Topeka: A Place for All

Similar to Momentum 2022, Topeka and Shawnee County’s new five-year strategy is oriented around a set of top-line goals and underlying objectives that contain key initiatives designed to achieve desired outcomes represented by a holistic set of performance and activity benchmarks. Our goals and objectives are rooted in the belief that Topeka is a place for all.

a place to live
a place to prosper
  • Housing for All
  • Active Core & Neighborhoods
  • Arts & Recreation
  • Retain & Expand
  • Launch & Develop
  • Promote & Attract
a place to learn
a place to belong
  • Cradle through Career
  • Access to Opportunity
  • Engaged & Empowered
  • Proud & Aware
  • Recruit & Retain Talent

Objectives:

Housing for All: Support for development of new and rehabilitated for-sale and rental housing across all styles and price points to make Greater Topeka a more competitive location for talent.

Active Core and Neighborhoods: Continuing the community’s renaissance through ongoing downtown revitalization and renewed support for diverse, well-maintained, thriving, safe, and sustainable neighborhoods.


Arts and Recreation: Making Greater Topeka a more dynamic community of choice by enhancing local arts facilities and programs and developing new active recreation amenities.

Objectives:


Retain and Expand: Provision of customized, high-value existing-business retention and expansion programming and services to advance growth and talent-acquisition needs.


Launch and Develop: Support for entrepreneurship, innovation, and small business development through new facilities, programs, and ecosystem-building activities.


Promote and Attract: Implementation of marketing and business-recruitment programming and developer-engagement activities to successfully attract employers in targeted, well-paying sectors.

Objectives:


Cradle through Career: Coordination of support services and programming from birth through career to guarantee that students graduate ready for post-secondary education or the workplace.


Access to Opportunity: Ensure that adults seeking to access training for new or improved employment opportunities have the support and guidance necessary to succeed.

Engaged and Empowered: Building a culture of equity and inclusion to enable all residents to live fulfilling lives through access to quality education, wealth-creating employment, and positions of influence and leadership.


Proud and Aware: Improving levels of pride by equipping stakeholders with the knowledge, information, and perspective to tell positive stories about local assets and opportunities.


Recruit and Retain Talent: Enhancing workforce competitiveness by attracting skilled workers and retaining local talent through engagement in personal, professional, and community networks.