As one door closes, another door opens

By the time you read this, the Northern Colorado Business Report will be settled into its third location.

We started out over 15 years ago in the old Fort Collins Post Office, the building that now houses the Fort Collins Museum of Art. We occupied three different spaces there before we moved up the block to 141 S. College Ave., upstairs from Old Chicago, just over nine years ago.

Now, with the realization of the goal held by my business partner Chris Wood and myself for all these years – sole ownership of the newspaper – it’s time for another relocation. And this one has taken us closer to the center of Northern Colorado.

The new address is 1550 E. Harmony Road, Suite 200, Fort Collins, 80525. The physical location is the second floor of the Guaranty Bank Building on the northwest corner of Harmony and McMurry Ave.

The good news is that in the past decade and a half, technology has advanced to allow us to keep all of our phone numbers and email addresses intact, so only our snail mail communications have been affected.

The better news is that our new location is 50 percent closer to Loveland and 10 percent closer to Greeley than our downtown office. That makes it more convenient for our staff to meet with sources and advertising clients and attend networking functions region-wide. It also makes some of their daily commutes easier, since NCBR staffers live throughout Larimer and Weld counties, from Livermore to Greeley. The cyclists who live downtown are getting that much more training in daily.

There is a downside, of course. The energy of Old Town, the proximity of the Larimer County offices that we watched go up from our back windows and the neverending variety of pedestrian traffic right by our front door has been an important part of NCBR since the beginning. A quick trip over to the coffee shop usually turns into a half-hour impromptu meeting with someone – or several someones – you know who just happened to be on the street at the same time. I’ll miss that, it’s true.

But I look forward to opening a new chapter in the continuing story of NCBR. Chris and I are dedicated to moving the properties we jointly own under BizWest Media LLC – NCBR, Boulder County Business Report, Wyoming Business Report and Datajoe – forward into new ventures online, in print and in person with a robust website, award-winning newspapers, and vibrant events members of the business community can’t afford to miss. It’s only fitting that we launch this new chapter in a new space.

I want to thank the entire NCBR staff for all their efforts to get from there to here, especially our office manager Tiffanie Moore who coordinated the month-long expedition and worked long hard hours to make it happen on time. We also managed to produce this edition of the Business Report without missing a beat, something we will keep on doing from our new home for many years to come.

Jeff Nuttall is the publisher of the

Northern Colorado Business Report and manager/member of BizWest Media LLC.

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