ARCHIVED  August 24, 2001

Brighton’s small-town style thrives

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But closer ties to Denver worry some

Terry Lucero thinks nothing of letting his 14-year-old daughter walk 15 blocks to Subway to get a sandwich. He lives, after all, not in Denver, Fort Collins or even Greeley, but in Brighton.

“We don’t have a large amount of crime,” Lucero said. “Public safety is way at the top of our priorities.”

He ought to know: Lucero is Brighton’s mayor.

Brighton, for years settled in at a population of about 14,000, is experiencing the same type of growth happening up and down the Front Range.

“Six years ago it heated up,” Lucero said of growth. The small…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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