Comments on: Former Intel location gets first tenant

By: jocko

jocko — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:28:43 +0000

Be thankful what you can get. As a former participant in the EDC, I was always frustrated because the city government and the state of Colorado were so enamored with our location that they wouldn’t make any concessions. So, they kept their pride but lost the high tech industry in Colorado Springs. At one point, we were promoting this as Silicon Mountain, the Rockys answer to Silicon Valley. Now, with their policies, we can call it High Tech Desert.

By: Eugene Finkelstein

Eugene Finkelstein — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:47:07 +0000

Has anyone thought of making a data center for all the hospitals and doctors who are supposed to participate in it? I assume this may be part of the Health Care bill, but who cares. There’s plenty of work to be done I’m sure to make all items into a commmon format, and storage and retrieval system. Everyone needs to have information on their patients should someone have to go from Memorial to Health South or Penrose,, or even to LA. I think that’s another area that the EDC could get out of town and see what’s going on.

By: Ken G

Ken G — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:29:56 +0000

Great that we’ll have local companies relocating to the new site on GoG….breath of air for the corridor. How about talking to the federal government about reusing much of the space for datacenter operations, operations centers…….Utah just secured a government datacenter project worth $1B, supposedly will create 2,000-3,000 direct jobs, let along the additional jobs from defense contractors and other support organizations to this facility…..imagine if the EDC actually worked for the city and actually worked clients OUTSIDE of Colorado Springs….imagine….’smack’ I’m back to reality.