The Tacoma Dome Station is a Sounder train station serving the city of Tacoma, Washington. It was built by Sound Transit along Tacoma Municipal Beltline (Tacoma Rail) tracks in Downtown Tacoma, completed in 2000. The station is also served by ST Express, Pierce Transit and Greyhound buses, as well as Tacoma Link. Intercity Transit routes number 601, 601A, and 603 also serve this station.

The Sounder portion of the station was remodeled from a portion of the existing Freighthouse Square, a shopping center built in a former Milwaukee Road freight station.

From 2000 to 2012, Tacoma Dome Station served as the southern terminus of the Sounder south line.

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The Tacoma Dome is an indoor arena located in Tacoma, Washington, approximately 30 miles south of Seattle.

History

Upon winning an international design competition, local architects McGranahan and Messenger completed the Tacoma Dome in 1983 for $44 million which opened on April 21; the arena seats 17,100 for basketball. 530 feet (160 m) in diameter and 152 feet (46 m) tall, and able to seat 23,000, it is the largest arena with a wooden dome in the world when measured by volume. (The Superior Dome, in Marquette, Michigan, is a larger diameter geodesic dome at 536 feet (163 m), but is only 143 feet (44 m) high and only seats a maximum of 16,000.) Unlike most other arenas of its size, the arena contains little in the way of fixed seating so as to maximize the flexibility of the seating arrangements and of the shape of the playing field. It can even host American football, albeit with seating reduced to only 10,000.

The arena hosted the Seattle SuperSonics from 1994 to 1995 while the Seattle Center Coliseum was being renovated into the venue now known as KeyArena as well as various regular season Sonics games during other seasons. It also hosted the Tacoma Rockets Western Hockey League team from 1991 to 1995, the Tacoma Sabercats of the West Coast Hockey League from 1997 to 2002, The Tacoma Stars indoor soccer team of the MISL from 1983 to 1992, gymnastics and figure skating events during the 1990 Goodwill Games, numerous other minor league ice hockey and indoor soccer teams. The Dome also hosted the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship in back to back years (1989-1990).