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Highlighting the people & happenings in the 253.
This first ever First to Ten wasn’t a major event. We didn’t want it to be. It was designed to feel like one of those games from back in the day. A little unscripted. A little underground. Just real ones showing up to hoop.
Before the bloom, there’s the burying. The quiet work, the unseen hours, the effort that unfolds far from applause.
The most effective strategies for growing locally-rooted businesses have taken a new form.
Grit City Knives is renowned for producing some of the finest handmade blades available.



In 2023, eTc Tacoma joined us as a marketing partner on the adventure that became the Ten of Us. The project culminated in a bass-driven, hip-hop forward documentary-style film, coffee table book, and a series of events.
Ruston Way was busy as usual when a fresh voice broke through the usual hum of passing cars. It was John, an artist filled with excitement but with a sense of experience, tuning his guitar beneath the warm spring sun. His first busking performance? No one would have known.