The economy may be flagging, but in Tacoma, WA, there is certainly reason for hope. And if you are thinking about relocating to this lively city south of Seattle, more careers seem to be generating, and the quality of life is high. Encouraged by Tacoma’s ongoing Renaissance and undaunted by the existence of 1 of the biggest state-based banks, later this season two startup banks are hatching plans to open up in the City of Destiny. The new finance institutions, the lender of Commencement and Tacoma Bank, aim to open branches in Tacoma’s downtown core, dealing with Tacoma-based Columbia Bank and other established players.
The banks’ market leaders say a booming Tacoma economy, plus a lack of new players, will deliver substantial business opportunities. Hal Russell, who is slated to serve as Commencement’s chief executive and chief executive officer. Russell is a veteran of Columbia Bank or investment company, where he spent 11 years and was a professional vice chief executive before stepping down 2 yrs ago. THE LENDER of Tacoma’s innovator, Michael Hansch, has close ties to the area also.
Hansch spent more than 20 years as older vice president and supervisor for the southwest Washington arm of Bank or investment company of America’s private bank or investment company division. He retired from Bank or investment company of America earlier this season. Many stake in the lender of Tacoma will be held by Capitol Bancorp Ltd., which is headquartered in Lansing, Mich., and Phoenix.
Capitol is experienced in developing community banking institutions and has been spending so much time to expand its presence in the Puget Sound area. Capitol launched the Bank of Bellevue last year and happens to be developing the Bank of Everett. Capitol owns 42 banks in 13 states. 2.4 billion in assets. First, the banking institutions must raise a huge amount of money at a right time when competition for capital could be stiff. 20 million, because of his contacts in Tacoma and to pent-up demand among local bank investors. New banking institutions are usually profitable investments, and “there hasn’t been a bank or investment company stock available in Tacoma in several years,” Russell said.
10 million and, because Capitol provides 51 percent of its banking institutions’ initial financing, the bank or investment company will probably face a smaller fundraising burden than Commencement. The bank opens Once, Capitol will probably follow its standard business plan of offering the bank’s board members and shareholders a one-time stock market after 3 years. Under the conditions of the exchange, Capitol typically trades its own publicly held stocks for the rest of the 49 percent of the stock, at 150 percent of reserve value.
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Commencement will be privately kept and, like most startups, will target medium-sized and small businesses. According to Russell, the bank will immediately concentrate on a broad geographic area including Pierce County, thurston County north, and south King County. So there you own it. Reasons to consider living in Tacoma as a chance for a brand new start.
A more descriptive look may say that some land on the southern part of SH 20 is not easy to get at to LRT stations on the northern side, for example. Nor have I fired up the ‘Overlays’ and looked at what constraints can be found like heritage entries and volcanic viewshafts. Overall, the Dominion Road route addresses more land than the Manukau Road route being much longer.
But Dominion Road has more Single House zone than Manukau Road. Manukau Street has more Terrace Apartment and Casing zoning, Mixed Use and centre-type zoning – all zoning that supports intensive residential development. The Manukau Road corridor also offers more open up space zone land along it, something which may be attractive to apartment-type developments.
Dominion Road has a bigger pool of combined housing zoning, especially its southern calf through Mt Roskill / Three Kings. It would be good to correlate the two routes with the land values that I’ve previously developed in my own trigger point blogs. Left is a ‘temperature’ map from Auckland Council’s GIS showing land beliefs per square meter around the northern area of the Onehunga to city corridor. This data is dependant on 2014 valuation data, so a bit out of date, however the design may be okay. The redder the color, the higher the land value.
Interestingly, the eastern (Manukau Road) side of the isthmus looks like it has higher average land values than the central part. So there are some interesting choices here in conditions of land-use redevelopment. The Manukau Road route appears like it could support more apartment type development and while having a smaller overall ‘redevelopment’ footprint along the corridor because of the shorter route, there may be more housing units overall. And these products would better suit a metropolitan form of taller structures close to the corridor.
