September 30, 2005

Intel gives vote of confidence to region’s high-tech sector

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It’s more than a real estate deal. Intel Corp.’s Sept. 15 announcement that it would purchase the soon-to-be-vacant Celestica Colorado building on East Harmony Road signals a vote of confidence in Northern Colorado as a high-tech hub even as the region continues to lose technology jobs.

Those losses are well-documented. Most notably, Celestica is abandoning Fort Collins and laying off about 800 full-time and part-time workers. LSI Logic Corp. has pared its local payroll dramatically. Hewlett-Packard Co. and Agilent Technologies continue to slash their work forces worldwide, though the local impact is unclear. Advanced Energy Industries Inc. has cut hundreds of…

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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