September 19, 2011

Milestones Icon: Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport

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It seems hard to imagine, but the dusty airfield now known as Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport was so small when it was built that planners decided it did not need a control tower.

The airport – BJC to pilots – has come a long way since it opened on July 30, 1960, with a ceremony attended by President Dwight Eisenhower.

Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport is now one of the five busiest airports in Colorado and handles about 128,000 takeoffs, landings or flyovers a year. A 2008 study by the Colorado Department of Transportation estimated that the airport and related economic activity create…

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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