Looking ahead
2010 is starting off quickly. We've got a big dinner tonight for City Club and there's plenty of work for Mary Holste Design. It's a good combo. But I still want to do a little reflection here. At the tail end of 2008, I wrote that I wanted to become more civically active in Tacoma. That took off in a big way with City Club. A non-profit dedicated to civic dialog and discussion? Sign me up! I didn't know how I was going to do it exactly, but I do feel that it was one goal (I hate calling them resolutions) Read more…
The new Satellite on Market
via weeklyvolcano.typepad.com Looking forward to getting back to Tacoma so I can check out the new Satellite Coffee by the downtown Y! Looks very cool.
“Merry Christmas, Movie House!”
I must confess to feeling a little proud this Christmas morning. About 5 years ago, I approached the board of the Grand Cinema with a proposal. "The tenant in 608 Fawcett is leaving," I said (I'm summarizing here, but this is the gist of it). "I don't know whether we'll stay at the Merlino Art Center or whether we'll look for a new home, but if we want to stay and expand here, we need to have control of the storefront at 608 Fawcett. It's the only space we could easily convert into another movie theater without major structural changes Read more…
Where to be in Tacoma in 2012
via washingtonbeerblog.com The Elks McMenamins has plans to open on St. Paddy’s Day 2012. Now that’s going to be a party … (via Morgan’s Brain)
Site launch for First Lutheran Church on Wright Park! Feels good. But still have two more sites to launch by Christmas …
The church Mary and I got married in last December finally has a new site. We’ve been plugging away on the new First Lutheran site and I’m happy to have it live. It’s a clean, simple design with a focus on big pictures to show off the church and their ministry. (When we needed a shot for the wedding page, you can guess where we got one.) No time to celebrate, though! I’ve got a client presentation at 8:30 am tomorrow, followed by the City Club lunch tomorrow with Sal Mungia, President of the Washington State Bar Association. And by Wednesday of Read more…
Janine Terrano on hiring in Tacoma.
We have found that it is far easier to move people to Tacoma than it is to convince people to drive from Bellevue to Tacoma. Part of it is there’s still this notion that Tacoma doesn’t have all it needs to have in terms of lifestyle. But when we move people from out of state, they find that it does. It’s a perception, not reality. via thenewstribune.com I found this interesting, coming from a local tech company. The rest of the Q&A has good stuff too.
The Winthrop revisited
So about 18 months ago Shelterforce magazine (the journal of the National Housing Institute, based out of New Jersey) commissioned me to write about the Winthrop. I was only too happy to do so, and jumped into the project, interviewing people all over Tacoma including residents of the Winthrop, the mayor, Prium CEO Ansara, Michael Mirra of the THA, etc. I also called on my own experience attending the early-morning meetings in 2006 when Quiqq was trying to make something happen. Unfortunately, it was bumped a few times. But it finally went live! You can read it here on their Read more…
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