Dear Downtown Employees, What’s Your New Year’s Resolution? Does it include getting fit, saving money and doing something good for your community? The Downtown Commuter Program can help you find a commute option that’s right for you. The Downtown Commuter Program provides downtown employees: [more]

The Parking and Business Improvement Area, (PBIA) of downtown Olympia (the awesome people responsible for the hanging flower baskets..) has started the first phase of their marketing plan to brighten our streets! [more]

What’s to Love’ is a weekly article featuring interviews of random Olympians to find out what people love and hate about downtown Olympia.  Our city recently won a number of awards.  Now we’ll ask the locals what they love about this place. This week, I’ve turned my focus towards the DASH buses.

Over the past few weeks I have interviewed a handful of random DASH riders to find out how they feel about the public transportation in downtown Olympia. [more]

‘What’s to Love’ is a weekly article featuring interviews of hand-picked locals to find out what people love and hate about downtown Olympia. Our city has recently won multiple awards. Now we’ll ask the locals what they love about this place. This week I focused on gathering public opinions on the controversial ‘Capitol Lake Dilemma’.

This week I have interviewed Steve H. Ridgway, Justin Baumgartner, and one anonymous lake-lover to find out what they think. [more]

‘What’s to Love’ is a weekly article featuring interviews of hand-picked locals to find out what people love and hate about downtown Olympia. Our city has recently won multiple awards. Now we’ll ask the locals what they love about this place.

This week I have interviewed Kevin Laird, Wolven Deahl, and Rob Ross to find out what they think. [more]

‘What’s to Love’ is a weekly article featuring interviews of hand-picked locals to find out what people love and hate about downtown Olympia. Our city has recently won multiple awards. Now we’ll ask the locals what they love about this place.

This week, I have interviewed Brandon, Alex Weisser, and Rosalinda Noriega to find out what they think. [more]

Downtown Together – 09.06.26
For a meeting without an agenda, this morning’s Downtown Together involved lively discussion and generated excellent ideas. After several updates from different downtown organizations, we moved into the latest developments around the estuary. From there the conversation turned to The Port of Olympia’s selection of Tarragon to develop the East Bay area in downtown Olympia, which naturally led to urban development. [more]

To make it easy for everyone, here is a list of all the upcoming “Downtown Together” meetings in June and beyond.

For more information on the event please read this.

I’m not typically drawn to political controversies, which has been my excuse for not attending the Downtown Together meetings. So when I finally decided to show up this morning, I was pleasantly surprised to find the conversation constructive, positive and–dare I say–fun. [more]

Join us for our biweekly (every other friday) meeting of people engaged and excited about Downtown and it’s future!

To make it easier for people to join us, we are now meeting every 2nd and 4th Friday of the month! 

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