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The U.S. state of Washington has six telephone area codes. The state initially used a single area code until it was divided in 1957 with the creation of area code 509 to serve Eastern Washington. In 1995, 206 was split again to serve just the Puget Sound region after area code 360 was created for the remainder of Western Washington.
List of Washington area codes may refer to: List of Washington (state) area codes; List of Washington, D.C., area codes This page was last edited on 23 ...
Larson was born and raised in University Place, Washington, in suburban Tacoma, [1] the son of Verner, a car salesman, and Doris, a secretary. [2] He graduated from Curtis Senior High School in University Place and from Washington State University in Pullman [ 1 ] with a degree in communications.
The southern portion, including Tacoma, received area code 253, while the northern portion, including Everett and the Eastside, was assigned area code 425. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] On June 15, 2023, the WUTC approved the expansion of the overlay plan of area code 564 to the 206 area before central office code exhaustion occurs in 2025. [ 5 ]
In 2000, the State of Washington passed RCW 54.16.330, [5] effectively preventing further research and development of Click! Network until its repeal in 2021 [6] during the COVID-19 pandemic, a period of over 20 years. In 2020, Click! Network was sold by the Tacoma Public Utilities to Rainier Connect.
Tacoma (/ t ə ˈ k oʊ m ə / tə-KOH-mə) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. [6] A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Seattle, 36 miles (58 km) southwest of Bellevue, 31 miles (50 km) northeast of the state capital, Olympia, 58 miles (93 km) northwest of Mount Rainier National Park, and 80 miles (130 km) east ...
Michael Larson (born October 1959) is an American businessman and investor. The founder and chief investment officer of Cascade Investment , he oversees all investment activities of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Bill Gates ' personal fortune. [ 1 ]
The center of the Proctor District is located at the cross streets of Proctor Street and North 26th Street in Tacoma. The 1927 Proctor Street bridge just north of the district was rebuilt in 2006. A major commercial and residential development, Proctor Station, has been a controversial project due to its size and cost.