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July 10, 2025

Merlino Arts Center (no, not that Merlino) sold for $5M in Tacoma

By BRIAN MILLER
Real Estate Editor

Photo via Pierce County [enlarge]
The former Odd Fellows hall became an arts hub in the late 1980s.

The Merlino Arts Center, at 606 Fawcett Ave. in Tacoma , sold at the very end of June for $5 million, according to Pierce County records. As intended by the seller, with no brokers involved, the buyer was longtime tenant The Grand Cinema, a nonprofit that also announced the deal. It operates four screens there, and has been based at the center since the mid-1990s.


 
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