Historic Cushman Street Fair – 9/7/24

Historic Cushman Street Fair!

September 7, 2024 from 11am – 3pm

Location: Cushman Substation – 3713 N. 19th St., Tacoma, WA 98406

 

Like last year, this will be a fun event at the Cushman and Adams substations with booths, music, food, and a video tour, plus free ice cream for kids again from Bliss!  But this year’s event is even more important for two reasons. One, the fair will be the final event in the Proctor Blocks series, which is taking place in different Proctor locations over the summer and will highlight ways that closing a street can energize the neighborhood. Hopefully you will attend some of these other events along with the Historic Cushman Street Fair to show how important it is for the City of Tacoma to support community events like this.

 

And two, perhaps more importantly, the fair will be the second event in the public process to help the City decide what to do with the Cushman and Adams substation properties. Otak, the consultant hired by the City of Tacoma to come up with proposals, will be starting their community engagement process on June 22nd, 2024 with visioning workshops, and they’ll be attending the Historic Cushman Street Fair as well. If you want to know more about the Cushman process, click here for more info and to sign up for updates.

 

Come look at the Cushman and Adams properties and enjoy the Street Fair on September 7! Connect with your neighbors! Dream about the possibilities for the site! 

 

–RSVP on our Facebook Event Page–

 

Organizations, Musicians, and Vendors participating in the Street Fair:

 

We’ve invited a host of local organizations that can share information on community issues such as neighborhood history, local volunteer opportunities, helping community members in need, and ways to make your home and garden more environmentally-friendly. Fun craft activities, a craft supplies swap, and neighborhood litter pickup are also in the works. Come and celebrate community with us!

 

Food Vendors:

 

Music Stage:

 

History Tour:

  • Chris Staudinger of Pretty Gritty Tours will lead tours outside the Cushman Substation. Join Chris to learn more about this iconic building and its important role in the history of our city and country.

 

Organizations:

  • Balloon Biker — Get your fantastical balloon creations, animals, and headdresses!
  • Children’s booth — Draw a picture to show your ideas for Cushman-Adams Electric Substations. Have fun with static electricity!
  • City of Tacoma — Information about neighborhood planning around our city.
  • EnviroChallengers — Find out how to get involved with community-based projects to protect our urban environment.
  • Friends of Tacoma’s Cushman Substation — Discover the amazing history of our nationally-important Cushman and Adams Substations.
  • Habitat for Humanity — Find out about assistance towards home ownership, and learn how you can volunteer on construction projects or help in Habitat’s retail store. 
  • Historic Tacoma — Learn about Tacoma’s built heritage and how historic preservation can support sustainability.
  • Mason United Methodist Church — Learn about volunteer opportunities and information on church redevelopment plans to provide mixed-income housing, community spaces, affordable childcare, and an arts venue.
  • Metro Parks Tacoma — Learn about our city parks and all the programs and activities they offer.
  • North End Neighborhood Council — Connect with our neighborhood council to keep up-to-date on important events around our neighborhood and city.
  • Northwest Furniture Bank — Learn how to donate your gently used furniture to help families in need.  
  • Otak, the consultants leading the Cushman-Adams visioning process — Provide your ideas for the future use of the Cushman and Adams Substations. 
  • Pierce Conservation District — Find out how to make your property more habitat friendly and reduce harmful stormwater runoff.
  • Tacoma Environmental Services — Learn how Environmental Services protects and restores natural resources, keeping our city clean, safe and livable through garbage and recycling pickup, wastewater treatment, household hazardous waste disposal, protection from stormwater pollution and much more.
  • Tacoma Public Library — Learn how to access the Library’s Northwest Room online databases to conduct research about your home and Tacoma architecture.
  • Tacoma Public Utilities — Find out how TPU can help you save energy and reduce costs.
  • Tacoma Tool Library — Information on tool sharing and Fix-it-Fairs (fix your broken devices rather than throwing them out).
  • Tacoma Tree Foundation  — Learn how you can help bring desperately-needed trees to our neighborhoods.
  • Tagro — “Home grown” environmentally-friendly products for yard and lawn. 
  • The ReMakery — Learn to craft with recycled materials. Take part in a neighborhood craft supplies swap.  
  • TUFF (Tacoma Urban Forest Friends) — Discover just how vital trees are to neighborhood health and what you can do to help our urban forest.
  • University of Puget Sound —  University of Puget Sound is a leading liberal arts university in Tacoma, offering a rigorous, flexible education that gives students the freedom to explore and shape their studies, supported every step of the way by mentors and advisors.
  • Washington State University’s Forest Health Lab – Learn about volunteering to map and monitor Tacoma’s valuable urban forest and gain skills for identifying trees, assessing tree health, and detecting pests and pathogens.