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City staff report progress on Tacoma's Green Economic Development Strategy, highlight attraction and workforce efforts
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City staff presented a progress report on the Green Economic Development Strategy, citing business retention successes, new partnership work with technical colleges, several site-specific projects and continued integration of sustainability principles into planning documents.
City of Tacoma economic development staff presented a progress report on the Green Economic Development Strategy at the Aug. 12, 2025, Economic Development Committee meeting, summarizing two years of implementation work, partner coordination and specific industry recruitment efforts.
Paul Bacher, business and economic development analyst, said the strategy—launched in 2023 as an 81-page plan—focuses on three priorities: helping existing businesses evolve, preparing the workforce for green-economy jobs and attracting new businesses to Tacoma. Bacher said staff had to adapt implementation because of federal and state funding shifts, tighter local budgets and staffing changes.
Bacher highlighted a few case studies of work the city and partners have taken on. One example…
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