Greeley, Fort Collins, Boulder metro areas make ‘Best Performing Cities’ list

Greeley leaped five spots nationally this year and was top-ranked in Colorado on the Milken Institute’s 2015 list of the best-performing cities, which is touted as showing “where America’s jobs are created and sustained.”

The Milken Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank based in Santa Monica, Calif., released the rankings Tuesday. The rankings compare cities based on things such as job creation, wage gains, and technology trends that shape current and potential patterns of growth.

The rankings looked at two divisions: Large City, which included the 200 largest metropolitan statistical areas in the country, and…