A stop along Tacoma’s revitalized Ruston Way, the expansion of Dickman Mill Park serves as a testament to how waterfront development can balance history, environmental resilience and community ...

The first of approximately 1,200 pilings are being pulled up this week at the site of the old Dickman Mill, on Friday, Nov. 22, 2024 in Tacoma, Wash. (Brian Hayes/bhayes@thenewstribune.com) Crews have ...

A project is officially underway to remove the toxic remnants of the historic Dickman Mill along Tacoma’s waterfront. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Aquatic Derelict Structures Program is ...

Walkers along Tacoma’s Ruston Way and sunbathers at Titlow Beach have seen them for decades: pilings — the aquatic cousins of telephone poles. Once used to support wharves and piers, many of the ...

Crews have begun pulling the first of some 1,200 polluted pilings that once supported a sawmill on Tacoma’s waterfront. The site is one of “The Filthy Four,” according to the state Department of ...