September 19, 2011

Milestones Icon: Leon A. Wurl

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To state that former town administrator Leon Wurl, who literally died in office on Jan. 30, 1998, helped bring Erie into the 21st century really doesn’t tell the story, because in many ways he first had to bring the town into the 20th century.

When the town board brought in Wurl in 1994, he was already an icon among civic officials, having transformed Aspen in the 1960s and Louisville in the 1970s and 80s. But Erie very much was the crowning achievement of his civic restorations.

When he came to Erie, both the water treatment and sewage plants were failing or failed.…

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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