Renovations will begin this summer at Owen beach in Point Defiance Park in Tacoma this summer.
The project is expected to cost $4 million and will include improved parking, a play area for children, a picnic pavilion, and new restrooms. There will be ramps and more parking spaces to make the beach and the parking lot more accessible to those with disabilities and concrete walkways will be removed to enable the restoration of habitat. There will also be improvements to the utilities at the beach.
Banner printing can be used at such sites so that the community can be made aware of such renovations and enhancements.
Deputy director of planning and development for Metro Parks, Marty Stump, said that these upgrades will be further away from the beach and up the slope. The promenade at the beach will move inland 18 feet, the lawn 34 feet, and the parking lot 57 feet. Stump said this plan was needed as the sea levels at the beach are expected to rise, putting the current facilities at risk of being underwater in the future.
Metro Parks established Owen Beach in 1957. The beach comprises about 1,000 feet of the three-mile shoreline at Point Defiance Park, so that it is a destination for beach-goers. Voters passed a $197 million bond in 2014 that included funding for improvements at the beach.
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