Economy & Economic Development  September 30, 2024

Mead: growth in all directions

Leanin' Tree in Mead
Greeting-card publisher Leanin’ Tree is moving its corporate headquarters into a 109,676-square-foot building in the Elevation25 Business Park in Mead, seen here in an artist’s rendering. Courtesy The Colorado Group Inc.
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For a couple of decades, Mead’s claim to fame was a church on the outskirts of town that was used briefly in the filming of the Bruce Willis film “Die Hard 2.”

This agricultural community northeast of Longmont offered a quieter world in which townspeople all knew each other and probably didn’t even lock their doors at night.

Today, Mead still serves as a quiet respite from bigger nearby cities, but residential subdivisions and industrial sites straddling Interstate 25 are steadily replacing farmland.

“Growth is going in all directions, but I’d say most of the growth is to the south and east. We’re…

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Sharon Dunn is an award-winning journalist covering business, banking, real estate, energy, local government and crime in Northern Colorado since 1994. She began her journalism career in Alaska after graduating Metropolitan State College in Denver in 1992. She found her way back to Colorado, where she worked at the Greeley Tribune for 25 years. She has a master's degree in communications management from the University of Denver. She is married and has one grown daughter — and a beloved English pointer at her side while she writes. When not writing, you may find her enjoying embroidery and crochet projects, watching football, or kayaking and birdwatching on a high-mountain lake.
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