Community & Sales Event Highlights

Bike, Buggy and Pet Parade at Northwest Landing

To start building community in the early days of development, I created the Bike, Buggy and Pet Parade where we invited kids at Northwest Landing to decorate their bikes, buggy’s and pets and participate in a July 4th parade.  Lots of fun!  Over 25 years later, this is a huge event with floats, police cars, fire engines, school marching bands, fireworks and more!

Symphony in the Park at Northwest Landing

A very popular community building event that drew  hundreds of people (residents and nonresidents) to the town square park each July for several years was the Tacoma Symphony.  It was a night of music, camaraderie and great food that everyone really looked forward to.

Free Wheelers Bike Program at Northwest Landing

One of the goals in the beginning of developing this 3,200 acre master planned community was to get people out enjoying the beautiful property and trails.  We created a Free Wheelers Bike Program where residents and prospects could borrow bikes to enjoy the community trails and scenery. The cost of the bikes was split between the developer and the on-site home builders, and we put the builder logos on the bikes. It was such a popular program, that after a year there wasn’t enough staff to effectively manage the program, so the bikes were given to the individual builders to have on their own individual home site.

Heart & Soles Walking Program

When Northwest Landing was brand new, we wanted to create a sense of community as well as engage residents with the many miles of beautiful walking trails around the community.  I coordinated all the marketing materials and staff to lead the Heart and Soles group once a week with a specially designed trail map and mileage log.  Participants were excited to get milestones checked off on their mileage log while meeting new neighbors and making friends.

Yeleh Village Grand Opening

Three years after building out the first Village, Palisade Village, at Northwest Landing it was time to open the second village…Yeleh Village.  The goal was to give prospects the opportunity to see all the amenities in Palisade Village as well as tour Yeleh Village.  The solution was to hire a fun trolley to enable prospects to easily tour both villages and get on and off throughout the tour at various amenities and home builders. Sales and development team members served as Trolley Guides throughout the two days.  Balloons, giveaways and food rounded out the event.  Everyone really enjoyed the entire concept, and the ability to engage with some of the various development staff was fun for the prospects as well.  Several hundred people toured during the two day event.  A Realtor and press event was held the day before the grand opening with nearly 100 people in attendance.

Article about Northwest Landing

https://www.tndtownpaper.com/Volume7/northwest_landing.htm