Superior Area Information

February 5, 2013 by

Superior Area Information

For the first century or so of its existence, Superior was a quaint little town. Now, after two decades of rapid growth, Superior continues to remake itself.

Superior was one of the fastest growing communities in the 1990s, as the Rock Creek Ranch subdivision was built. The residential development added more than 4,000 homes, raising the town’s population from about 250 in the early 1990s to more than 12,000 residents today.

As the town grows, residents and leaders are looking to diversify its economy and develop a central business district. Plans for the Superior Town Center, a 160-acre mixed use urban area, have been in the works for more than 15 years.

The project would sit southeast of Hwy 36 and McCaslin Boulevard interchange. Proposals and concept plans have been created, and the planning commission and town board will be reviewing them later this year.

The population boost starting in the 1990s helped give rise to the 600,000 square foot Superior Marketplace retail center, southwest of Hwy 36 and McCaslin Boulevard. The center features Super Target, Costco, Whole Foods, PetSmart, and numerous other retailers and restaurants also drawing customers from nearby Boulder and Louisville. On the southern end of town, several private developers are planning to build a mix of projects including office, retails, hotel, and residential developments with some land still available.

And nearby, the Rock Creek Village, anchored by Safeway, has a mix of restaurants and retail businesses.

It’s not all about development in Superior though. The town along the Front Range mountain foothills has bout 60 acres of open space, more than a handful of parks, and 29 miles of trails.

Superior Profile:

Square miles: 4.3

Population: 12, 483

Household: 4,496

Median household income: $96,130

Median home sales price: $361,700

Median age: 32.5

School districts: Boulder Valley School District

City, county, state sales taxes: 8.26 percent

Top public employer: Boulder Valley School District

Electricity: Xcel Energy

Online Resources

City of Superior: www.superiorcolorado.gov

Superior Chamber of Commerce: www.superiorchamber.com

Economic Development Contact/Incentives

Matthew G. Magley, Town Manager

303-499-3675 mattm@superiorcolorado.gov

The town of Superior has adopted a financial incentive policy that offers financial assistance to new and existing businesses that generate a minimum of $250,000 in new annual revenue to the town or create a minimum of 25 new jobs.

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Nederland Area Information

February 3, 2013 by

Nederland Area Information

Nederland, Colorado is a town like no other. Tucked in the Rocky Mountains just west of Boulder, Nederland has a history rich in mining and music and a future as the hub of the Peak to Peak Community. With our unique shops, amazing outdoor beauty, friendly locals, and vibrant music scene, Nederland is definitely not your average small town. Whether you live here, work here, or play here, we’re sure that you’ll discover that life’s better up here!

 

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Lyons Area Information

February 3, 2013 by

Lyons Area Information

Lyons, Colorado, located in Boulder County, is an idyllic bedroom community that is home to approximately 2,000 people. It is nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Just 15 minutes to the east is Longmont, Colorado, and to the south is Boulder, home of the University of Colorado. In approximately 30 minutes, one can visit the quaint resort town of Estes Park, which is famous for, among other things, the Stanley Hotel, featured in the movie, The Shining.
Open Space within walking and biking distance of Downtown, Lyons has a well-deserved reputation as a recreational mecca for locals and visitors alike. Music lovers also know Lyons as the home of Planet Bluegrass and the RockyGrass and Rocky Mountain Folks Festival concerts. But Downtown Lyons has a soundtrack of its own; from the Sandstone Summer Concert Series to the commercial venues that feature live music year ’round, Lyons hums with musical talent.
Longmont and Boulder are favorite venues for shopping and dining. Lyons is also known for its fine dining experiences, due to its top-notch restaurants and dining establishments.
The Lyons schools, from elementary through high school, are considered to provide exemplary education, as part of the St. Vrain School District.
For additional information about picturesque Lyons, please visit the following links:
http://www.townoflyons.com
http://downtownlyons.com
http://www.rockymtretreats.com/lyons.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyons,_Colorado

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Louisville Area Information

February 2, 2013 by

Louisville Area Information

There is no better place to live and/or raise your family than Louisville, according to several national editors.

In the last few years, Louisville has been named the Number 1 best place to live in the United States. In 2006, authors Bert Sperling and Peter Sanders assured that Louisville was the Number 1 best place to raise your family. In 2009, Money Magazine ranked it the Number 1 place to live.

The city is also a great place to do business. Louisville touts its location along Hwy 36 with quick access to Denver, Boulder, and Denver International Airport via Northwest Parkway.

