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Rumblings Around The Office, Year-End 2024
As I sit in my office and look west, for the first time I can see directly through to the University of Colorado football stadium. Prior to 2024, it was the famed Millennium Harvest House and home to the Rocky Mountain Tennis Center. I can’t begin to count the countless hours I spent on those courts or those F.A.C.s that were so famously memorialized in Newsweek magazine. A year from now, the 600-plus units of student housing will be vertical, and my view will instead be of future CU students who may invent the next cure for cancer or perhaps become the next Heisman Trophy winner.
CU: Colorado’s quantum workforce could hit 10K within decade
“Colorado is home to one of the best workforces in the nation, and this comprehensive quantum roadmap will guide our efforts to prepare skilled workers across the state for the opportunities to come,” OEDIT executive director Eve Lieberman said in a prepared statement. “This is a key step to connect Coloradans to good-paying jobs and ensure our state continues to lead the way developing this transformational, next generation technology.”
Rumblings Around the Office… Q3 2024
As Andy Williams sang, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year,” I know he was not referring to the transition from Summer to Fall or Q2 to Q3 in Boulder. For me, though, this is ABSOLUTELY the best time of the year in Colorado. We are so fortunate to live in a place with four seasons, and no season rivals the Fall. Not to mention, there’s plenty of good news as we roll into year-end.
Top Colorado startups’ fundraising in July doubled 2023’s haul
Colorado’s top five capital raises in July totaled $223.5 million and more than doubled last year’s July total of roughly $93 million.
Ryan, PGIM Real Estate to build industrial buildings near Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport
Ryan Companies US Inc. and PGIM Real Estate, the real estate investment and financing arm of Prudential Financial Inc., are partnering to finance and build a two-building industrial campus near the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield.
University of Colorado lands on U.S. News 2024 list of best medical research universities
WASHINGTON — U.S. News & World Report released its 2024 Best Medical Schools in Research and 2024 Best Medical Schools in Primary Care, reports, naming the University of Colorado among the 16 best medical research schools in the country.
Rumblings Around the Office… Q2 2024
It is funny to me that, on paper, much of our economy is really moving in a good direction. BUT (there is always that BUT), that swing-and-a-miss Leeds Report shows the C-suite is not as positive as in previous quarters. Consumer confidence is declining, there are more houses on the market since 2013, and many office buildings are still see-through. Sounds to me like treading water in the swimming pool, or maybe a really long seventh-inning stretch.
University lands $20M to launch national quantum design facility
A national quantum technology facility will soon be built in Colorado.
The University of Colorado Boulder, the state’s largest college, received a $20 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to open what it is calling the “quantum machine shop of the 21st century.”
In Retail: Will Supply Outweigh Demand?
10-15 years ago it seemed like there was a new frozen yogurt popping up on every corner in Boulder. Now, just one still stands, Ripple. We can’t help but wonder if these three trends below are a fad- like Frozen Yogurt… or if they are here to stay.
Boulder Startup Week: Accelerators play leading role in vibrant ecosystem
BOULDER — For much of the past couple of decades, the Boulder area startup ecosystem — along with the Colorado scene more broadly — has had the reputation of being a scrappy upstart, punching above its weight alongside heavyweight regions such as Silicon Valley, Austin and Boston.
