March 1, 1996

Springs eco-devo puts Fort Collins to shame

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Rockwell International Corp. recently announced its intention to build a new $2 billion semiconductor facility in Colorado Springs. This brings a sharp contrast to the jobs-creation problem faced by Northern Colorado.
The Loveland expansion of Colorado Memory Systems, now a division of Hewlett-Packard Co., may be the most notable achievement in base-jobs creation for the tri-city region during the entire decade of the R90s.Colorado Springs’ economic-development community rallied to overcome recent Department of Defense cutbacks. It succeeded in recruiting a company that creates technology for the future. Their new base jobs will bring direct payroll dollars as well…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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