Briefcase – October 2018
BRIEFS
While supplies last, Fort Collins Utilities is offering free high-efficiency toilets to qualified commercial water customers. Under the program, customers pay only for the installation. Toilets must be installed at a Fort Collins Utilities commercial water service address by an approved contractor. For more information and additional eligibility requirements, call 970-416-4371, email aneel@fcgov.com, or visit fcgov.com/free-efficient-toilets.
Moody’s Investor’s Service upgraded the town of Erie’s general-obligation bond rating. The bonds issued by the general fund were assigned a new rating of “Aa1”, reflecting an upgrade in credit quality from the previous rating of “Aa2”, Moody’s second-highest rating.
Woodward Inc. (Nasdaq: WWD) declared a dividend of slightly more than 14 cents per share for the quarter. The amount, which is exactly $0.1425 per share, will be payable on Nov. 27 for stockholders of record as of Nov. 13. Woodward designs and manufactures control system solutions and components for the aerospace and industrial markets.
SPONSORED CONTENT
Several community organizations will host the 2018 Boulder Job Fair from 3 to 6 p.m. Oct. 9 at the Millennium Harvest House hotel, 1345 28th St. Expected to be present are more than 30 employers representing more than 2,000 job vacancies in a variety of industries, with both management and entry-level positions available.
CLOSING
International House of Pancakes closed its restaurant at 1002 S. College Ave. in Fort Collins on Sept. 9 after operating there since 1974.
La Madeleine French bakery and café, 1236 S. Hover St. in Longmont, closed in July after less than a year in operation in the Village at the Peaks. The 5,025-square-foot cafe employed approximately 45 people and was operated by La Madeleine franchise owner Dan McReynolds. A location of the Dallas-based chain was expected to open this year at the Foothills shopping center in Fort Collins. That restaurant has yet to open.
Old Chicago Pizza & Taproom permanently closed its doors on Aug. 26 in Old Town Fort Collins after more than 30 years in the location. Earlier this year, the chief executive of parent company, CraftWorks Restaurants & Breweries Group Inc. stepped down. The restaurant chain closed its flagship location in Boulder in December 2016.
Al’s Newsstand, opened in 1947 at 177 N. College Ave. in Fort Collins, closed Sept. 15.
Revolution Market closed so its owners can instead focus on the expansion of their artisan ice pops business. The Old Town Fort Collins shop at 130 W. Olive St. closed its deli and grocery portion and will be revamped into a production and retail facility for Revolution Artisan Pops. Revolution Artisan Pops, which also runs a food cart, is scaling up its production to supply new wholesale accounts with Whole Foods and the Colorado State University dining halls.
CONTRACTS
Sphero Inc., a Boulder-based robotics firm, is partnering with Facebook to expand students’ opportunities for computer-programming education. As part of the Facebook-led CodeFWD initiative, an online video and activity program for students, the companies will provide free Sphero BOLT Power Pack to a select number of applicants.
The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research signed an agreement with the National Science Foundation to continue management of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder for five years. The agreement is worth up to $630 million, depending on the availability of funds.
Advanced Energy (Nasdaq: AEIS) is renewing its partnership with Innosphere as a member of the incubator’s Corporate Partner Program. Corporate partners are given exclusive access to exploring strategic partnership opportunities with members of Innosphere’s portfolio.
Vaisala Corp., a Louisville-based manufacturer of weather equipment, worked with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, both in Boulder, to track Hurricane Florence. Together, the three entities make and analyze dropsondes — lightweight cylinders made of plastic and cardboard that are equipped with weather sensors and a parachute. The dropsondes were dropped above Florence and provided data about the storm. Also, Boulder-based Earthvisionz married data about properties and assets onto maps, then displayed real-time information about conditions affecting those assets.
Ball Aerospace signed an exclusive license agreement to be the sole manufacturer for certain cameras for the defense and aerospace industries. Ball will manufacture the Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode, or GmAPD, light detection and ranging (LIDAR) cameras in a license agreement provided by Argo AI, which acquired the former manufacturer of the technology, Princeton Lightwave Inc., on Oct. 17.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is partnering with Phoenix-based Banner Health to provide services at Banner’s hospitals in Loveland and Greeley.
The a2 Milk Co., an Australian and Boulder-based manufacturer of easily-digestible milk, signed a distribution deal with Walmart. Through the deal, a2 Milk will be available in Walmart stores in New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas, Maryland and Washington, D.C.
