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University Place, WA - History


We would like to provide the residents of  University Place  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the University Place Home page. The University Place Home page provides as much information as possible on University Place. Knowing University Place’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within University Place’s Home page, you will also find University Place’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

University Place has a population of 33661. 47.8% of University Place’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.2 are female. 52.6% of University Place is married and 58.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $388,474, and the average rent is $1,250. Household median income in University Place is $77,832, and the individual median income is $41,491. University Place’s Ethnic is the following: White(70.5%), Asian(10.7%), Multiple(8.7%), Hispanic(8.4%), Black(6.1%), Other(2.8%), Pacific(0.8%), Native(0.3%).


University Place received its name in the 1800s when the University of Puget Sound, a private liberal-arts college in North Tacoma, purchased land along the primary north–south route of Grandview Drive. The school sought to build a new campus there, but ended up selling the land back to the city for about $11,000.


University Place remained an unincorporated part of Pierce County until the City of University Place was formed on August 31, 1995.Today, University Place is largely suburban in character and functions as a mixed business and residential area with waterfront on the Puget Sound. The town is home to Curtis Senior High School and Charles Wright Academy. Chambers Bay golf course opened in 2007 to favorable reviews.


A Scottish links-style course, Chambers Bay hosted the 2010 U.S. Amateur and the 2015 U.S. Open.University Place's news is primarily covered by The News Tribune (Tacoma), and is also covered by University Place Patch, a hyper-local news website that launched in October 2010, and sometimes by news media in Seattle.


Earlier newspapers for the community were the weekly Suburban Times (1970s), published by Dave Sclair (who, starting in 1970, also published Western Flyer); and, in the 1980s, the Lakewood Press, published by Grace T. Eubanks and later Dane S. Claussen, which launched the University Place Press as a monthly and then biweekly before it folded in early 1989.


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