Last week, City Club announced a forum with two business leaders discussing their ideas for “bridging the ‘vitality gap’ between the dynamic UWT/museum district on one end, and the lively Ruston Way on the opposite end.” This week, club executive director Erik Hanberg disavowed the statement faster than a tourist hanging a U-turn after mistakenly driving to the north end of downtown. via thenewstribune.com For anyone who’s wondering, my speedy disavowal is pasted below. It was an unfortunate oversight that let that sentence into the press release and I really am wishing I’d been able to catch it ahead of Read more…

City Club's lunch this week will be with Janine Terrano (Topia Technology), Jim Merritt (Merritt Architecture), and CR Roberts (The News Tribune). The topic is downtown business. "Solutions only" is the tag line. I think it's going to be a pretty great lunch. RSVP by the end of Monday (office@cityclubtacoma.org). $22 for members, $30 for non-members. And if you're not a member, and haven't been before, mention you saw it here and we can invite you in at the member rate). Our last program was our dinner on 7/7. The speaker was Ziad Abusamha, a trustee at the Islamic Center. It Read more…