DEADLINES
Leadership Northern Colorado is accepting applications for its 2019 class through 5 p.m. Nov. 1. A joint initiative of the Fort Collins, Greeley and Loveland chambers of commerce, the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado and the Community Foundation Serving Greeley and Weld County, Leadership Northern Colorado was established to build human capacity and to identify, define and address the issues facing the Northern Colorado region. The 2019 Program is being sponsored by Kaiser Permanente. The tuition for the six-month program is $850 and includes all meals, session materials and graduation recognition. Applications can be sent by email to LeaderNoCo@fcchamber.org or completed online.
EARNINGS
Amalgamated Bank, which acquired New Resource Bank in May, posted higher revenue for the second quarter of fiscal year 2018 compared with the same period last year. New York-based Amalgamated (Nasdaq: AMAL), a full-service commercial bank and chartered trust company with operations in Boulder, reported net income for the quarter that ended June 30 of $11.6 million, up from $2.3 million in the second quarter of 2017. Amalgamated saw quarterly deposit growth of $874.5 million. Of that total, the bank attributed $361.9 million to the New Resource acquisition.
DMC Global Inc. (Nasdaq: BOOM), based in Boulder, declared a quarterly cash dividend of 2 cents per share payable on Oct. 15 to shareholders of record as of Sept. 30. The company’s most recent quarterly report, for the second quarter of 2018, showed that sales were a record $80.9 million, up 71 percent from the same quarter of the year prior. Net income was $6.4 million.
First Western Financial Inc. (Nasdaq: MYFW), with headquarters in Denver but branch banks in Boulder and Fort Collins, reported second-quarter results this week, including a decline in revenue from the first quarter of 2018 but an increase over the second quarter of 2017. Gross revenue was $14.5 million for the second quarter of 2018, compared with $14.7 million for the first quarter of 2018 and $13.1 million for the second quarter of 2017. Gross loans, excluding mortgage loans held for sale, were $842.6 million at June 30, compared with $817.3 million at March 31, 2018 and $741.3 million at June 30, 2017. Total deposits were $843.7 million at June 30, compared with $818.2 million at March 31, and $772.9 million at June 30, 2017. Total assets under management were $5.42 billion at June 30, compared with $5.36 billion at March 31, and $5.11 billion at June 30, 2017.
Webroot Inc., a cybersecurity company based in Broomfield, has reported 12 percent annual recurring revenue growth for its fiscal year ending on June 30. The growth marks the company’s 18th consecutive quarter of double-digit gains. Webroot’s business segment annual revenue growth grew by 25 percent, and its consumer segment grew by 6 percent. Both were higher than industry measures for those segments. Webroot also reported that it ended the fiscal year with 12,800 managed service providers, up from 9,400 at the end of the 2017 fiscal year.
Zayo Group Holdings Inc. (NYSE: ZAYO) posted fourth-quarter earnings of 18 cents per share. The Boulder-based telecom company grew its revenue 3 percent year-over-year to $657.6 million, beating analyst expectations by $1.66 million. Net income for the quarter was $43.8 million, nearly double what the company made in the fourth quarter of 2017, $23.2 million. The company’s net income for the year was $101.9 million, up from $85.7 million in 2017. Earnings per share for 2018 were 41 cents, up from 35 cents per share in 2017. Revenue for the year was $2.6 billion, up from $2.2 billion in 2017.
KUDOS
Breweries from the Boulder Valley and Northern Colorado won a dozen medals at the 2018 Great American Beer Festival in Denver. Gold-medal winners included High Hops Brewery in Windsor, Gilded Goat Brewing Co. in Fort Collins, Left Hand Brewing Co. in Longmont, B.J.’s Restaurant & Brewery in Boulder and New Belgium Brewing Co. in Fort Collins.
UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital was re-designated as a Magnet hospital, making it one of just 11 hospitals in the world to have achieved this recognition at least five times. It is the only hospital in Colorado to receive the designation so far in 2018.
Game On! Sports 4 Girls, a Chicago-based program that expanded to Boulder several years ago, received a 2018 Rings of Gold award from the U.S. Olympic Committee.
