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December 29, 2016
The city of Tacoma announced that it's one of five U.S. cities to be competitively awarded with ground technical assistance supporting transit-oriented development (TOD), improving access to public transportation, and building new economic opportunities and pathways to employment for local communities. Guidance and resources will be provided by the Federal Transit Administration and Smart Growth America, which the city will use to help in the development of the Hilltop neighborhood. For what it calls the the Links to Opportunity Project, Tacoma previously received a $2 million grant from the FTA to plan for transit and economic development along the Tacoma Link Expansion corridor. (Hilltop is scheduled to have a light-rail station in 2022, which will connect to Seattle in 2030.) In a statement, mayor Marilyn Strickland said, “Smart growth strategies that make Tacoma an even better place to live and work, a solid transportation system, economic development – these things are all connected.”