Toyer Strategic Consulting – Creators of the Toyer Framework® and Micgrowpolitan™

Are You Ready for 2019?

It's time for annual board retreats and 1-3-5 year planning. We can facilitate your readiness for for 2019 and beyond.

The Consultant for Micropolitans

Our firm's economic development practice specializes in helping Micropolitan Statistical Areas maximize their growth potential.

Need a Business Attraction Program?

We help communities and economic development organizations (EDOs) identify and attract targeted industries.

Identify Your Top Assets

Want to accelerate economic development in your community? Contact us about an asset inventory. We'll identify your top economic development assets and position you for maximum growth.

Are You Telling Your Story?

From basic marketing to public information campaigns, our team of professionals can help you understand your audience and get your message out.

You Can Turn to Us for Solutions

Why are we so good at problem solving? Because our firm's core competencies of land use, economic development, communications and government relations are highly complementary. By understanding the connectedness of processes, policies, politics and personalities, we don't just identify how to solve the problem, we know how to avoid the obstacles of putting the solution to work.

What's a Micgrowpolitan™?

What's a Micgrowpolitan™? It could be your community if you're one of the 550 designated Micropolitan Statistical Areas (μSA) in the U.S. We've created a specialized set of economic development services to transform your Micropolitan into a Micgrowpolitan™ - a high growth center prepared to compete against your peers for new business investments and job creation.

CAUTION: Plans Shouldn't Sit on Shelves. . .

Plans shouldn't sit on shelves and results should be more frequent than a Bigfoot sighting. Before you start on your next strategic planning expedition, contact us about the Toyer Framework® - our unique approach to economic development strategic planning.

Land Use & Permitting

With two decades of land use entitlement experience, you can trust us to guide you through the process and avoid costly delays. From rezones and variances to zoning opinions and annexations, we save you time and money.

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Three of the Worst Plans We’ve Seen

By dkendellto December 5, 2018 December 5, 2018 Planning, Project Management, Strategic Planning

A number of years ago Sinbad was in a movie called “Houseguest” and without getting into the entire story line there is this moment where Sinbad’s character is presenting pictures of bad teeth to an assembly of students, bringing about ewws and ooohhs. This slideshow is the planning equivalent. Check it out and then check out this recent LinkedIn article by David Toyer, our founder, that addresses the flaws in planning which result in bad plans like these. Continue reading

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Toyer Supports Proposed Logistic Park

By dkendellto November 16, 2018 November 16, 2018 Business, Clients, Consulting, Economic Development, Project Management, Real Estate Development, Site Selection

This week, Toyer Strategic successfully held a community meeting with property owners adjacent to a proposed logistics park in Lacey, Washington. Toyer is one of the project consultants supporting the entitlement of the Hawks Prairie Logistics Park – a project that would create around 1.9 million square feet of warehousing and distribution space on 131 acres. An economic impact analysis produced by our firm estimates that the project could result in nearly 900 direct, indirect and induced jobs at full-build out of all phases of the project. Lacey, Washington has a population just over 49,000 and sits on the Interstate 5 (I-5) corridor south of Tacoma, Washington and immediately north of Olympia (the state capitol). Continue reading

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Welcome Anna to the Team

By dkendellto November 13, 2018 November 16, 2018 Consulting, Economic Development, Marketing

We’re excited to announced that Anna Leidl has joined our team as a research intern and will be supporting a number of our economic development and marketing projects. Anna, a native of Saskatchewan, Canada, is a sophomore at Iowa Wesleyan University where she is double majoring in Psychology and Marketing while playing volleyball and softball for the Tigers. Learn more Continue reading

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Highlights from Spencer Economic Forum

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By dkendellto November 9, 2018 November 10, 2018 Clients, Consulting, Economic Development, Micropolitan, Project Management, Strategic Planning

Check out some highlights from the Spencer Economic Development forum our firm conducted on November 5th. Clip is courtesy of Spencer Municipal Utilities.