Greeley resident Bob Tointon was named the 2019 Citizen of the West, the top honor awarded by the National Western Stock Show. The annual award recognizes those who embody the spirit and determination of the Western pioneer and perpetuate the West’s agriculture heritage and ideals. A committee of community leaders selects the recipients.
Sara Miller, program operations manager for Workforce Boulder County, won the Workforce Champion award at the recent Rocky Mountain Workforce Development Conference.
The Colorado Bioscience Association named Cetya Therapeutics Inc. winner of its venture showcase at the Colorado Life Science Innovation Forum. The Fort Collins-based company develops targeted cancer treatments through the commercialization of largazole analogs by inhibiting histone deacetylases (HDACs). HDACs are used in psychiatry and neurology as mood stabilizers and anti-epileptics; Cetya is using them for targeted cancer treatments and are using the enzyme largazole to do that. Two other Colorado companies competed in the event: Brava Diagnostics of Boulder and Velóce Corp. in Fort Collins.
Ball Corp. (NYSE: BLL) is listed on the 2018 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices World and North America for the sixth year in a row. The company scored high on categories such as product stewardship, occupational health and safety, codes of business conduct and environmental reporting.
Seven researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research won awards and fellowships from the American Meteorological Society. Fei Chen, an NCAR senior scientist, will receive the Helmut E. Landsberg Award recognizing an individual or team with exemplary contributions to the fields of urban meteorology, climatology or hydrology. Chen is recognized for leading the development of the WRF-Urban Modeling System, as well as for his contributions to researching the interactions between atmosphere and land surface in an attempt to understand urban environmental issues. Christopher Davis, the director of NCAR’s Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, won the 2019 Joanne Simpson Mentorship Award for his “patient, careful, and supportive mentoring of students” throughout his career. Hugh Morrison, an NCAR senior scientist and an expert in cloud microphysics and dynamics, will receive the Editor’s Award for the Journal of Atmospheric Science “for numerous and insightful reviews in the areas of clouds and convection.” Stan Trier, an NCAR project scientist, won the Editor’s Award for the journal Monthly Weather Review “for providing thorough, constructive, and timely reviews of numerous manuscripts.” There are also fellowship winners. NCAR scientist and hydrometeorologist David Gochis was named an AMS Fellow for his outstanding contribution to atmospheric and hydrologic sciences through his career. Gochis is currently the NCAR principal investigator on the WRF-Hydro Modeling System, an open-source community model that predicts streamflow and surface hydrology variables across the continental United States operating as the NOAA National Water Model. Sue Ellen Haupt, deputy director of NCAR’s Research Applications Laboratory and an expert in artificial intelligence and boundary layer meteorology, was named an AMS Fellow for her significant scientific contributions and leadership in the field. Rebecca Morss, deputy director of NCAR’s Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, was also named a new AMS Fellow. Morss is a senior scientist who studies the predictability of weather-related hazards and communication of weather and climate risks.
The National Wildlife Federation named Centerra the state’s first Community Wildlife Habitat. Centerra is the 3,000-acre master-planned community located in Loveland. Within it is the High Plains Environmental Center, which applied for the designation.
Connecting Point in Greeley ranks No. 215 among the world’s 501 most strategic and innovative managed service providers, according to Channel Futures 11th annual MSP 501 Worldwide Company Rankings. The MSP 501 is the first, largest and most comprehensive ranking of managed service providers worldwide.
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
AlsoEnergy, a Boulder renewable energy software company, is merging with New Jersey-based solar monitoring firm Locus Energy. Under terms of the agreement, AlsoEnergy will continue to lead the business, with Locus Energy’s prior owner, Genscape, retaining a minority equity stake in the combined entity, according to an AlsoEnergy news release. The agreement includes the integration of Locus Energy’s customer service and engineering support center. Financial details of the merger were not disclosed.
Two Boulder athletic companies, Boulder Cycle Sport and Boulder Nordic Sport, are merging and will operate as individual companies, under the new parent company Boulder Sport LLC.
Inscripta Inc., a gene-editing technology company based in Boulder, purchased Solana Biosciences Inc., a life-sciences company founded by veterans of Illumina Inc. (Nasdaq: ILMN). Inscripta and Solana have joined forces to accelerate the commercialization of Inscripta’s suite of gene-editing technology tools.
Advanced Energy Industries Inc. (Nasdaq: AEIS), a provider of power and control technologies, purchased LumaSense Technologies Holdings Inc., based in Santa Clara, Calif. The transaction closed Sept. 1.
