CU, Boulder leaders join college town officials for recovery roundtable

BOULDER — Boulder prides itself on being unique, but the home to the University of Colorado has a lot in common with similarly situated college towns across the country when it comes to bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Boulder Chamber leaders joined city officials and University of Colorado economics experts Tuesday for a roundtable discussion on the recovery with counterparts from Ann Arbor, Michigan; Ithaca, New York; and State College, Pennsylvania.

In some ways, college towns such as Boulder had certain advantages during the pandemic, said Richard Wobbekind, executive director of CU’s Leeds Business Research Division and a senior economist at…