After failed acquisition, undeveloped Eagles Ridge parcel still on PenMet’s’s radar screen
Oct 02, 2024The Eagles Ridge property is 114 acres of forested property with waterfront access. Only a fraction of it is developable.
Owner of huge Crescent Valley forestland threatens logging, selloff to preserve dream of Canterwood-like development
Sep 11, 2024Unpaved peninsula: The Harbor’s hidden forests and fields Note: Growing up on the Gig Harbor Peninsula used to entail some familiarity with the woods. If you knew the routes, you could cross the peninsula on trails, sticking to fields and forests (and occasionally crossing a country road). That’s much harder today, yet undeveloped land remains
Trouble in paradise: Short-term rental on sandspit becomes flashpoint for controversy
Jul 19, 2024From the watery world of the Lighthouse Beach short-term rental property, it’s easy to forget worldly cares. The site, boasting two complete houses and a boat dock, straddles the sandspit at the mouth of Gig Harbor Bay. It is adjacent to the city’s iconic lighthouse and its grassy, marine-access-only park. With ample picture windows looking
Village at Harbor Hill still waiting on an anchor-tenant grocer
Jun 13, 2024The Village at Harbor Hill developers had no “amazing news” at a community meeting, but a Trader Joe’s representative was in the crowd.
Short-term rentals grew slowly in first year under new regulations, Gig Harbor officials say
Apr 15, 2024Could it be that after an 18-month moratorium on new short-term rentals (STRs) in Gig Harbor, a sometimes acrimonious public debate on the topic, and a full year of these lodgings operating under new rules that seemed to satisfy neither critics nor proponents, the city’s STR businesses are growing at a slow to moderate pace
Harbor Farms shutters Rosedale Street venue, buys larger North Rosedale site
Apr 03, 2024A farm-oriented amusement venue that made a splash when it operated for a few weekends last fall has closed its doors (or rather, farmyard gates) for good at its Rosedale Street location. For sale signs popped up along its split-rail fence earlier this month, surprising passersby. Harbor Farms, the creation of Gig Harbor pizzeria and
Geoduck farm hearings postponed two months due to opposition leader’s departure
Mar 19, 2024Hearings on Taylor Shellfish’s proposed geoduck farm in Burley Lagoon have been postponed until May.
Gig Harbor plans $2 million roundabout at 56th Street and 38th Avenue
Mar 14, 2024Many people living near the junction of 56th Street NW and 38th Avenue NW, at the western edge of Gig Harbor city limits, have been there long enough to remember when it was a country crossroads. Traffic at this spot is not bad now. But when city officials look at the intersection in light of
Free legal pop-ups debut this week in Gig Harbor
Feb 12, 2024Legal advice may not, at first, seem as fundamental a human need as food or medical care. But Bob Vollbracht, volunteer leader of the Gig Harbor Key Peninsula Housing-Homeless Coalition, has seen the profound benefit of free legal services to low-income clients shaken by situations such as domestic violence, child custody disputes or looming evictions.
Pierce County weighs stripping urban growth designation from Purdy
Jan 29, 2024If Purdy ever truly dreamed of an urban future, that possibility may be slipping away. The tiny agglomeration of businesses, schools, homes and utility company maintenance yards at the head of Henderson Bay, just over Gig Harbor’s northern border, has long been designated an urban growth area (UGA) under the Pierce County Comprehensive Plan. That’s
