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Marce Edwards is the business editor. She has been at The News Tribune for seven years and has written about technology and big businesses in the South Sound including Weyerhaeuser and Russell. Before moving to Tacoma, she worked at The Idaho Statesman in Boise. She is a Northwest native who likes to garden and refuses to use an umbrella. She lives in Tacoma with her husband and two kids.
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Kelly Kearsley has been a business reporter at The News Tribune since 2005. She covers the Port of Tacoma and international trade. Being born and raised in Spokane she’s used to living in cities with inferiority complexes and, in fact, prefers it. Prior to working at The News Tribune, she spent three years as a reporter for The Bulletin in Bend, Oregon and another year working stints for The Associated Press and Seattle Times. She graduated from Pacific Lutheran University. She lives in Tacoma with her husband and miniature schnauzer.
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By the time most of us attend the grand opening of a new shopping center or development, the decisions have all been made for us.
A mix of tenants is already in place that we may like or may find boring or uninviting.
Tacoma developer Mike Cohen wants to turn that tenant selection process on its head.
He's asking Tacomans what kinds of activities, what merchants or services they'd like to see in his new 97-acre Point Ruston near Point Defiance Park.
Cohen is already building a mid-rise condo building on the tract, the former site of the Asarco copper smelter, and expensive view homes on the hill above the former industrial site, but much of the remainder of the site remains a blank tablet. He has signed a deal for a Silver Cloud hotel in the community center, he has no other public retail commitments.
In more prosperous times, many of those development and leasing decisions would have already been made, but given the slowdown in financing and retail activity, Cohen has the luxury of time.
If you want to let him know, go to the Point Ruston Web site here and take the survey. Prizes for participants include Ruston Way restaurant diners, Point Defiance Zoo memberships, a Silver Cloud overnight and even a personal tour from Cohen.
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