Downtown businesses host block party as power outage continues in Tacoma

The shops along Pacific Avenue are trying to come up with new ways to generate revenue as outages forces businesses to stay closed.

TACOMA, Wash. — There are still 17 business without power in Tacoma after a deadly single-vehicle crash disrupted electricity along Pacfic Avenue early Saturday morning. 

The power is supplied by the University of Washington Tacoma, which is also heavily impacted by the outage.

“We have communicated to businesses regularly, although we do not yet have a clear timeline for restoration of power,” a UW Tacoma spokesperson said Thursday in a statement. “We understand and share the urgency and we are working

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