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…