Interlocken got parkway ball rolling

BROOMFIELD – The first consultant representing Sun Microsystems’ interest in locating here called Don Dunshee at 10 in the morning on Aug. 2, 1995. And, yes, the Northwest Parkway had already shown up on all the maps, the president and chief executive officer of the Broomfield Economic Development Corp. acknowledges.

The reality is – then and even today – that the Northwest Parkway, which nearly every local official involved says is nearly a done deal, still has not received the final approvals needed to proceed.

But Dunshee says other issues were more important to Sun’s expansion decision than the proposed parkway.…