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Lacey staff and consultants outline five-year economic development strategy centered on identity, small business and placemaking
Summary
City staff and Echo Northwest presented a 5‑year economic development strategy to the Lacey Planning Commission on Oct. 22, 2025, recommending three goals—economic identity, business support and placemaking—broken into 12 actions the city would lead or support. The plan will be finalized for City Council review in December.
On Oct. 22, 2025, at a meeting of the Lacey Planning Commission, city staff and consultants from Echo Northwest presented a draft five‑year economic development strategy that frames three principal goals—defining a new city identity, supporting businesses, and improving quality of life through placemaking—and 12 specific actions to pursue over the next five years.
Wesley Wen, economic development staff for the city of Lacey, described the engagement that informed the plan and introduced the Echo Northwest team. Britney Bagent, project director at Echo Northwest, told commissioners the plan is intended to be “aspirational and within reach” and emphasized sequencing actions so staff can secure near‑term wins while building toward longer goals.
The strategy recommends actions grouped under three goals. Under “economic identity,” consultants propose expanding storytelling and events (for example, growing the city’s night market and a…
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