Economic study gives counties info on where they might seek future jobs

Local government leaders and their economic developers were handed some heavy reading for the new year in a statewide “opportunities analysis” detailing leading business sectors in each of the state’s 64 counties and “target” industries where new jobs might be created.

As several economic developers lined up at a Denver press conference to help unveil the $100,000 study, it seemed clear there is some digesting to do of the nine-month project prepared by the business research team from the University of Colorado at Boulder Leeds School of Business. But the report clearly arms developers with current data in a race where…