The Minute Logging Town Of Hoquiam Evaluates The Future And Its Riverfront

A town needs to grow and change to survive, and often this can be a tricky thing. Often a town is settled for one particular reason and then, years later, finds it needs to learn a new trick in order to stay viable, which is inevitable. How this town goes about remaking itself says a lot about how industrious the town itself is, but it also serves as a reflection on us and our modern times.

Look at the town of Hoquiam, Washington; it’s a town going through changes. Established as a logging town, it maintains that history with events such as the Loggers’ Playday. On top of that, there’s a logging competition and accompanying parade every fall. So while it’s important to preserve and celebrate a town’s past, it’s also necessary, sometimes, to invent new traditions.

Consider the city’s waterfront. This stretch of city in downtown has been underused since its previous heyday in the 1980s. Now that some development has taken an interest in it, there’s a possibility for it to become a much more colorful and vital part of the local community. It can’t be all logging contests and lumber festivals, after all.

Imagining a waterfront lined with shops and restaurants and hotels helps us think about how to make a town more profitable — both culturally and financially. Developing the waterfront area has done great things for cities such as San Antonio and Baltimore. This town could be like these cities in having an attractive downtown with plenty of cultural resources. On top of that, there’s the Hoquiam River itself, a naturally beautiful site where people can enjoy the environment while enjoying a drink, maybe some dinner.

There’s another reason for the city to develop its waterfront. There’s a kind of long-running rivalry with its bigger neighbor to the east, the town of Aberdeen. These bigger towns often get more development opportunities, more tax money, than its smaller sister. Like the older sibling who gets all the new stuff while the little sister has to play with old toys. So it’s in Hoquiam’s interest to develop that downtown waterfront into a place friendly to locals and tourists alike, if for no other reason than it could give Aberdeen something to thing about.

It is important to hang on to heritage and history. It’s also important to reach out to new opportunities. Small towns like Hoquiam should be unafraid of change — the best cities straddle centuries, after all.

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