Req. #8181
RESOLUTION NO. 34904
2 WHEREAS the Harold E. LeMay Museum ("Museum"), a private nonprofit
3 corporation, is planning to construct a world-class national automobile museum in
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the City of Tacoma as a permanent home for Harold E. LeMay's vintage collection
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6 of automobiles, carriages, fire trucks, and thousands of other artifacts of Americana
7 ("Collection"), and
8 WHEREAS the Collection is cited in the Guinness Book of World Records
9 as the largest private automobile collection in the world, and
10 WHEREAS construction of the Museum in Tacoma will result in many
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benefits to the citizens of the City, including attracting local, national, and
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1 3 international visitors to the City, and
14 WHEREAS the Museum desires to locate on a portion of the City-owned
1 5 Tacoma Dome property that is of sufficient size to accommodate both the new
1 6 museum and expanded public parking to serve both the Museum and the Tacoma
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Dome, and
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WHEREAS the Tacoma 2010 Project ("Project") and the City's Economic
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20 Development Program recognize cultural facilities as tourist attractions and key
21 components in the economic revitalization of Tacoma, and
22 WHEREAS the City's adopted Tacoma Dome Area Plan identifies, as policy
23 LUD 5, that the City should actively pursue opportunities for providing new
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destination attractions t...
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