The city has two major business parks, with a range of buildings for high end corporate use to research and development industrial operations. Both parks have room to grow.

The 400 acre Colorado Technology Center is home to a variety of small and large businesses and developers continue to help build out the development park. The Centennial Valley Business Park on the west side of the city has about 80 acres left to develop.

Along with its strong business climate, Louisville maintains a strong sense of community, which helps attracts its nations accolades as great place to live.

Louisville has a historic downtown, with shops, unique restaurants and quality office space. A new 32,500 square foot library was built downtown in 2006, further enhancing traffic to downtown.

There are nearly 8,000 households in Louisville through a mix of mostly single family neighborhoods.

Louisville offers its residents a variety of retail opportunities, from locally owned shops and restaurants on Main Street to big-box retailers such as Lowe’s and Kohl’s along the McCaslin and South Boulder Road corridors.

Louisville has its own recreation center, sports leagues, dog park and the 18 hold Coal Creek golf course. The city also is home to one of four hospitals in the Boulder Valley-  Avista Adventist Hospital.

 

Louisville Profile

Square miles: 7.9

Population: 19,400

Median household income: $69,945

Median home sales price: $359,000

Median age: 37

School district: Boulder Valley

City, county, state sales taxes: 8.25 percent

Top private employer: Avista Adventist Hospital (635)

Top public employer: City of Louisville (153)

Electricity: Xcel Energy

 

Online Resources

City of Louisville: www.louisvilleco.gov

Louisville Chamber of Commerce: www.louisvillechamber.com

Louisville Economic Development: www.louisvillecolorado.biz

 

Economic Development Contact/Incentives

Aaron DeJong, Economic Development Director

303-335-4531 aarond@louisville.gov

 

The City of Louisville customizes business assistance to the needs of the company. Forms of assistance may include permit fee rebates, construction use tax rebates, and sales tax rebates. All the rebates are based on new dollars generated by the project at move in and/or during the first three to five years of operation. Assistance is based upon need, high quality development, retaining jobs, creating  jobs with average salaries above the city average, retaining existing sales tax, creating new sales tax, bringing industry or retail diversity, or using an existing building.

 

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Longmont Area Information

February 1, 2013 by

Longmont Area Information

Longmont is Boulder Valley’s second most populous city, and it offers businesses room to grow at an affordable price.

The city lies in the northeast part of the county, with 20 minute access to Boulder via the Diagonal Highway and 45 minute access to Denver and Fort Collins via Interstate 25.

Longmont’s economic development team focuses on attracting primary jobs to the city or companies whose products and services are sold outside the area. This brings outside dollars to Longmont to help fuel prosperity.

The city has become one of the main hubs for computer and data storage in the United States. Hard drive makers Seagate Technology LLC and Western Digital Corp. have significant presences in Longmont, along with more than 20 other IT hardware companies, including Dot Hill Systems Corp., and Intel Corp. Longmont also has several industry clusters with employment exceeding 500 including software biotech, business services, semiconductors and food processing. Micron Technology Corp has just opened a 43,000 square foot facility.

Longmont has also realized a data center concentration in recent years. American Honda Motor Corp has one of its main data storage facilities here. West Corp., Xilinx Inc., and Ongoing Operations have set up data centers and Dallas based Broadband Utilities Inc. recently built three new 50,000 square foot data storage centers.

Longmont also hosts numerous other big name national firms such as Amgen Inc.,  DigitalGlobe Inc., STMicroelectronics and GE Energy.

Technology companies favor Longmont for its educated work force, economic incentives, lower real estate prices and electric rates.

Longmont is the only city in the Boulder Valley with its own municipal electric company, Longmont Power and Communications, which saves users an average of 30 percent on electrical costs compared to the rest of Colorado.

Real estate prices, both commercial and residential, can be nearly half the prices in nearby Boulder. This allows businesses and families to affordably live and work in Longmont.

There’s also room to grow for new developments. The city provides a variety of mostly single family neighborhoods, including “Prospect New Town,” a sustainable urban neighborhood with a mix of old style and modern homes.

Longmont provided its residents with plenty of retail options, inducing downtown Main Street shopping, the soon to be redeveloped Twin Peaks Mall, and big box stores such as Wal-Mart, Target, best Bust, Home Depot and Lowe’s spread throughout the city.

The city has its own recreaction center, cultural theater, one price and three public golf courses, and an outdoor sports complex at Sandstone.

