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DESCRIPTION:March 2020 Forum - State of the City\n\nSpeaker: Lacey City Manager\, Scott Spence\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLacey is a rapidly growing community\, with a 30-minute drive-time market presence exceeding 425\,000 diverse and friendly people\, located on the Interstate-5 corridor between Portland\, Oregon and Seattle\, Washington and immediately east of the Washington state capital of Olympia.\n\n\n\nCommunities are made up of people\, and the people of Lacey are educated\, highly skilled\, entrepreneurial\, welcoming\, and drawn here by the value equation of the area: high quality of life\, with a surprisingly low cost of living.\n\n\n\nOne of the factors that really sets Lacey apart is its approach to businesses and business people. The staff at the City of Lacey take a customer-friendly and customer-focused approach to decision making that is positive and pro-active\, ensuring a result that is clear\, predictable\, fast\, and efficient.\n\n\n\nLacey has quality sites available and a streamlined development process.  There are hundreds of acres of competitively-priced\, fully-served light-industrial and prime-commercial land is available for development within the City\, much of it with easy Interstate-5 access. Lacey's development process is customer-friendly\, customer-focused\, clear\, predictable\, fast\, and efficient.\n\n\n\nLacey collaborates effectively with numerous economic development community partners to ensure that the services that entrepreneurs and businesses need are available.  An example of this is the City's work with the Thurston Economic Development Council and South Puget Sound Community College to open the new Center for Business & Innovation\, located on the College's new Lacey campus. The Center is designed to bolster the success of new entrepreneurs and support key industries in our region.\n\n\n\nSponsored By Olympia Federal Savings & FASTSIGNS
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<span style="color:#000000\;"><span style="font-size:16px\;"><span style="font-family:arial\;"><strong>&#8203\;March 2020 Forum - State&nbsp\;</strong></span></span><span style="font-size:16px\;"><span style="font-family:arial\;"><strong>of the City<br />\nSpeaker: Lacey City Manager\, Scott Spence</strong></span></span></span><br />\n<br />\n<img alt="" height="250" src="https://chambermaster.blob.core.windows.net/userfiles/UserFiles/chambers/234/Image/Spence_Scott.jpg" style="width: 200px\; height: 250px\;" width="200" /><br />\n<br />\n<span style="font-size:12px\;"><span style="font-family:arial\;">Lacey is a rapidly growing community\, with a 30-minute drive-time market presence exceeding 425\,000 diverse and friendly people\, located on the Interstate-5 corridor between Portland\, Oregon and Seattle\, Washington and immediately east of the Washington state capital of Olympia.<br />\n<br />\nCommunities are made up of people\, and the people of Lacey are educated\, highly skilled\, entrepreneurial\, welcoming\, and drawn here by the value equation of the area: high quality of life\, with a surprisingly low cost of living.<br />\n<br />\nOne of the factors that really sets Lacey apart is its approach to businesses and business people. The staff at the City of Lacey take a customer-friendly and customer-focused approach to decision making that is positive and pro-active\, ensuring a result that is clear\, predictable\, fast\, and efficient.<br />\n<br />\nLacey has quality sites available and a streamlined development process.&nbsp\; There are hundreds of acres of competitively-priced\, fully-served light-industrial and prime-commercial land is available for development within the City\, much of it with easy Interstate-5 access. Lacey&rsquo\;s development process is customer-friendly\, customer-focused\, clear\, predictable\, fast\, and efficient.<br />\n<br />\nLacey collaborates effectively with numerous economic development community partners to ensure that the services that entrepreneurs and businesses need are available.&nbsp\; An example of this is the City&rsquo\;s work with the Thurston Economic Development Council and South Puget Sound Community College to open the new Center for Business &amp\; Innovation\, located on the College&rsquo\;s new Lacey campus. The Center is designed to bolster the success of new entrepreneurs and support key industries in our region.</span></span><br />\n<br />\n<strong style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\; font-family: arial\; font-size: 16px\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\;">Sponsored By Olympia Federal Savings &amp\; FASTSIGNS</strong>
LOCATION:Saint Martin's Worthington Center 5300 Pacific Avenue Lacey\, WA 98503
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URL:http://business.laceysschamber.com/events/details/forum-03-04-2020-3656
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