Six Tacoma tracts are among Washington's 99 OZ 2.0 nominations, per the city. Treasury has not certified any list; certified zones start Jan. 1, 2027.
The six tracts. The City of Tacoma’s October 13, 2026 release says Gov. Bob Ferguson nominated six Tacoma census tracts as federal Opportunity Zones: five that it describes as already existing zones (61602, 62600, 61601, 61400 and 63401) and “one new tract, 94007.” The city lists the focus corridors as Downtown Tacoma, Hilltop, the Brewery District, Portland Avenue, South Tacoma along Pacific Avenue, the South Tacoma Manufacturing Industrial Center and the Puyallup Tribal Headquarters vicinity. City of Destiny Daily (October 23, 2026) reported the same details, citing the city announcement. The tracts are part of the 99 nominations the governor sent to Treasury on October 8, per the Commerce release.
Matching the city’s tract numbers. The city writes tract numbers without the decimal point. Washington’s nominated list, which we take from the Commerce nomination dashboard, has nine Pierce County tracts (see our Pierce County tract list). Six match the city’s numbers: tract 614, tract 616.01, tract 616.02, tract 626, tract 634.01 and tract 9400.07. Matching “94007” to tract 9400.07 is our reading; it is the only Pierce County tract on the nominated list that fits that number. All six are listed as non-rural in the Rev. Proc. 2026-14 appendix. The other three Pierce County nominations are tracts 715.04, 734.05 and 9400.02, which the city does not mention.
One difference from the 2018 list. The CDFI Fund’s 2018 zone list includes tracts 614, 616.01, 616.02, 626 and 9400.07 in Pierce County, but not tract 634.01. By that list, 9400.07 would be an existing zone and 634.01 would be the new nomination, the reverse of the city’s description (63401 existing, 94007 new). The city’s release does not explain how it counted, and we have not found a reason for the difference, so we report the city’s split as the city’s and the 2018 list status as it appears in the CDFI Fund file. The 2018 list was drawn on 2010 census tract boundaries, so renumbered or split tracts could be part of the explanation, but we have not confirmed that.
What the city says. Mayor Anders Ibsen said the zones “will help unlock more housing around transit, more jobs near businesses, and more corridor investment.” The city says Tacoma’s existing zones “have attracted over $250 million of private investment since 2018,” a figure we have not independently verified, and that the program “operates without municipal fiscal impact to the City of Tacoma.” It lists support from Rep. Emily Randall, the Puyallup Tribe of Indians, the Puget Sound Regional Council, Pierce County, the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber of Commerce, the Economic Development Board of Tacoma-Pierce County, the Manufacturing Industrial Council, the Downtown Tacoma Partnership, the University of Washington Tacoma, Sound Transit and housing developers. Commerce points to The Koz on MLK in Hilltop as a completed project backed by an initial 2018 investment framework: finished in 2022, it now has 161 units and ground-floor commercial space.
Statewide context. Commerce says the 99 nominations come from 152 applications, represent 27 counties and 17 tribal lands, and include 36 rural opportunities, down from the 139 areas in 36 counties nominated in 2018. It says OZ 1.0 zones “will remain active through Dec. 31, 2028,” and that a certified OZ 2.0 area would keep its status through December 31, 2036 (see the Commerce release, October 8, 2026).
What happens next. These are nominations, not certified Opportunity Zones. As of October 25, 2026, Treasury’s Opportunity Zone data page lists the tracts eligible for nomination and no certified list for Washington or any other state. Under Rev. Proc. 2026-14, Treasury’s 30-day consideration period for nominations made during the determination period ends November 27, 2026 at the latest (section 2.02(f)). A State CEO may request and receive a 30-day extension, which would move that date to December 28, 2026 at the latest (how certification works). Certified zones take effect January 1, 2027. Other Washington places have named their areas too: Thurston County, Spokane, Federal Way and Renton–Tukwila and Kent. Washington’s full status is on the Washington zone page, and every state is on the nomination tracker.
Original reporting by the OpportunityZoneInvest Editorial Team for Opportunity Zone Invest, an independent OZ 2.0 research site. Facts are drawn from the primary sources cited above per our editorial standards. Nothing here is tax, legal, or investment advice.
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