Akonia Holographics LLC, a Longmont startup that produces lenses for augmented-reality glasses, has a new owner. Apple Inc. confirmed that it has acquired the company, which Apple could use to assist in developing a wearable device for superimposing images and other digital data on the real world. Terms of the deal, including when it occurred, have not been released.
Midrange Performance Group, a Boulder-based company that helps organizations optimize their IT performance, was acquired by Minneapolis-based HelpSystems.
MOVES
Nite Ize Inc., a Boulder manufacturing company that began in 1989 with a headband-mounted flashlight and is now producing about 500 products, purchased a 160,000-square-foot property in Longmont, where it will centralize its production and distribution. The buyer was ITE Holdings LLC, a company bearing the same address as Nite Ize, at 5660 Central Ave. The transaction closed in March with operations moving into the new facility now. The purchase price was $18,775,000, according to public records. The new facility is located in the Boulder Tech Center at 6303 W. Dry Creek Parkway in Longmont. Nite Ize facilities at Longbow Drive and Spine Road will be consolidated into the Longmont location. The company’s headquarters remains at 5660 Central Ave. in Boulder.
The Cigarette Store Corp., a family-owned company that owns brands such as Smoker Friendly and Gasamat, is relocating one of its businesses due to changes in Colorado’s tax law. Payless Cigars & Pipes is being moved to New Port Richey, Fla., near Tampa.
Colorado Teardrop Trailers LLC, a Boulder-manufacturer of teardrop-style recreational trailers, will expand in a nearby location. The company will move from 2200 Central Ave. into 7,938 square feet at 1750 55th St. Two spaces, consisting of 7,138 square feet, will be available for lease at the 55th St. location.
PopSockets LLC, a designer and manufacturer of mobile-phone accessories, leased 46,000-square-feet of space in Flatiron Park in Boulder. PopSockets will move from 25,000 square feet at 3033 Sterling Circle in Boulder to 5757 Central Ave. in late 2018 or early 2019.
NAME CHANGES
Boulder Beer on Walnut is changing its concept to Squared Pizza + Beer. The Pearl Street mainstay will now be a Detroit-style restaurant. The location is changing its name and menu, but it won’t be changing ownership. The founder of the original Old Chicago, Frank Day, remains the owner of Boulder Beer Co. and is staying on with the restaurant. Squared Pizza + Beer was slated to open on Sept. 10. Boulder Beer’s main location at 2880 Wilderness Place will not be affected by the changes.
OPENING
Banner Health, which operates three Northern Colorado hospitals, is opening a new urgent-care clinic in Greeley that will replace the city’s existing clinic at 70th Avenue and 20th Street. The new 8,000-square-foot facility will be located at 2015 30th Ave., near the intersection of 35th Avenue and 20th Street. It was expected to open Oct. 3.
Love’s Travel Stop, at Colorado Highway 56 and Interstate 25, opened for business. The long-awaited truck stop was supposed to open more than two years ago. It includes Subway and Taco John’s restaurants in addition to the fuel and tire services of the truck stop.
All Sales Vinyl, selling new and used vinyl records, compact discs, novelties, ukuleles and more, opened Sept. 1 at 120 S. College Ave. in Fort Collins, long the location of Bisetti’s Italian restaurant, which closed in January.
Rita’s Italian Ice opened in the Harmony Marketplace development at 250 E. Harmony Road. Fort Collins. The Pennsylvania-based franchise is known for its flavored Italian ice varieties that are mostly made with real fruits; mango, cherry and Swedish Fish are the most popular flavors.
Family Village, a cooperative coworking and community space, opened at Fourth Avenue and Terry Street in Longmont. The space sets itself apart by providing child care to members.
Airgas Inc. opened a retail facility in Dacono and closed its Boulder location. Airgas, an Air Liquide company, supplies industrial, medical and specialty gases, as well as hardgoods and related products. It is also a supplier of safety products, ammonia products and process chemicals. The new retail outlet at 4016 Joe Collier Drive in Dacono encompasses 10,000 square feet. Six staff members work at the location.
Waypoint Bank converted its loan production office, which was located in Loveland, into a full branch operation in Fort Collins at 2900 S. College Ave., Suite 1B. Waypoint Bank is unrelated to Waypoint Real Estate, the commercial real estate firm also located in Fort Collins.