Longmont United Hospital, one of four hospitals in Boulder Valley, provides a full range of top ranked medical care.

The Saint Vrain Valley School district provides kindergarten through 12th grade public education throughout the city, and Front Range Community College’s Boulder County campus is based here.

Longmont is services by the Regional Transportation Districts bus service and eventually may be served by its FasTracks commuter rail service. FLEX buses operated by the City of Fort Collins’ TransFort system connect Longmont and RTD commuters with Berthoud, Loveland and Fort Collins.

Online Resources

City of Longmont: www.ci.longmont.co.us

Longmont area Chamber of Commerce: www.longmontchamber.org

Longmont area Economic Council: www.longmont.org

Economic Development Contact/Incentives

John Cody, Longmont Area Economic Council, President/CEO

303-651-0128 laec@longmont.org

Brad Power, Director of Economic Development for City of Longmont

303-651-8481 brad.power@longmont.org

The city of Longmont offers a variety of business incentives for new and expanding companies. Companies can recover 30 percent in building permit fees, 50 percent of personal property taxes, avoid the first two years of sales and use taxes on research and development equipment, with the option of an additional three year rebate on these taxes, enjoy a permanent exemption on sales and use taxes for manufacturing equipment, take advantage of expedited permitting and gain development density bonuses. The city may also help developments with establishing tax increment financing.

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Lafayette Area Information

January 31, 2013 by

Lafayette Area Information

Located in eastern Boulder County at the crossroads of Colorado Highway 7, US highway 287 and the Northwest Parkway, the city of Lafayette has a major hospital, several big name retailers and office and industrial business parks.

The city’s business friendly amenities support a great place to live, mostly single family neighborhoods surrounded by parks and the Indian peaks Gold Course, and 18 hole Hale Irwin designed public course.

The Exemple Good Samaritan Medical Center has spurred commercial growth in the southwest portion of the city. The full service hospital has more than 200 beds and room to grow. The first new medial building on the hospital campus opened in the first half of 2012. It features a new infusion treatment center for cancer patients.

Just to the North of Exemple, along U.S. 287, is 82 acres of underdeveloped land known as the SoLa development, (south of Lafayette). Two hotel sites have been approved for the 28 acres of commercial land closest to 287. Future phases of the project are expected to include a mix of retail, restaurants and medical offices and services related to the hospital. Another 20 acres of land farther away from the 287 is set aside for office and commercial business park uses, as well s buildings that house services for seniors.

So far, the Prana 264 unit apartment complex has been built on the site, and other 240 unit complex named Prasana is coming soon. A Dairy Queen/Orange Julius is open closet to 287, and the city is building a fire station nearby.

Class A office space often sought after by companies is available throughout the city, including at the new Creekside Offices at Old Laramie Trail. The distinctive 8,500 and 4,500 square foot buildings feature natural stone, glass and vaulted roofs in a Colorado ski lodge style. On the east side of the city, Vista Business Park has 14 acres open for development of industrial and flex office building space.

Just south of exempla, Lafayette’s Corporate Campus 119 acre office park is home to some its most well known employers, from Kaiser Permanente to Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc Office of Epsilon and Meretek Diagnostics Inc also are located there.

The Lafayette Tech Center 59 acre office and industrial park has more regional heavy hitters companies, from U.S. office of Lafuma Corp to Sporian Microsystems Inc.

Lafayette also has established history with its Old Town Lafayette Main Street area, featuring local shops and restaurants. Locals and visitors enjoy annual festivals that speak to the hometown nature of Lafayette, including the Quaker Oatmeal Festival, the Summer Fun Fest, Peach Fest, Celebrate Lafayette and Home for the Holidays.

Lafayette Profile

Square miles: 9.3

Population: 24,453

Households: 10,306

Median household income: $62,079

Median home sales price: $304,000

Median age: 36

School district: Boulder Valley School District

City, county, state sales taxes: 8.25 percent

Top private employer: Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center (1,310)

Top public employer: City of Lafayette (300)

Electricity: Xcel Energy

Online Resources

City of Lafayette: www.cityoflafayette.com

Lafayette Chamber of Commerce: www.lafayettecolorado.com

Economic Development Contact/Incentives

Phillip Patterson, Community Development Director

303-665-5588 or phillipp@cityoflafayette.com

Lafayette officials work with representatives from companies one on one to discuss potential economic incentives. There is no set package of economic incentives for new or existing employers.

