Bridge Point South Tacoma Warehouse Settlement
We reached a settlement agreement with the Bridge Point Tacoma development for $8.95 million that will help reduce air quality impacts to communities near the company’s proposed warehouse development.
Bridge Point Tacoma is developing a 2.5 million square foot warehouse facility in South Tacoma. This project is located on a historically contaminated site (Commencement Bay, South Tacoma Channel Superfund Site).
What is Ecology’s role in the history of the project?
In December 2023, we issued the project coverage under the Construction Stormwater General Permit (CSGP). We included an administrative order with the project’s permit coverage. This order included conditions Bridge Point Tacoma had to follow to protect water quality when working on a contaminated site, as well as conditions to mitigate air quality and traffic impacts from diesel trucks. Bridge Point Tacoma appealed its permit coverage and the traffic and air-quality related conditions in the administrative order, although both the order and permit coverage remained in effect during the appeal process.
As part of a settlement agreement, Bridge Point Tacoma agreed to withdraw its appeal and pay Ecology $8.95 million to address traffic and air pollution in South Tacoma.
What happens next?
Ecology will use these funds to implement protective measures to improve indoor and outdoor air quality and add an air monitoring station in the South Tacoma neighborhoods most impacted by project diesel truck traffic. As part of Ecology’s Climate Commitment Act, we identified these neighborhoods as overburdened and highly impacted by air pollution. Since the settlement was signed, we have started gathering community input about how the settlement funds should be used to best address air quality and traffic impacts from diesel trucks in South Tacoma.
In June 2025, we worked with the Voice Tacoma Creative Media (Voice Tacoma) community group to conduct home visits to residences along the future primary truck traffic route (along Union Ave). This included over 100 residences. During these visits, we collected information about how residents wanted us to spend settlement funds. Some options that were supported by residents include weatherizing homes, providing air cleaners and replacement filters and planting trees near the project site. This input will help guide our spending.
In addition, we are currently working to establish a new air quality monitoring site near the intersection of Union Ave and 35th Street.
Related links
- Nov. 2024 news release – Ecology receives $8.95 million settlement to help reduce air quality impacts from South Tacoma warehouse project
- City of Tacoma – Bridge Industrial BNSF website
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – Project website
- EPA fact sheet – South Tacoma Field Superfund Cleanup Status and Redevelopment Activities
Contact information
Brittny Goodsell
Communications — Media contact
brittny.goodsell@ecy.wa.gov
work: 360-280-3704
mobile: 360-280-3704
Meg Bommarito
Regional Planner — Northwest Region
meg.bommarito@ecy.wa.gov
425-681-6236
Bobbak Talebi
Regional Director — Southwest Region
bobbak.talebi@ecy.wa.gov
360-789-9500