Coworking space desk chair held a grand opening at 201 E. Fourth St. in downtown Loveland.
Altvia Solutions LLC, a leading technology provider for private equity, is opening a London office. Altvia, based in Broomfield, translates data into business intelligence for investors.
A wine bar, Lirano, opened at 3600 Mitchell Drive in Fort Collins. It will eventually serve more than 1,000 wines from around the world.
A new coworking space in downtown Greeley, Eight-0-Eight, is a concept from Tim McCarthy, who initially started the project when he was looking for a new office for his company. Since opening at the beginning of August, there are several small businesses already using the space, located at 808 Ninth St. There is a total of about 13 desks so far, with eight spoken for.
Cybersecurity firm Carbon Black Inc. (Nasdaq: CBLK) opened an office at 1433 Pearl St. in Boulder and relocated some employees from its Boston headquarters to the new location.
More than two years after fire gutted the inside, the Country Inn reopened at 1415 Eighth Ave. in Greeley. The inn is known for its comfort foods such as cheeseburgers and hash browns.
Elevations Credit Union opened a mortgage loan office in Broomfield and moved the company headquarters to the credit union’s Diagonal branch at 2960 Diagonal Highway in Boulder. The mortgage office is on the first floor at 1 Environmental Way in Broomfield.
The city of Greeley opened the new City Center South city hall Sept. 4 at 1001 11th Ave. City Center South, in addition to the city council chambers, houses the municipal court, information technology, water and sewer offices, GTV8, and central records. Most of those services have been operating out of temporary facilities over the past 18 months.
Belén Diez and Rolando Marroquin opened The Yard at 3520, a food-truck park in Evans, in mid-September. The site was formerly occupied by The New Plantation cajun restaurant at 3520 S. 11th Ave. That restaurant owned by Jeff and Jerry Oyler, closed after 31 years in business.
Altar’d State, a women’s fashion brand, opened its first Boulder location at 1650 28th St. in the Twenty Ninth Street mall. Altar’d State has more than 100 boutiques throughout the United States, including Denver and Lone Tree. The Maryville, Tenn.-based retailer started as a Christian retail shop in Knoxville in 2009 but has expanded into a full-fledged boutique focused on fashion and giving back to nonprofit organizations.
Boardgames, Beer and Bites, known as B Cubed, will open in November at 2027 Broadway in Boulder, offering beverages, food and games. Patrons will be able to play as many of the more than 600 games available that they want, for a $5 cover charge. Servers will double as game consultants to teach the rules of a game. Along with craft beer, B Cubed will also serve non-alcoholic drinks to provide a family-friendly environment. The space will seat about 80 people.
Lola Diner, a restaurant that describes itself as a “modern neighborhood diner” opened at 6020 Stallion Drive in Loveland in late August. It is the second location for Lola Diner, the first being in Houston. The restaurant will serve comfort food for breakfast, lunch or dinner. The parent company is Rock N Concepts LLC.
Sunflower Bank opened a commercial loan production office at 520 Zang St. in Broomfield.
PRODUCT UPDATE
Evo Hemp, the Boulder-based company known for its line of hemp bars that are sold in more than 3,000 retailers, including Whole Foods Markets, Kroger, Wegmans and Earth Fare, has a new line of CBD extracts and soft gel capsules made with organic hemp grown by Native American hemp activist Alex White Plume on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota. The HempX Extract and HempX Capsules are available in retailers and online.
Lightning Systems, a global developer of zero-emissions drivetrains for commercial vehicles, announced new products for Ford vehicles. The company developed new battery-electric powertrain options for the Ford E-450 Shuttle Bus and Ford E-450 Cutaway. The new models for the E-450s will have an all-electric range of 110 miles. They will begin delivery of the new products by the end of this year. The vehicles will be able to get a full charge in two hours.
Water Pik, Inc., the Fort Collins-based maker of oral hygiene devices, is recalling its Sonic-Fusion flossing toothbrush because the charging base may overheat and cause melting and sparking. Fire, shock or burns are possible, the company said. Water Pik has received consumer reports of product malfunctioning in the U.S. The recall is applicable only to 3,800 units of Sonic-Fusion products. All other Waterpik brand flossers and toothbrushes are not affected.
