“An influx of entrepreneurs ... has changed the face of this Colorado city of 98,000, making it a destination for Internet startups,” author Vivek Wadhwa writes of Boulder in the online package. “With the University of Colorado as an anchor and a backyard full of mountains as lifestyle bait, Boulder now has the highest concentration of software engineers per capita in the nation.”
Boulder takes the top spot out of 10 U.S. cities singled out by Bloomberg Businessweek as the best places for startups.
It said smaller cities and towns generally are the best places today to start new tech companies.
Wadhwa quotes author and urban development expert Richard Florida as saying that Boulder has the nation’s greatest concentration of the “creative class” — scientists, artists, engineers and related fields.
The article also notes the presence of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
“In the 1970s, Celestial Seasonings and StorageTek helped foster a robust natural foods industry and a thriving tech community” in Boulder, Wadhwa writes. “Over the years, software, data services, and biotech blossomed as employees of those companies branched out to pursue other interests. The combination of entrepreneurship, engineering talent, and a counterculture vibe gave rise to many pre-bubble Net startups.”
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Denver Real Estate News
There were 6,616 homes under contract last month, a 27.6 percent increase over April 2009. April’s total marks the third best of any month.
The increase in contracts is mostly due to the April 30 deadline to put a
house under contract in order to take advantage of an $8,000 federal tax credit
for first-time buyers or a $6,500 tax credit for move-up buyers.
Meanwhile, there were 4,188 residential sales closed in April, up 16.3
percent from 3,602 closings in March and 23.5 percent from 3,390 in April 2009.
The median price for a single-family home rose 9.5 percent to $230,000 in April, compared with the same month a year ago.
Median condominium prices rose 7.5 percent, from $130,000 to $139,700,
during the same period.
The question, experts say, is whether the rapid sales pace is sustainable.
For a second month and for just the second time in three years home prices in the Denver area showed a year-over-year increase in December in the latest S&P/Case-Shiller Home Prices Index. Out of 20 U.S. cities in the closely watched report form Standard & Poor's, released February 23rd, Denver was one of just six that showed a year-over-year increase in prices.
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Case-Shiller Index
20 Towns of the Future
Launched by Mayor John Hickenlooper, the innovative Greenprint Denver plan is a vision for the city. And it’s no lightweight public-relations effort: Denver plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 10% across the community by 2012 and by 25% overall by 2020.
One day, residents may be able to take a zero-emissions bus to commuter rail and light rail (122 miles of new tracks are planned), then hop on a bike from Denver B-cycle, a citywide bike-sharing program, and arrive at an office building certified by Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).
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