creative use for vacant space

 

Spaceworks Tacoma


 
Spaceworks Tacoma is a joint initiative of the City of Tacoma, Shunpike and the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber of Commerce. The project is designed to activate empty storefronts in downtown Tacoma with art and creative enterprise.

Property owners donate their vacant spaces and program participants transform them into dynamic points of interest with creative energy and artistic enterprise. 

Spaceworks Tacoma nurtures the vision of a revitalized downtown with:

   1   Artscapes (temporary installations and performances)
   2   Artist Residencies
   3   Creative Enterprise
   4   Pop-Up Events

Spaceworks Tacoma is up and running. Take your own self-guided tour and see what our artists are working on. Click here for more information and a map.

 

 

 
 

Questions?


206.905.1026 or
programs@Shunpike.org
  

 

Spaceworks Tacoma is a joint initiative of:

 

Thanks to our participating properties:

11th & Broadway
     Tacoma Contemporary

950 Pacific Avenue - 
     Neil Walter (property manager)
     Simon Johnson LLC
     Ted Johnson and Herb Simon (owners)

1114 Pacific Avenue - 
    
     Steve Shaub, George and Al Howe, Eric Cederstrand
(owners)

913 & 915 Pacific Avenue - 
     Neil Walter (property manager)
    
     LinMar Management, Inc. 
     Jeff Wohler (owner)

904 - 912 Broadway - 
          
     Music Box Associates
     George and Al Howe, Eric Cederstrand (owners)
     Shannon Tiegs (property manager)

All participating properties except 11th & Broadway are available for lease.

 

 

Window signage donated by Signs By Tomorrow

 

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Spaceworks in the news

Broadway's open-air art gallery - Weekly Volcano, August 19, 2010

Mimi Allin goes to the beach at Tollefson Plaza, every afternoon this week, in "Seaside Opera" - Tacoma News Tribune blog, August 18, 2010

Performance piece "Seaside Opera" arms adolescents - the Spew, August 16, 2010

'Artscapes' transforms Broadway into open-air art gallery
 - Tacoma Weekly, August 11, 2010 

Spaceworks creates "artscapes" in Tacoma windows
 - Weekly Volcano, August 4, 2010

Art spelled out in Tollefson Plaza
 - Tacoma Daily Index, August 4, 2010

Wooden ABC's become public display in Tacoma
 - Tacoma News Tribune, August 1, 2010

5 art installations in Woolworth windows in Tacoma
 - Tacoma News Tribune, July 30, 2010

Art block party
 - Tacoma Weekly, July 28, 2010

The art of retail in downtown Tacoma
 - Tacoma News Tribune, July 25, 2010

The first "wave" of creativity has hit Tacoma
 - Weekly Volcano, July 15, 2010

Spaceworks project puts temporary art in vacant Tacoma spaces
 - Tacoma News Tribune, July 11, 2010

Spaceworks Tacoma brings windowfront art to downtown
 - Exit 133, July 7, 2010

Spaceworks Tacoma block party July 29
 - Tacoma Daily Index, July 6, 2010

Artists to use vacant retail space
 - KPLU, April 26, 2010

Filling an Artistic Void
 - Tacoma Weekly, April 22, 2010

Spaceworks Tacoma aims to fill empty storefronts
 - Tacoma News Tribune, April 21, 2010

Artists invited to Spaceworks Tacoma meeting April 28
 - Tacoma Daily Index, April 21, 2010

Mecca Theater begins new life
 - Tacoma News Tribune, April 1, 2010

Spaceworks Tacoma on King 5 News, March 25, 2010
Correction: King 5 News mischaracterized the percentage of vacancies in Tacoma by about three times; it is 7% not "20% and rising."

(Creative) Space Available: Pilot project pairs artists, vacant storefronts
 - Tacoma Daily Index, March 12, 2010