Posts By: Naomi Layland

Celebrate Modesto and it’s 150 Year Heritage

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During the 2020 calendar year, the city of Modesto will hold a sesquicentennial celebration – Modesto150 – consisting of a series of community events.  Across the city, organizations and communities are encouraged to participate! The goals of the Modesto150 celebration are to: Embrace civic pride through a celebration of the city’s history. Strengthen the role… Read more »

A New Look for Progress and A New Approach for Your Chamber

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We hope that as soon as you picked it up, you noticed something different about this month’s Progress Magazine. A dedicated team has been working, behind the scenes, to create a new marketing strategy for the 100+ year old Modesto Chamber of Commerce (MCC). Every aspect of the Chamber’s new marketing strategy was designed with… Read more »

Tenant Improvement Tuesday – Permit Streamlining Program Goes Live

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The City of Modesto’s Building Safety Division and Fire Department are collaborating to offer a new streamlined permitting program to our customers to expedite smaller, less complicated indoor retail and office type tenant improvements. In the past, this permitting process could sometimes take weeks to get plans approved, due to back-and-forth cycles of comments and… Read more »

The Amazing Downtown Renaissance

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Downtown Modesto is buzzing with life every day of the week. With restaurants, banks, theaters, clubs, and shops of all kinds, it’s no wonder the area is so busy. This wasn’t always the case, however, and what we see now when we walk downtown is an outstanding recovery of our city’s core. Modesto is one… Read more »