Rick Anderson Place

We know you are as eager as we are to see Rick Anderson Place open and serving our community. Since the building's purchase in 2023, we've bee diligently working to move this project forward behind the scenes.

Because the building's addition of the upper floor was permitted in the 80s and never built out, we were essentially starting from scratch with updated building codes. It took almost two years to have the in-depth conversations needed with these Pierce County departments:

• Planning, including use, zoning, parking, landscape buffer, ADA compliance, etc 
• Building, including floor plan, egress, occupancy, plumbing, energy code 
• Development engineering, including green space, Right of Way, Traffic Impact, driveway approach 
• Health department, including water and septic 
• Fire prevention/suppression 

By the time we had a sense of the work that needed to be done to attain permits, Pierce County had changed its codes to require sequential permitting (State, then county) rather than their previous policy of running the permit processes concurrently. This change has drawn out our timeline significantly.

We attained our permit from the WA State Department of Health in Fall 2025 which has allowed us to begin construction needed to connect the building with our Class A well on the neighboring Lowell Johnson Park property.

As of May 2026, we are in the final stages of that construction project, upon which we will continue down the list of Steps to Get to Opening that you see to the right/below.

Waiting for the state/county to review and approve permit requests or completions are the biggest factor we can't control. We'll do our best to move it along.

We currently have no solid date for opening the upper floor - it could be as early as summer 2027 or it could extend into 2028.