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NEWS $ 1 Loan pipeline ﬂows Dec. 17-23, 2010 enough to not freeze Demand improved, Vol. 16, No. 6 bankers see positive www.ncbr.com ﬁrst quarter ahead Page 2 Airpark Village faces foreclosure

plans to turn the old Fort Collins Goff isn’t ready to throw in the Insurance Deposit Corp. to Goff must refi Downtown Airport into a 150- towel just yet though. strengthen its financials stem- DuckDuck Deal puts acre mixed-use community “We’re trying to get it refi- ming from its loan concentration new spin on ads $5.45 million anchored by a high-tech research nanced,” he said. “The bank is in commercial real estate at a time Smartphone app helps loan by March park, his Airpark Village property under FDIC watch and pushing when commercial real estate val- businesses advertise may be headed for foreclosure. us out the door because the FDIC ues were rapidly declining. specials in real time Lender Mile High Banks has wants them to sell 20 percent of Mile High Banks Chairman and By Jessica Centers Page 3 filed a Notice of Election and their loans. We can’t get a loan CEO Dan Allen, however, said the [email protected] Demand with $5.449 million of from a bank, so we’re looking at NED filing on the Airpark Village the original $5.45 million loan private money.” loan had nothing to do with the FORT COLLINS — More still owed. Longmont-based Mile High bank’s agreement with the FDIC. than six years after Denver devel- Although there has yet to be Banks in February signed an He said he could not comment on oper Lloyd Goff first announced any redevelopment at the site, agreement with the Federal See AIRPARK, 27

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SPECIAL REPORT Manufacturing Eldon James biomed arm kicks tube maker into world marketplace Page17 EVERYTHING GOES — More than 300 acres of commercial, residential and agricultural land in and near Wellington went on the auction block Dec. 9, including Main Street Market, the town’s only grocery store. The building containing the store and other commercial spaces — along with more than four acres of land — sold as LISTS a parcel to an undisclosed buyer for $1.65 million. The entire property, which was auctioned in four parcels, was Region’s largest: being liquidated by its owner, Parker developer Delmer Zweygardt. Steve Porter, Northern Colorado Business Report

Manufacturers opment in Wellington for about a Page 16 Property sale nets $6.2 million for owner Zweygardt decade. By Steve Porter about 300 acres of land and ested onlookers. The auction, conducted by North Weld [email protected] Wellington’s only grocery store When it was over, $6.2 million Tulsa-based Williams and changed hands at an auction had been raised for Parker devel- Williams Worldwide Real Estate employers WELLINGTON — In 90 attended by about 75 investors, oper Delmer Zweygardt, who has Auction, included the sale for Page 19 wind-swept minutes on Dec. 9, would-be developers and inter- been involved in property devel- See WELLINGTON, 23

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That’s similar to the story at U.S. At New West Bank, the reduced fees Demand improved, Bank where nary a loan for “from-the- for 504 loans increased demand. “We dirt-up projects” is to be seen, according “We’ve seen a generated approximately 10 new SBA bankers see positive to Regional President Steve Lovas. Still, loans in 2010,” said Leroy Leavitt, chair- he expects that loans for 2011 will be doubling of man and CEO. “These are great because first quarter ahead “maybe a little up from 2010.” all you need is 10 percent down.” Byron Bateman, president of Cache commercial and Under the 504 loan program, 50 per- By Michelle LeJeune Bank and Trust in Greeley, said while he cent of the loan is provided by the bank, [email protected] thinks the county is on Year 4 of a 20- real estate loans.” 40 percent by the CDC with an SBA year recession cycle, he’s seeing “a little guarantee, and 10 percent is provided by There’s steady flow through glimmer of the positive,” and, like some borrowers. Northern Colorado’s loan pipeline, of the other local bankers, he’s budgeting Patrick Brady, President Leavitt is optimistic about the bankers say, cautiously predicting it will for a 5 percent increase in 2011. upcoming year. “We’re liquid and rock stay that way at least through the first “In the last 90 days we’ve probably FirstBank solid and can make loans easily in our quarter of 2011. Small Business seen more loan requests than in the pre- marketplace.” Administration loans are picking up vious 24-month period,” he said. New West Bank is healthy and well and the default rate is down. Demand has picked up in loans for positioned, he added, with its past due At year’s end, FirstBank of Northern owner-occupied real estate, commercial loans at 1.64 percent compared to the Colorado is still on track to beat its 2009 business, and acquisition at Cache Bank Recent changes to the 504 Certified bank’s peer group at 5.18 percent. record-breaking loan volume of $125 and Trust. Recently the bank processed Development Company loan program, Leavitt anticipates 5 percent growth million. three loans that totaled a little over $2 which reduced fees and allowed refi- in the coming year, “an aggressive “We’ve seen a doubling of commer- million, he said. It’s not the good old nancing for small businesses interested growth projection” considering the cial and real estate loans,” FirstBank days of 2008, when Cache Bank saw $125 in expanding and purchasing buildings bank’s relative youth — just 8 years old President Patrick Brady said, adding that million in loans outstanding — now it’s or equipment, have made the SBA loan — and the recession, he said. the mix is about 30 percent commercial $85 million — but it’s getting better, program more popular at the close of At First FarmBank President Dan loans and 70 percent refinance, con- Bateman said. 2010. Allen predicts another positive year like struction, rental property and primary “We’re seeing significant loan 2010 where ag was “a big part of our suc- residence. SBA factor demand, probably over $25 million cur- cess. The ag economy continues to be “Loan demand has improved some While SBA loans aren’t a factor in rently in our pipeline and probably dou- much stronger than real estate and com- since July,” said Mark Driscoll, president Cache Bank’s upswing, they are at New ble that for SBA loans,” Nalezny said. mercial markets. I expect it to stay of First National Bank. West Bank in Greeley and the commerce He expects 10 percent to 11 percent strong.” Will First National Bank close more banks — Fort Collins Commerce Bank, growth rate for the commerce banks in First National Bank’s Driscoll looks loans in 2009 than 2010? “I think, yes,” Larimer Bank of Commerce and the upcoming year. “Our pipeline has a toward a positive first quarter for 2011. he said. “We are more interested in Loveland Bank of Commerce. Chairman little bit of everything. I’m cautiously “We believe it will improve over the first smaller loans. There is little activity in Gerard Nalezny said that the SBA’s optimistic,” he said. “Under the surface part of the year. Not back to historic lev- the larger real estate projects. I don’t enhanced loan program has made a dif- there may be a flat economy for 2011, els, but if we can manage our pipeline think the big loans are out there.” ference. but there are also real success stories.” and stay even, that’s good,” he said.

