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From "On the Waterfront" in Washington State Magazine, Winter 2008/09
By Hannelore Sudermann. Photos by Ingrid Barrentine.
"Twenty years ago, the City Club of Tacoma approached the city with a plan to unify the waterfront and build a walking path from the Tacoma Dome to Point Defiance. The painstakingly researched report urged that the entire waterfront be redesigned as a people place. Lara Hermann '95 was thrilled when a city hall worker handed her the document. 'It was like a present just lands in your lap,' she says."
Read more in the Winter 2008/09 issue of Washington State Magazine at wsm.wsu.edu