Editorial: Boulder’s startup economy should not be taken for granted
Boulder has gotten used to topping rankings of startup communities, innovation economies and places to live.
And the Boulder metropolitan statistical area — comprising Boulder County — recently ranked No. 1 nationwide in a ranking by financial-news website 24/7 Wall Street of the nation’s best-educated communities.
But, as writer Curt MacDougall noted in a recent article prepared by BizWest for the Boulder Daily Camera, Boulder has dropped in other rankings, or even fallen off altogether.
The reason? High real estate prices, for one.
The median sales price for a single-family home in the city of Boulder is approaching $1.6 million, among the highest in…
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