Lowe’s puts Cheyenne on national radar

Officials look to expand business parks

CHEYENNE — With the coming of a huge Lowe’s Cos. Inc. home-improvement distribution center, Cheyenne is suddenly on the national radar screen with site selectors and local economic developers are planning to capitalize on their new visibility.

And with Lowe’s taking up a fifth of the Cheyenne Business Parkway, officials of Cheyenne LEADS, Cheyenne and Laramie County’s economic-development corporation, are accelerating their search for additional space, anticipating more good things in the future.

“I think we’ve stepped over the threshold and we’re into a positive growth period,´ said LEADS president Jack Crews. “We’ve created an adequate critical…