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Small But Fast-Growing Town Sees Largest Mixed-Use Development Ever

YELM, WA-The complex, being constructed by Yelm Prairie Development Co. on property it owns at 701 Prairie Park Lane, will provide the community with an eight-screen cinema, a restaurant, retail outlets, office space, a library branch, a 48-room hotel expansion, and a fitness and conference center, if all goes as planned.

By Ingrid Ricks | Updated on October 12, 2000

YELM, WA-An ambitious $25 to $30 million retail development, the largest ever embarked on in this rural town 15 miles east of Olympia, is setting the stage for what local officials hope will be a commercial development boom.

Being constructed by Yelm Prairie Development Co. on property it owns at 701 Prairie Park Lane, the project will provide the 3,000-person town with an eight-screen cinema, a restaurant, retail outlets, office space, a library branch, a 48-room hotel expansion, and a fitness and conference center, if all goes as planned. The cinema, the first phase of the project, is expected to open its doors December 15, with the remaining construction slated for completion in two to three years.

“We did a market study on everything we are doing and know that everything we are planning for is needed,” says John Thompson, a spokesperson for Yelm Prairie Development Co. “Yelm is the fastest growing city in Thurston County and has been for a decade. And even though it’s small population wise, there are a lot of people in the outlying areas so it has become a big service area.”

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