The developer of Point Ruston, an urban village located along a mile-long stretch of the Commencement Bay shoreline and on the former Asarco smelter site, announced this week it has begun construction on the project’s first mixed-use building. Copperline Condominiums, the mixed-use building now under construction, will include a total of 143 residences, 25,000
EDB Annual Meeting: The economy, regional winners and successful partnership ON MARCH 1, 201 7, leaders from across the region came together at the Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center for a progress report on the EDB’s recruitment and retention work, unveiling of the Excellent 10, announcement of this year’s Golden Shovel Award winner, and to hear an economic prognosis from
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Add Point Ruston to the skyrocketing real estate market frenzy in Tacoma. The first developed phase of Point Ruston, which includes the Copperline and Century apartments (268 units total) and various properties that now house businesses or restaurants, has sold for nearly $101.3 million to CWS Capital Partners of Newport Beach, Calif. The company on its
A former Weyerhaeuser Co. executive and his wife have become the first residents of a redeveloped former industrial site near Tacoma’s Point Defiance Park. Bill and Polly Blankenship’s home is the first of what developer Mike Cohen hopes will be hundreds of residential units on the site of the former Asarco copper smelter. The
TACOMA, Wash. – One of the Northwest’s crown jewels sits atop what was once one of the more polluted sites in the United States. Point Ruston is a waterfront village within a larger community that is drawing people from throughout Pierce Couny. The site was a copper smelter dating back to
Real Estate Buzz: Perseverance pays off at Point Ruston It's taken a lot of hard work to get the Point Ruston project to this point. The 97-acre site along the Tacoma waterfront was an Asarco copper smelting plant for almost a century before MC Construction Consultants bought it in 2006. Millions were spent on
After a few months of marching in place, construction activity is again moving forward at Point Ruston, the billion-dollar redevelopment of the former Asarco copper smelter site near Tacoma’s Point Defiance Park. “Within the next few months, you’ll be seeing a forest of construction cranes at Point Ruston,” said Mike Cohen, the development’s managing
Point Ruston is a 97-acre mixed-use site situated on nearly a mile of Puget Sound shoreline near downtown Tacoma. Standing in the footprint of the old Asarco copper smelting plant, Point Ruston is being redeveloped into a scenic Built Green neighborhood with apartments, condominiums, restaurants, retail, entertainment and public space. Early phases have been completed, but plenty of work
For the ever-optimistic Mike Cohen, managing partner of the Tacoma’s largest mixed use development project, Point Ruston, reality is finally matching his dreams. Construction activity at the site of the former Asarco copper smelter near Point Defiance Park is moving swiftly into the development’s second phase as Cohen tries to meet a growing demand
