Business and Economic Development

2024 Aerospace Local and Regional Impacts Report

Brought in by our partners at Seattle and the Soundside Opportunity Alliance, the 2024 Aerospace Report is now available.

Continued Implementation work

Following on its direction provided in the Implementation Report, the City Council in 2023 adopted Ordinance No. 1054 including amendments intended to focus on rehabilitating the retail and office leasing experience and uses in the city’s commercial areas and to propose amendments to improve regulatory code clarity for redevelopment of commercial, mixed use and mixed use zones through the use of specialized density tools.

 The City of Normandy Park is a beautiful waterfront community offering easy access to SeaTac International Airport and downtown Seattle. With approximately 7,000 residents and covering an area of about 2.5 square miles, the community places its highest priorities on maintaining and enhancing its quiet pedestrian-friendly setting which has created a welcoming and warm environment for small to medium sized family owned businesses as well as many home-based businesses.

For information linking Small Business Owners and Entrepreneurs to Washington State Resources visit www.business.wa.gov.

Business Resources:

• Businesses in Normandy Park
• Business License Application
• Community Development Documents
• Current business development projects
• EDC 2015 Ordinance
• Manhattan Village Redevelopment Plan
• Ten Reasons to Shop the Park

Message From The Normandy Park Mayor

Mayor Sue-Ann Hohimer – 2020

Normandy Park loves its local food service providers! Among many other kind, selfless, and courageous acts, I’m proud of the way our residents have come together to support our local eateries during this challenging time.

Former Mayor Jonathan Chicquette – 2016

The concepts the EDC membership develop are an inspiration of optimism. Our future—as a city—rest within the citizenry and their tireless efforts to sow, grow and nurture Normandy Park’s future position of sustainable revenue.

Former Mayor Susan West And EDC Chair – 2015

The Normandy Park Economic Development Committee is a vital and inspiring group of residents and business leaders who believe in Normandy Park’s future and economic health. I’m honored to be a part of this group of dedicated volunteers who work together to build community, spirit and economic well-being.

Former Mayor Clarke Brant – 2012

This is an overdue effort that has numerous business owners and community leaders who are excited to produce results benefiting our community and its businesses. We welcome your ideas and any efforts to create a healthy, vibrant business community for our two Normandy Park business centers which will invigorate the whole community. Hope to see you at our upcoming meetings.

Top 10 Reasons To “Shop The Park”

1. Protect Local Character and Prosperity
   Normandy Park is unlike most cities in Western Washington. By choosing to support local businesses, you help maintain Normandy Park’s unique and distinctive flavor.
2. Community Well-Being
   Local businesses build strong neighborhoods by sustaining communities, linking neighbors, and by contributing more to local causes.
3. Local Decision Making
   Local ownership means that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.
4. Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy
   Your dollars spent in local businesses have three times the impact on your community as dollars spent at national chains or outside Normandy Park. When shopping locally, you simultaneously create jobs, fund more city services through sales tax, invest in neighborhood improvement and promote community development.
5. Jobs and Wages
   Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do.
6. Entrepreneurship
   Entrepreneurship fuels America’s economic innovation and prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class.
7. Public Benefits and Costs
   Local stores in town centers require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative to big box stores and strip shopping malls.
8. Environmental Sustainability
   Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable town centers – which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution.
9. Competition
   A marketplace of many small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.
10. Product Diversity
    A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices.

Common Questions