Real Estate & Construction  November 18, 2022

RE Conference: Panel cites Marshall Fire’s challenges, ‘deferred dreams’

BOULDER – Boulder County is still reeling from the impacts of the Marshall Fire and will be for years to come, panelists at BizWest’s Boulder Valley Real Estate Conference agreed Thursday.

Propelled by hurricane-force winds that followed an unseasonably dry and warm spell, the Dec. 30, 2021 fire, the most destructive in Colorado history in terms of property lost, claimed two lives and an estimated 1,084 structures, including houses, a hotel and at least one shopping center in Louisville, Superior and surrounding unincorporated areas of Boulder County.

“It just wasn’t going to be stopped,” said Kristin Taylor, operations manager for Blue Spruce…

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With BizWest since 2012 and in Colorado since 1979, Dallas worked at the Longmont Times-Call, Colorado Springs Gazette, Denver Post and Public News Service. A Missouri native and Mizzou School of Journalism grad, Dallas started as a sports writer and outdoor columnist at the St. Charles (Mo.) Banner-News, then went to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before fleeing the heat and humidity for the Rockies. He especially loves covering our mountain communities.
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