Steady growth foreseen for region’s retail sector

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Steady growth foreseen for region˜s retail sector

Maggie Boys

Business Report Staff Writer
Retailers and sales-tax experts agree that they˜ see steady, continued growth in 1998, despite widely varying retail growth rates in 1997.
Along the northern Front Range, retail growth varied from slow (1 percent to 2 percent in Cheyenne and Laramie) to fast (about 13 percent in Longmont).
While wholesale and retail trade added 2,000 jobs in the Fort Collins-Loveland area between 1994 and 1996, this trend took a check in 1997. Sherry Temple, financial administrator for the city, said there was no increase in retail establishments in…