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Broomfield Area Information

January 29, 2013 by

Broomfield Area Information

 

I

t might be too early to say that Broomfield is booming, but the city clearly is back in business. New luxury apartments, new Class A office buildings and new corporate headquarters are sprouting up in Broomfield.

Broomfield is a major player in Boulder Valley’s economy. It is the third largest city in the area and has the distinction of being its own county. It houses some of the area’s largest private-sector companies, with the majority of the region’s Class A office space. It has its own small area, the 1st Bank Center, and its population continues to climb with a mix of high-end and affordable living options.

Broomfield’s midway location along Highway 36 allows it to easily attract a labor force from both Boulder and Denver. The city also stretches east to access Interstate 25, and Northwest Park Way to Denver International Airport.

During the past decade, developers have built up Broomfield’s western side and along Hwy 36 into a mix of first-class office parks, hotels, apartments, shopping and entertainment.

The Interlocked Advanced Technology Environment is the area’s premier office park with a variety of real estate on 900 acres. It included the soon to be completed Eos at Interlocken, a Class A building with 186,000 rentable square feet and LEED Gold pre-certification.

Originally developed in the 1980’s, Interlocken hit its stride during the late 1900’s tech boom. The park is home to the headquarters of Level 3 Communications Inc, Vail Resorts, Webroot Software Inc, Oracle, and Staple Inc.

The business park also includes two four star hotels – the Omni Interlocken Resort and the Renaissance Boulder Suites and Flatirons, and the Omni, a 27 hole championship golf course.

Flatirons Crossing, Flatiron Marketplace and Main Street and Flatiron along Hwy 36 provide Broomfield with more than 2 million square feet of mall shopping, big box stores including Nordstrom, Dillard’s, Macy’s, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Best Buy, and Wal-Mart Super Center, and dining opportunities. Also nearby is the modern 150,000 square food Lakeshore Flatiron Athletic Club.

The Arista Mixed-use and entertainment neighborhoods is the latest development along Hwy 36. It features the 1st Bank Center, which has a scalable capacity from 3,500 to 6,500 attendees. The surrounding neighborhood is envisioned to include 1,500 residential units, 150,000 square feet of office space, 55,000 square feet of larger bix-box retail space, a 1,500 stall parking facility, a Regional Transportation District bus rapid-transit station and numerous parks and pedestrian walkways.

The area already includes a 140-room 5,658 square foot boutique hotel, the Alof Hotel, that opens mid 2009.

On the northern edge of  Broomfield, along I-25, Northern Colorado based developer McWhinney is in the process of developing its 932 acres of land within the Anthem neighborhood. The developer envisions a 20-40 year build out of commercial projects, including an applied research center. The residential portion of Anthem is slated to include up to 3100 homes.

Broomfield has next-door access to Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Jefferson County with corporate jet services. The city is served by RTD bus routes and is slated to have a FasTracks commuter rail station in the future.

With the ConocoPhillips Co constructing a 2.5 million square foot campus in nearby Louisville, other developments are in the works to help accommodate the growth.

 

Broomfield Profile

Square Miles: 33.6

Population: 55,889

Households: 21,414

Median household income: $75,590

Median home sales price: $276,750

Median age: 37

School districts: Adams 12, Boulder Valley, Brighton, Jefferson County, Weld county school districts

City, county, sales taxes: Varies by location – 8.25 percent to 8.45 percent

Top private employment: Oracle Corp

Top public employer:  City and County of Broomfield

Electricity: Xcel Energy and United Power

 

Online resources

City and County of Broomfield: www.broomfield.org

Broomfield Chamber of Commerce: www.broomfieldchmaber.com

Boulder Economic Development Corp: www.broomfieldedc.com

 

Economic Development Contact/Incentives

Stephanie Salazar, Broomfield Economic Development Corp, President/CEO

303-469-7645 stephanie@broomfieldedc.com

 

Bob Martinez, Director of Economic Development, City and County of Broomfield

303-464-5579 bmartinez@broomfield.org

 

Broomfield evaluated economic incentives for businesses on a case-by-case basis. Incentives include use and personal property tax rebates and assistance in expediting projects thorough the city’s and county’s approval process. Officials will consider jobs, salaries and quality of developments in their decision making process.

 

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Boulder Area Information

January 17, 2013 by

Boulder Area Information

Boulder offers the perfect mix: A laid-back college town with big-city business smarts.

