Comments on: Looming larger: Huntsville threat http://csbj.com/2010/10/22/looming-larger-huntsville-threat/ Fri, 24 May 2013 15:39:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Buddy Gilmore http://csbj.com/2010/10/22/looming-larger-huntsville-threat/comment-page-1/#comment-43239 Buddy Gilmore Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:50:51 +0000 http://csbj.com/?p=35183#comment-43239 One of the things Huntsville does very well is dream big dreams – something Colorado Springs seems to have trouble doing. The have a vision to be “Cyber Huntsville” – what do we have? Nothing on that scale. A simple exercise: click on the link to Huntsville’s briefing on the cyber initiative. Replace “Huntsville” with Colorado Springs, then replace references to “cyber” with any of the four focus areas from operation 6035 – renewable energy, for instance. Flow-down the information from that subject, throughout the briefing. Now you have a vision and a way to get here. We need to perform this kind of exercise BEFORE we start talking about a $1B Business Park.

Pueblo is bringing in huge wind farms. Alamosa will soon be home to the largest installation of concentration photovoltaic solar arrays in the U.S. In addition, our own utilites company is performing innovative methods for energy. The military is also looking at energy efficiencies. We have a strong talent pool of engineers, and wonderful academic institutions. We are centrally located. I can go on and on, but the point being we can continue to sing “woe is me” or we can step up to the challenge.

You want a business park? Right now we have landowners close to the airport who will lease land for $1/acre in perpetuity to support this kind of project. We have large, local developers who want to partnership with the city on a project such as this. And finally, there is federal money available to develop “regional innovation clusters” – R&D parks (this was confirmed at a recent meeting with the Chamber and Economic Development Association in D.C.).

It’s time to lead, follow, or get the heck out of the way.

]]> By: Ken G http://csbj.com/2010/10/22/looming-larger-huntsville-threat/comment-page-1/#comment-43230 Ken G Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:41:51 +0000 http://csbj.com/?p=35183#comment-43230 Here’s a recommendation – start negotiating with United (not Express) or another airline for a twice weekly DIRECT flight from COS – Huntsville…….

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