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FUN FACTS

Bank of the West recently expanded into Tacoma to support businesses that have helped make the city a growing center of enterprise, culture, and trade. Here are just a few details we learned about Tacoma that help make it such

a unique and vibrant place to do business.

15 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT TACOMA

Tacoma was nicknamed “City of Destiny” when it became the western terminus for the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1873.

The Port of Tacoma is Washington’s largest port and the nation’s 9th

busiest.

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge is the fifth longest suspension

bridge in the world.

GO WEST!

An estimated 1 in 3 jobs in Tacoma is tied to international trade.

Tacoma is a reading producer in satellite imaging, auto-mated fingerprint & radio frequency

ID systems.

30% of businesses in Tacoma are women-owned firms (based on most recent

Census data).

There are over 1,400 farms in Pierce County, where Tacoma is

located.

There are 15 neighborhood busi-ness districts in Tacoma.

The 1st and 2nd largest employers in Tacoma are Fort Lewis

Army Post and McChord Air Force Base, respectively.

There are 2,773 restaurants within 15 miles of Tacoma.

https://www.tacoma.uw.edu/about-uw-tacoma/random-tacoma-triviahttp://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/53/5370000.html

http://www.tacomachamber.org/node/63#overlay-context=node/64http://nreionline.com/public-infrastructure/top-10-busiest-us-ports#slide-2-field_images-531171

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/TNBhistory/default.htmhttp://www.city-data.com/us-cities/The-West/Tacoma-Economy.html

http://agr.wa.gov/AgInWa/docs/126-CropMap2015-ForCopier.pdfhttp://www.tacomachamber.org/content/learn-more-about-tacoma-pierce-county

http://tacomameansbusiness.com/why-tacoma/downtown-neighborhoodshttp://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7379

Sources:

IS THE LARGEST WOOD-DOMED ARENA IN THE WORLD (1.6 MILLION BOARD FEET).

TACOMA DOMETHE

BASKIN ROBBINS®

STARTED SELLING ICE CREAM IN TACOMA IN 1927 PRODUCED FROM SURPLUS MILK FROM

HIS FATHER’S COWS.

IRVINE ROBBINS, COFOUNDER OF

SECRET TUNNELSTHE EXISTENCE OF

UNDER TACOMA IS A LONG-STANDING URBAN MYTH.

BING CROSBYWAS A TACOMA NATIVE.

SINGER AND ACTOR