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Colorado tourism adapts to travel shifts with new strategies
This article appeared in the 2026 issue of ColoradoBiz titled "Colorado tourism shifts strategy amid travel changes.' Tourism has long been Colorado’s lifeblood, acting as a $28.5 billion economic engine that sustains nearly half a million jobs from the peaks of the Rocky Mountains to the sweeping Eastern Plains. But federa[...]
Tire mountain and Colorado’s waste tire recycling challenges
This article appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of ColoradoBiz titled "Tire Mountain: Colorado’s Recycling Conundrum." In 2020, a tire fire broke out in Hudson, Colorado, about 30 miles northeast of Denver. Not just any tire fire, mind you: It was a tire fire at the largest tire dump in the United States. The Hudson tire mon[...]
The Economist on business ethics and profit in Colorado
This column appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of Colorado Biz titled "The Economist: The Ethics of Profit." Not long after receiving my MBA, I began teaching at Regis University in Denver. I was teaching business and economics when the program director asked me to teach a course in Business Ethics to adult undergraduates. [...]
Business Litigation
Welcome to the Spring 2026 Colorado 500. What began as a snapshot of influence has grown into something broader, more textured, more reflective of the many forces shaping Colorado’s business landscape. The people you’ll find here are not defined by titles alone. They are builders and problem-solvers, risk-takers and steady hands. Som[...]
State of the State: Montezuma County’s Dotty Wampus opens whimsical chocolate factory tour in June
This article appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of ColoradoBiz titled "State of the State: Dotty Wampus." After running Lost Spirits, a Las Vegas distillery with an immersive circus show, for more than a decade, Bryan Davis and Joanne Haruta decided it was time for a change. “We went, ‘Let’s do something small,’” says Davis[...]
Business Law
Welcome to the Spring 2026 Colorado 500. What began as a snapshot of influence has grown into something broader, more textured, more reflective of the many forces shaping Colorado’s business landscape. The people you’ll find here are not defined by titles alone. They are builders and problem-solvers, risk-takers and steady hands. Som[...]
Business Consultants & Accountants
Welcome to the Spring 2026 Colorado 500. What began as a snapshot of influence has grown into something broader, more textured, more reflective of the many forces shaping Colorado’s business landscape. The people you’ll find here are not defined by titles alone. They are builders and problem-solvers, risk-takers and steady hands. Som[...]
State of the State: The Rattery in Englewood offers rat adoptions with care packages
This article appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of ColoradoBiz titled "State of the State: The Rattery." Rats have something of a bad reputation. Detractors blame them for everything from urban blight to the bubonic plague, but there are two sides to every story. Just ask Jax Elder, founder of The Rattery in Englewood. “They[...]
Arts & Entertainment
Welcome to the Spring 2026 Colorado 500. What began as a snapshot of influence has grown into something broader, more textured, more reflective of the many forces shaping Colorado’s business landscape. The people you’ll find here are not defined by titles alone. They are builders and problem-solvers, risk-takers and steady hands. Som[...]
Startup of the Month: Endolith in Arvada raises $16.5 million to boost copper extraction
This column appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of ColoradoBiz titled "Startup of the Month: Endolith." Company: Endolith, Arvada www.endolithmining.com Founded: 2022 Endolith Mining With a PhD in astrobiology, Endolith CEO Liz Dennett is passionate about microbes. “They’re the Earth’s oldest miners,” she says. “Th[...]
Architects
Welcome to the Spring 2026 Colorado 500. What began as a snapshot of influence has grown into something broader, more textured, more reflective of the many forces shaping Colorado’s business landscape. The people you’ll find here are not defined by titles alone. They are builders and problem-solvers, risk-takers and steady hands. Som[...]
Agriculture
Welcome to the Spring 2026 Colorado 500. What began as a snapshot of influence has grown into something broader, more textured, more reflective of the many forces shaping Colorado’s business landscape. The people you’ll find here are not defined by titles alone. They are builders and problem-solvers, risk-takers and steady hands. Som[...]
SportsBiz: Community input shapes Denver Broncos stadium plans in Burnham Yard
This article appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of ColoradoBiz titled "SportsBiz: Retraction reaction." Here are two things Denver Broncos fans covet when it comes to the team’s successor stadium, likely to be planted in central Denver’s historic Burnham Yard neighborhood. A retractable roof. Lots of trees We know wh[...]
Made in Colorado: SEND Bars in Boulder offers organic plant-based snack bars
This article appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of ColoradoBiz titled "Made in Colorado: SEND Bars." A world-class competitive rock climber, Sasha DiGiulian says SEND Bars grew out of her own need for healthy snacks. “I started making my own bars over a decade ago because there was nothing on the market that had clean, real food in[...]
Made in Colorado: Reroot Outdoors makes custom bike bags in Boulder
This article appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of ColoradoBiz titled "Made in Colorado: Reroot Outdoors." A self-described “recovering engineer,” Shan Wo is a longtime mountain biker. “I also use my bike as my main form of transportation,” she says. “I love riding bikes.” Wo started making bicycle bags for herself and frien[...]
Made in Colorado: The Cow Lot revives Western wear brand with Denver store
This article appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of ColoradoBiz under the title "Made in Colorado: The Cow Lot." The late Nat Fleming started his career shaping cowboy hats in Texas and opened The Cow Lot, a Western wear shop, in Wichita Falls in 1952. The shop closed more than a half-century later, but Glenn and Karen Orms resurrec[...]
Aerospace
Welcome to the Spring 2026 Colorado 500. What began as a snapshot of influence has grown into something broader, more textured, more reflective of the many forces shaping Colorado’s business landscape. The people you’ll find here are not defined by titles alone. They are builders and problem-solvers, risk-takers and steady hands. Som[...]
Made in Colorado: Kineo Mountain Woodsmithing grows woodworking business
This article appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of ColoradoBiz titled "Made in Colorado: Kineo Mountain Woodsmithing." Then an emergency paramedic, Blake Evans got into woodworking in 2021. “I was clearing out my garage and picked up a hobby, and then it grew pretty rapidly,” he says. Evans started making furniture and house[...]
Insurance costs challenge Colorado housing projects
This article appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of ColoradoBiz titled "Insurance roils housing projects." “Insurance has become a four-letter word,” laments Josh Marinos, COO and principal of Formativ, a Denver-based real estate developer. “Year over year, it’s probably gone up 10 to 12%, if not more.” Formativ has focused o[...]
Colorado experts share dos and don’ts of AI adoption
This article appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of ColoradoBiz titled, "From the Experts: The Dos and Don’ts of AI." AI is part hype and part revolution, and it’s often difficult to separate one from the other. That’s often because AI encompasses so many different technologies, ranging from large language models and chatbots[...]
