SPECIAL EDITION

ANNOUNCING CELEBRATE TACOMA

The City of Tacoma is launching development of the Celebrate Tacoma app, which will be able to be accessed on iPhones, androids, tablets and computers.  It is designed to encourage support of local businesses that sell directly to consumers and are licensed and located in Tacoma.  Retail, restaurant/cafes and service businesses will be featured.

To be included in the app, Tacoma retail, restaurants/cafes and service businesses are invited to participate in a user-friendly survey.  Information gathered will help residents and visitors discover the unique array of products and services our businesses offer and encourage local spending.  The app will be promoted through MakeItTacoma.com, our e-newsletter, social media and other platforms.  

The app is expected to go Iive in November 2020.  Sign up now for the fourth quarter shopping season by clicking on the icon below.

Please  share  this  opportunity  with  your  favorite  Tacoma  merchants and service providers.

Together, let's use our community spirit and local market demand to invest in each other by spending locally.  It's about celebrating how special our businesses are as an integral part of Tacoma.  

Celebrate Tacoma!

Note:
Those involved in selling guns, sexual products/services, gambling products restricted by federal law including cannabis, or tobacco products/ electronic cigarettes as well as those outside the City of Tacoma limits will be unable to be featured in the app.  The app is informational only and does not represent a recommendation or endorsement by the City.  

Other Benefits

In addition, we encourage all full service restaurants in Tacoma to access Federal CARES Act funding that Pierce County is providing through the COVID-19 Restaurant Industry Support Ordinance.  The Pierce County Restaurant Rally Program will enable restaurants to offer customers 30% off their meal before tax with the exclusion of alcohol during the Restaurant Rally, which will run from November 8-19, 2020 except Friday and Saturday.  Participating restaurants that apply for and are approved will be compensated for 50% of gross sales, excluding alcohol.  They will receive a minimum of $5,000 up to a maximum of $90,000 from Pierce County.

To be considered for compensation, restauranteurs must apply to Pierce County by October 23, 2020 and meet the following criteria:

• Be a full service restaurant in Pierce County with a NAICS Code of 722511,
• Have opened prior to March 23, 2020 and be currently open,
• Operate in accordance with the Safe Start Washington reopening plan,
• Provide patrons a 30% discount on dine-in meal purchases, excluding alcohol, during the two-week promotional period (November 8-19, 2020 except Friday and Saturday), 
• Submit weekly documentation of gross sales of dine-in meals, and
• Agree to champion the Pierce County Restaurant Rally Program.

Visit www.piercecountywa.gov/restaurantrally to learn more and apply.

(253) 591-2012 phone; (253) 591-5232 fax Jeff Robinson, Director Elly Walkowiak, Assistant Director  MakeItTacoma@cityoftacoma.org   Community & Economic Development Department 747 Market St., 9th Floor, Tacoma, WA 98402

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