20ft, 40ft, high cube, modified, and refrigerated containers delivered to Tacoma, Pierce County and the South Sound, including Lakewood, University Place, Puyallup, Federal Way and Fife.
Tacoma is the county seat of Pierce County, which runs from the Puget Sound waterfront up to Mount Rainier. Deliveries reach Pierce, King, Thurston, Kitsap, Mason, Lewis, Grays Harbor and Jefferson counties. Delivery areas include the North End, the Proctor District, the Stadium District, Old Town, Hilltop, Central Tacoma, the Lincoln District, South Tacoma, the Eastside, Northeast Tacoma, Browns Point, Dash Point, McKinley Hill, Fern Hill, Salishan, downtown and New Tacoma, the Tideflats and Port Industrial area, the Nalley Valley, the West End, Titlow Beach, Point Defiance, the Ruston Way waterfront, Oakland-Madrona and Larchmont.
Tacoma is a home rule city and its land use rules sit in Title 13 of the Tacoma Municipal Code, the Land Use Regulatory Code, administered by Planning and Development Services in the Tacoma Municipal Building. Tacoma writes about shipping containers explicitly rather than leaving them to be inferred from accessory structure rules, so an answer is available before you order. Lakewood, University Place, Fircrest, Ruston, Fife, Puyallup, Gig Harbor, DuPont and unincorporated Pierce County are separate jurisdictions with their own codes.
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The Tideflats handle containers every day, and a business there can use its own for staging, parts and seasonal overflow. A container on the yard can absorb a peak without warehouse square footage that sits empty in the slow months.
A household in transition around Joint Base Lewis-McChord can use a container at the house to hold furniture and gear through a move, a deployment or a rental gap, with one key and no rented unit across town.
Crews working across Pierce County can use a container as the lockup on site. Tools, copper, fixtures and appliances stay in one steel box, in place of loading a trailer at the end of every day.
Houses in the North End, Proctor and the Stadium District are older and close together, and some have little garage space. When one is opened up, a container can keep furniture, cabinetry and finish material on site and out of the rain for the length of the job.
Commencement Bay and Gig Harbor have a working marine trade, and gear comes off the boats between seasons. A container can hold nets, line, spare parts and deck equipment secure and dry at the yard rather than filling a shop bay.
South and east of the city, through Graham, Eatonville, Orting and Roy, parcels get bigger and some have no outbuilding. A container can hold feed, tack, fencing, mowers and implements out of the weather without a barn project.
Kegs, packaging, patio furniture, festival gear and seasonal stock need dry space that does not have to be indoors. A container behind the building can keep the back of house clear and the indoor square footage in use for customers.
A few things shape how a delivery goes in this area:
For permit questions on a specific address, contact the City of Tacoma Planning and Development Services, Tacoma Municipal Building, 747 Market Street, 3rd Floor, Tacoma WA 98402, phone (253) 591-5030, department permit site tacomapermits.org. For addresses outside the city, Pierce County Planning and Public Works and each suburban city are separate jurisdictions.
Containers are available in several grades, from used wind and water tight to one-trip.
Call or text (330) 510-5817, or use the quote form above.