The city’s approximately 100,000 residents work and play against a mountain backdrop that includes the iconic Flatirons, and the “back range” Indian Peaks Wilderness Area with its snowy Arapaho Glacier. More than 30,000 of those residents attend the University of Colorado- Boulder with its picturesque campus.

Boulder’s unique setting and its high percentage of residents who wear Spandex belies the high concentration of companies in the aerospace, bioscience, data-storage and software industries. National corporations such as IBM Corp., Ball Aerospace & Technologies Inc., Lockheed Martin Corp., Covidien Inc., Corden Pharma International Inc. and Google Inc. are there. They city also has many professional and technical service companies and considers itself a center for alternative and renewable-energy research and natural and organic businesses, among other things.

Boulder’s natural attributes and support from peer companies draw many entrepreneurs to the city. Here, they start and grow new businesses, attracting a good amount of startup and venture-capital funds. In fact, the companies in Boulder drew more venture-capital, per capita, than companies in any other nation, based on industry statistics.

These innovative companies reflect the intellectual energy found in Boulder, which is supported by the University of Colorado, several major federally funded science laboratories and one of the nation’s percentage of residents with college degrees as well as a high quality of life.

CU-Boulder is the Rocky Mountain regions largest and most-comprehensive campus. It offers 3,400 courses, boasts four Nobel laureates and works extensively with private businesses through it Technology Transfer Office.

Boulder’s quality of life largely helps attract and keep the city’s educated work force. After work, residents can frequent local shops and restaurants or head straight into the mountains for hiking in the summer and skiing in the winter.

Boulder’s vibrant historic downtown features the Pearl Street Mall, an award-winning pedestrian shopping, dining and entertainment destination. More retail and restaurants can be found in the city’s central corridor surrounding the Twenty-Ninth Street retail district. The city has more than 400 restaurants, including several that have received national acclaim.

With a resident symphony, four museums, 32 movies and stage theaters, numerous festivals and more than 30 art galleries. The city is a haven for culture. Boulder also offers highly ranked public and private schools, three city recreation centers and one of the regions four hospitals, which has two main campuses.

At the edge of these urban attributes, Boulder prominently features the natural outdoors. The city owns more than 45,000 acres of mountain and plains open space, with more than 200 hiking and biking trails.

Boulder Profile

Square miles: 25.5

Population: 103,606

Households: 43,878

Median household income: $57,231

Median homes sales prices: $567,500

Median age: 29

School district: Boulder Valley

Sales tax: 8.16 %

Top Private Employer: IBM (3,400)

Top Public Employer: University of Colorado- Boulder

Electricity: Xcel Energy Inc.

Online Resources

City of Boulder: www.bouldercolorado.gov

Boulder Chamber: www.boulderchamber.com

Boulder Economic Council: www.boulderbusiness.org

Economic Development Contact/Incentives

Clif Harald, Executive Director, Boulder Economic Council

303-786-7567 clif.harald@coulderchamber.com

Liz Hanson, Business Liaison, City of Boulder

303-441-3287 hansonl@bouldercolorado.gov

The city of Boulder’s Economic Vitality Program supports efforts through public and private sources to help businesses grow and remain in Boulder.  Incentives include flexible tax and fee rebates for primary employers, a microloan assistance program, and parks and recreation discounts for all employees in Boulder. The program provides business assistance services and business retention and outreach efforts.

 

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Pearl Street Boulder Colorado

October 23, 2012 by

Pearl Street is not only a popular place for tourists while visiting Boulder but it is also one of the most popular destinations for locals as well. Whether you are looking for good food, funky shopping, live entertainment, night life, or a fun family day, Peal Street in Boulder has something for everyone. What was once the main hub for commerce and mining supplies for surrounding areas Boulder’s Pearl Street is now a posh artistic collection of local retailers and merchants. With that being said it is still a major economic contributor and source of pride for residents.

The four block stretch of Pearl Street is surrounded by some of the oldest homes and buildings in Boulder. Popular surrounding neighborhoods include the historic Mapleton Hill Neighborhood, The Whittier Neighborhood, and the Flatirons. Homes in these neighborhoods are fairly expensive but all have increased land values with many also have an historic value as well. Real estate prices vary because of this just as widely as styles of homes do in these areas which results in an abundance of home buying options.

The University of Colorado Boulder is located just a few blocks from Pearl Street which helps to keep a constant flow of customers and tourists coming. For this reason most businesses and industries in this area are extremely successful. The local booming economy is one of the main reasons why people relocate to Boulder and Pearl is a perfect example of Boulder’s self propelling economic market.

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