Whenever a town ages, it has to adjust too, to avoid stalling out, fading away. Regularly a township has been implanted in a location to fulfill some particular ethnic or economic motive, and if those days elapse, the town has to vary its game. Simply the way a town changes is a phenomenon well worth paying attention to, for it says a lot about the changes in our humanity at large.

Hoquiam, Washington is an interesting model of these changes. In the Beginning a logging township, it continues to observe its heritage with an internationally known phenomenon called Loggers’ Playday. And in the fall there is a logging contest and a parade to further remind the population how they got there. While maintaining these traditions is important, sometimes it’s indispensable to invent something innovative.

Take, for instance, the Hoquiam waterfront. The stretch of river in Hoquiam’s downtown hasn’t been much used since the 1980s. Now that some development has taken an involvement in it, here’s a possibility for it to become a much further colorful and chief region of the local area. Hoquiam can’t just rely on logging contests forever — there’s got to be more to a town’s life than that.

There’s plentiful area on the Hoquiam waterfront for new amenities such as shopping and amusement, features that make a metropolitan a terrific area to visit. A high-quality waterfront area has done lots for other cities, notably San Antonio and Baltimore. For those towns, comparable to Hoquiam, this area becomes a normal place to congregate, to frame in shops and dining opportunities. The river itself becomes a major attraction, a natural feature that lends the downtown its own exclusive beauty when giving the general public a place to have a drink.

There’s another good reason to consider its development options. There’s its bigger neighbor to the east, Aberdeen, with whom the town has a kind of rivalry. Bigger towns tend to get the better opportunities, often more money from the state, than the smaller town. Older siblings always get the new stuff while littler kids get the hand-me-downs. But so if they thinks about what they want to become and applies that vision in creating a lovely downtown waterfront, it can show that next-door neighbor how great a town can be.

A town’s history is important, but so is its future direction. New ideas need to be embraced. Hoquiam, like many small towns, needs to be brave in embracing its possibilities for that future — it can preserve its history even as it evolves.

The excellent town of Hoquiam takes stock in the future and takes to the water, check out the lead developer Wade Entezar.

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