacoma; Facades--Tacoma--1950-1960;