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As Boomers Age, Developers Ramp Up for ‘Gray Tsunami’
Baby boomers have influenced trends for more than seven decades and continue to do so as more enter their senior years. And the impact is significant when it comes to senior living communities. Born from 1946 to 1964, the oldest of the post-World War II generation is now estimated at about 73 million people in […]
Good Company: Mike Shand, CEO of Bron Tapes
Mike Shand joined Bron Tapes as a sales representative in San Diego in 2003. The company manufactures, customizes and distributes adhesive tape of all kinds to industries ranging from aerospace to construction to film. Its Killer Red Tape is trademarked as “the world’s best double-sided tape.” The 150-employee business now[...]
Top Company 2022: Consumer Business
The outpouring of applications for this year’s Top Company awards is a testament to the resilience and adaptability of enterprises that do business in the state. Applications for the 35th annual awards numbered in the hundreds, and it was particularly encouraging to see so many companies rebounding from two years of COVID rest[...]
Voting With Our Feet
The world of community economics includes Charles Tiebout’s 1956 theory suggesting people “vote” on private products with their pocketbooks and vote on government services with their feet. If you do not like what you are getting from the government, move to a different jurisdiction. Twenty years later, Albert Hirschman int[...]
Live Music: Sounds Good to Colorado Economies
Morrison’s legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre sold 505,312 tickets in 2007. That number soared to 1.3 million in 2021 and could top 1.5 million in 2022, according to Denver Arts & Venues. Over the last five years, out-of-staters bought 42 percent of tickets to Red Rocks shows. Those people book hotel rooms, eat meals, and ot[...]
Via Ferrata: Colorado’s Next Big Outdoor Vertical?
Via ferrata may be the biggest outdoor recreation business you’ve never heard of. Translated, “iron ways” started in the late 1800s as a secure way to climb and traverse mountainsides in the Italian Dolomites. Today, Colorado contains the largest concentration of via ferratas in North America. Via ferratas give adventure s[...]
Outdoor Retailer, We Hardly Knew You
After five short years—two plodding through the pandemic—the trade show for the country’s biggest outdoor brands is departing Denver. The city will lose big bucks—hundreds of millions—and associated global attention as an outdoor mecca. Outdoor Retailer’s twice-a-year event stretched from downtown Colorado Convent[...]
Colorado’s Competitive Spirit is Alive and Well — Celebrating CoBiz’s Fall 2022 Print Issue
There is a hint of seasons’ change blowing in the wind. No, it’s not Fall yet, but it is football season. Nonetheless, this isn’t about the Walton-Penner Group, the new owners of the Denver Broncos, or their new quarterback, Russell Wilson. It’s about the spirit of competition that’s in the air. They say a friendly [&h[...]
GenXYZ 2022: Finalists (11-15)
This year’s Top 25 Young Professionals vary in their backgrounds and their professional pursuits – they’re leaders in banking, real estate, nonprofits, law, entrepreneurship and architecture, to name just a few. Some are lifelong Coloradans who couldn’t conceive of living anywhere else; others are transplants from the [...]
GenXYZ 2022: Finalists (6-10)
This year’s Top 25 Young Professionals vary in their backgrounds and their professional pursuits – they’re leaders in banking, real estate, nonprofits, law, entrepreneurship and architecture, to name just a few. Some are lifelong Coloradans who couldn’t conceive of living anywhere else; others are transplants from the [...]
GenXYZ 2022: Simone D. Ross
This year’s Top 25 Young Professionals vary in their backgrounds and their professional pursuits – they’re leaders in banking, real estate, nonprofits, law, entrepreneurship and architecture, to name just a few. Some are lifelong Coloradans who couldn’t conceive of living anywhere else; others are transplants from the [...]
GenXYZ 2022: Neil Fisher
This year’s Top 25 Young Professionals vary in their backgrounds and their professional pursuits – they’re leaders in banking, real estate, nonprofits, law, entrepreneurship and architecture, to name just a few. Some are lifelong Coloradans who couldn’t conceive of living anywhere else; others are transplants from the [...]
