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Companies find quality workforce, infrastructure in region
Several firms announced corporate headquarters relocations or expansions to the region this past month:
- Gordon Holdings, Inc., parent company of Polystrand, Inc. and Gordon Composites, Inc.,
announced plans in June to move its corporate headquarters and expand its Montrose, Colo.-based Polystrand business to Douglas County. The company purchased 15.6 acres in the HighField Business Park for its new 120,000-square-foot headquarters and manufacturing facility where it will create as many as 240 new jobs. » more
- Intrawest ULC, a leader in developing and managing experiential destination resorts, picked a site in Lower Downtown Denver for its new headquarters in June. The company announced in early 2011 that it planned to move its corporate headquarters from Vancouver, Canada, to Denver.
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- eWise, a global payments and online financial management solutions provider, received $14 million in venture capital in June. eWise's technology powers global brands such as U.S. Bank, and this funding enables the company to accelerate its plans to transform the payments landscape. eWise moved its corporate headquarters from Sydney, Australia, to Denver in April.
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- CNA, one of the country's largest commercial insurance providers, hosted a grand opening for its new 50,000-square-foot Western Service Center in Lone Tree on June 8. CNA officials say they chose the region because of the quality of the workforce. CNA will employ 300 workers at the new center.
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- SolarCity, a California-based residential and solar panel leasing company, opened its second Colorado location in Parker in May 2011 with 21 new staff. The new facility has warehouse facilities, a truck fleet, and space for the company's administrative activities.
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- Alpine Access, a Denver-headquartered customer service outsourcing firm, announced in May that it opened a 22,000-square-foot technology and operations lab in the Denver Tech Center. The company will hire 50 new employees for the lab, which will provide IT services and operations support for home-based customer care professionals.
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- DCP Midstream LLC
announced in May that it will build a new $270 million, 110 million-cubic-feet-per-day (MMcf/d) natural gas processing plant in the town of LaSalle in Weld County. The new plant, which will be in service by mid-2013, will augment DCP Midstream's prominent position in the Denver-Julesburg Basin, where it currently owns and operates seven natural gas processing plants with a combined capacity of 400 MMcf/d. » more
Learn more:
» News and Deals on metrodenver.org
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CAMT selects ACE Manufacturing Innovation Park developer
Project to establish Colorado as a global 'innovation center' in aerospace and cleantech
The
Colorado Association for Manufacturing and Technology (CAMT) announced on June 10, the selection of United Properties,
a national developer with offices in Denver, as CAMT's development partner for the Aerospace and Clean Energy (ACE) Manufacturing and Innovation Park proposed for the former Agilent site in Loveland, Colo.
CAMT, a statewide manufacturing assistance center dedicated to increasing the competitiveness of Colorado manufacturers, signed a five-year Space Act Agreement with NASA to develop technology acceleration programs and a framework for regional collaboration promoting innovation and job growth, known as the ACE Regional Innovation Cluster.
As part of this initiative, CAMT is partnering with United Properties to develop the former Agilent facility in Loveland into a multitenant campus that can house more than 70 companies with a focus on scale-up stage aerospace and clean energy manufacturing and technology companies.
The initiative and park will create a significant number of jobs over the next five years across the state. The ACE Regional Innovation Cluster is already receiving recognition across the United States and internationally as one of the only projects that addresses the technology transfer gap between research and development, and scaling up aerospace and clean energy manufacturing efforts.
"Aerospace is a key economic driver for Colorado and one that we are working to expand. The ACE Park in Loveland is a great example of how Colorado's aerospace, innovation, and technological expertise are converging to bring jobs and revenue to our state," said Governor John Hickenlooper.
Tom Clark, executive vice president of the Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation, said, "Colorado's vision of becoming a global center for energy and aerospace gets another crucial component with the announcement of the next phase of the ACE project. 'Innovation clusters' such as space and energy need an intellectual and physical infrastructure to accelerate their growth and maintain global competitiveness. The ACE project will provide both."
Learn more:
» Entire news release on metrodenver.org
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ACE Park details on camt.com
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Nation's largest solar testing site opens in Aurora
Six public and private sector entities, all with interest in advancing and accelerating the commercialization of solar technology, joined forces to develop one of the nation's largest solar test and evaluation facilities in Colorado. Leveraging the exceptional solar resources already in existence in Colorado, the development site, Solar Technology Acceleration Center
(SolarTAC), officially celebrated its grand opening on June 7, 2011.
SolarTAC's member companies comprises public and private sector entities dedicated to advancing the commercialization of solar technology, including Xcel Energy, Abengoa Solar, SunEdison, The Alliance for Sustainable Energy, Amonix, and EPRI.
SolarTAC's business concept allows members to sponsor a wide-range of research projects, from research that is completely proprietary to research that is shared between members and research that is available to the public. SolarTAC is also open to research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and by the national laboratories such as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) located in Golden.
"SolarTAC will allow companies to test products for efficiency and durability. It will get ideas from the laboratory to consumer's hands faster," said Governor John Hickenlooper, who attended the grand opening event. "We're fortunate to have this national resource in our backyard, helping to keep Colorado's economy moving forward."
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