TACOMA, Wash. — Sound Transit has approved plans to build a new Tacoma Dome station for its Link light rail system, a plan which would require the demolition of the Freighhouse Square market dating to 1909.
The choice was part of the Sound Transit board’s selection of a final route for its Tacoma Dome Link Extension light rail project, made at a meeting last week.
The station site was chosen because of its proximity to the Tacoma stations for Amtrak and Sound Transit’s Sounder commuter trains. It was a unanimous choice of the Sound Transit board and had also been recommended by Tacoma’s city council…