by Amy Gillentine Published: June 16,2011
Tags: Economic Development
Business leaders say work is just beginning as lobbyist lays groundwork, eyes money Colorado Springs’ new federal lobbyist has yet to produce any tangible monetary benefits to the city, but the broad coalition of business leaders that hired her aren’t concerned yet. “It takes months and months,” said Stephannie Finley, president of government affairs for the Greater [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: June 10,2011
Fountain Creek could be a big economic driver for the Pikes Peak region — but it needs some serious work first. Public officials and utilities workers are considering plans to upgrade the creek, which include turning part of it into a recreational draw similar to what Pueblo has done with its Arkansas Riverwalk, which winds [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: May 20,2011
Tags: Economic Development
Oklahoma City doesn’t have much in common with Colorado Springs — but that’s exactly why the Chamber of Commerce wanted to pay the city a visit. The chamber and 50 civic and business leaders returned last week from a trip to OKC to measure the city’s success, and to see whether Colorado Springs can duplicate [...] [...]
by Thea Skinner Published: May 13,2011
Tags: Economic Development, Romero
Gov. John Hickenlooper’s “bottom-up” economic plan isn’t rocket science, but local economic development officials are pinning their hopes on the plan’s ability to revive Colorado’s faltering economy. Dwayne Romero, newly appointed executive director of the state’s Office of Economic and Development and International Trade has spent his first months on the job traveling more than [...] [...]
by Jonathan Easley Published: March 11,2011
Tags: Angelou, Economic Development, Operation 6035, Phil Lane
Two years after Operation 6035 was launched, a key group is being formed to implement its recommendations. Other than that, there’s little hard evidence of any progress since the initial economic development strategy was published. Phil Lane was appointed to head the operation in February 2010, and he acknowledged the program hasn’t unfolded as swiftly [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: February 25,2011
Tags: 26th National Space Symposium, Colorado Association of Manufacturing and Technology, Economic Development, NASA
While Colorado Springs missed out on an aerospace manufacturing park planned for the metro-Denver region, the city will be considered for a satellite location. The Colorado Association of Manufacturing and Technology entered a partnership with NASA to create the Aerospace and Clean Energy Manufacturing and Innovation Park last December. The business site, designed to shorten [...] [...]
by Jonathan Easley Published: December 31,2010
For the first time in decades, the City of Colorado Springs will enter the new year without a dedicated economic development team. The team had played an important role in helping the privately funded Colorado Springs Regional Economic Development Corp. in attracting new companies and retaining existing businesses, a mission that became increasingly urgent in [...] [...]
by Jonathan Easley Published: December 31,2010
Tags: Economic Development
There is money and fame for any contrarian willing to stand in the face of popular sentiment and boldly call the top of a bubble or the bottom of a crash. But that hasn’t been incentive enough for anyone in the region to step up and trumpet a full-fledged real estate recovery for 2011. Of [...] [...]
by Rob Larimer Published: December 10,2010
Tags: Economic Development, Hickenlooper
Gov.-elect John Hickenlooper has announced that he plans to replace Don Marostica as director of Colorado’s Office of Economic Development and International Trade. The Denver Business Journal reports that Marostica was told Wednesday by John Huggins, co-chairman of Hickenlooper’s transition team, that the incoming governor has decided to do a clean sweep of his Cabinet posts and [...] [...]
by John Hazlehurst Published: September 20,2010
Tags: crime, Economic Development, poverty, Quality of Life Indicators
The Pikes Peak United Way released its fourth annual Quality of Life indicators report today, a 124-page study that offers a snapshot the health of the community. The overall picture is not pretty. In a nutshell, the region’s job growth is not keeping up with the population, wages have dropped, childhood poverty is growing and [...] [...]
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