The following models have been recalled: Sonic-Fusion, Model SF-01, serial numbers SF01 17 06 01 through SF01 18 06 28. Sonic Fusion, Model SF-02, serial numbers SF02 17 06 01 through SF02 18 06 28. Water Pik said the affected units were distributed between June 2017 and June 2018 in all U.S. states and Canada and limited to professional educators, key opinion leaders, trade show customers and limited direct online sales. Consumers who have the affected units should stop using them, immediately unplug the unit, and return them to Water Pik. To receive a product return kit, or for additional information, consumers should call 1-800-674-7718 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday or email at SonicFusion-Return@Waterpik.com. Consumers can also go to SFReturn.com for information.
Inscripta Inc., a Boulder-based gene-editing technology company, has secured its first patent. he patent covers systems using MAD7, the company’s first free CRISPR enzyme, as well as patent coverage for systems using another MADzyme, MAD2.
A Boulder tech startup is looking to bring a new level of safety and education to traveling the world. GeoSure Global is an app that scores locations based on their safety record across several categories: women’s safety, physical health, theft, political freedoms, health and medical, and an overall safety score. The lower the score, the overall safer a location is.
A Boulder PR firm is launching a new practice for a form of company communication it believes could be the future of marketing. Catapult PR has launched its Narrative Practice, a strategic marketing strategy that helps clients position themselves as leaders of an industry category.
New Herb Health, a Longmont-based natural products company, unveiled a line of whole hemp extracts for humans and animals at the Summer Fancy Food Show June 30-July 2 in New York. The company’s new line, Meta Hemp Solutions, uses a spagyric technique; it’s made using alchemical procedures such as fermentation, distillation or extraction. Meta Hemp Solutions are made using organic grape oil, pure water and extraction using a low-temperature point to preserve the living components of the raw hemp plant. The products are offered in potencies of 125, 250, 500, 1,000 and 3,000 milligrams of full-profile cannabinoids in coconut-vanilla, fruit punch and unflavored. It’s also offered in animal potencies of 125 and 250 milligrams in tuna, chicken, beef tallow and unflavored varieties.
Sphero Inc., the Boulder-based company that builds robots such as the BB-8 droid used in Star Wars movies, has launched a new robotic ball it is calling BOLT. The device is intended as an educational tool and comes equipped with the Sphero Edu application. It will help users dig deeper into science and technology, according to information supplied by the company. Sphero said BOLT is suitable for all ages and knowledge levels. It sells for $149.99.
Canarchy Craft Brewery Collective announced its first mixed pack of beer, full of options from different member breweries in the collective. The Canarchy Mixed Pack Vol. 1 includes 12-ounce options from breweries in Florida, Michigan, Utah and Colorado. The mix includes: Cigar City Brewing’s Jai Alai IPA, Oskar Blues Brewery’s Dale’s Pale Ale, Perrin Brewing’s Black Ale and Squatters Craft Beers’ Hop Rising. The box first hit North Carolina and Florida markets on Sept. 1. The Canarchy Collective started in 2015 as a collective of breweries looking to disrupt the beer industry. Longmont-based Oskar Blues is one of its major members.
Organic India, a maker of supplements, will launch the world’s first fair trade-certified supplements during the upcoming Expo East trade show. The herbal supplements include Tulsi (also known as Holy Basil), Cinnamon, Ginger and Trikatu.
SERVICES
Boulder Community Health officially launched Foothills Community Midwives, a new clinic that guarantees patients a midwife-attended birth in a hospital setting. Its office locations are in the Foothills Medical Building, 4745 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, and Buffalo Ridge Medical Center, 16677 Lowell Blvd., Broomfield.
Food from three dozen Fort Collins restaurants is available for delivery from Grubhub. The service replaces an online ordering system with drivers employed by Grubhub.
BRIEFS
While supplies last, Fort Collins Utilities is offering free high-efficiency toilets to qualified commercial water customers. Under the program, customers pay only for the installation. Toilets must be installed at a Fort Collins Utilities commercial water service address by an approved contractor. For more information and additional eligibility requirements, call 970-416-4371, email aneel@fcgov.com, or visit fcgov.com/free-efficient-toilets.
Moody’s Investor’s Service upgraded the town of Erie’s general-obligation bond rating. The bonds issued by the general fund were assigned a new rating of “Aa1”, reflecting an upgrade in credit quality from the previous rating of “Aa2”, Moody’s second-highest rating.
Woodward…