20th Anniversary: From software to glass: NBI survives, evolves

EDITOR’S NOTE: As The Boulder County Business Report celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2001, each issue will take a look back at major business events of the past 20 years. Each of these stories will be reprinted in a special Business Report 20th Anniversary issue in November. By Nancy Nachman-Hunt

BOULDER — While the rest of Colorado was getting a second economic wind, Boulder County in 1990 was still feeling effects of a technology sector downturn. Retail sales were some of the lowest in the Denver metro area, the commercial real estate market was still soft, and one more technology giant…