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EYE planning director. “It’ll 25,”he said.“There’s still a lot of issues with But critics say plan set the stage for capital the details.” improvements and for Plan Fort Collins ties together virtually Naughty social long on generalities, funding those projects.” all of the city’s major planning documents But critics of the plan over the last 15 years into one. Frank said media at nice short on specifics say it is long on generali- the plan emphasizes sustainability with a ties and short on “triple bottom line” that addresses eco- social events By Steve Porter specifics. nomic, environmental and human factors [email protected] “Our initial reaction when city officials make decisions. If your company is is it’s a planner’s utopia FRANK The plan focuses on seven areas: eco- throwing a holiday party FORT COLLINS — Fort Collins is but very thin on economic health; environmental resources; this season: wrapping up a year-long, $850,000 update nomic reality,”said David May, president of community and neighborhood livability; of its City Plan and Transportation Master the Fort Collins Area Chamber of safety and wellness; culture, parks and You better watch out for Plan and combining the two into Plan Fort Commerce. recreation; transportation; and maintain- the slippery dance floor, Collins, a vision of the city’s future. Jeff Schneider, owner of Armstead ing a high-performing community. You better not cry City officials say the 226-page plan is Construction, said the plan is too ambi- It also calls for continuous improvement obscenities during the boss’ needed to guide Fort Collins to its next level tious in saying it will guide the city over the through constant monitoring, evaluation toast, as the city grows and times change. next two and a half decades. and adjustment over time. You better not drunkenly “It’s essentially the vision of the city for “I wish I knew what was going to hap- “It’s been a real exciting process,” Frank pen in the next five years, let alone the next pass out ... period, the next 25 years,” said Joe Frank, advance See PLAN FC, 20 I’m telling you why…

Because everyone has a FOCUS smartphone these days and anything you do will be recorded and probably replayed at next year’s holiday party — if you’re still DuckDuck Deal puts new spin on ads with the company. Workforce.com posted recommendations on its Ethical Workforce blog to keep your career intact when celebrations collide with social media. Among the suggestions: I Don’t bring your phone to the party so you won’t be tempted to take pictures — or post updates on Facebook. I Have a friend hold your phone if you must keep in contact with the babysitter but lack the willpower to stay off the keyboard. I If you must hold your phone, don’t point the cam- era at anything. I “Having a lovely time” should be the only message you text while at the party. I Don’t “friend” the boss’ significant other no matter how much you think he or she was flirting with you. Ever. Now, unlike Santa who can circumnavigate the Smartphone app helps Aaron Kahn, Northern Colorado Business Report globe in a blink, the rest of DUCK IN HERE — Chris Vincent, co-founder of Boulder-based DuckDuck Deal, shows off the window decal that us can only attend so many alerts smartphone users who have downloaded the free app that they may ﬁnd a ducky deal inside. festivities per night. So, businesses advertise please feel free to ignore becoming increasingly attracted to the merchants and their customers. Workforce.com’s tips, specials in real time cheap and effective direct-to-consumer “We offer a digital platform for the because The Eye wants to advertising that the app provides. small business to access a mobile market- By Aaron Kahn see everything they missed The Walrus Saloon in Boulder started place,” Vincent said. “We come to business on YouTube the next day. [email protected] using DuckDuck shortly before the app owners with a turnkey system and user Happy holidays. launched in April. Saloon manager Petey base ready to run whatever they want.” BOULDER — Everyone knows there’s Helm praises DuckDuck for its visibility, To develop a sense of how local busi- no such thing as a free lunch. But what versatility, and ease. nesses conducted their marketing, Vincent about one that’s deeply discounted only “DuckDuck has given us the opportu- went from door to door in Boulder, talking for certain people in a certain area? About nity to get involved with a marketing with owners. Meeting with about 30 mer- INSIDE 180 businesses throughout Boulder and stream that we would not have had the chants, Vincent said he was able develop Briefcase ...... 14 Fort Collins are trying the concept out ability to get into otherwise,” Helm said. an understanding of their digital market- Calendar ...... 10 with DuckDuck Deal. “It allows us to be seen by potential cus- ing and advertising needs. Classiﬁeds ...... 26 This smartphone app, available for tomers that are a part of the mobile app “I was able to get a sense of their abili- Commentary ...... 24 iPhone and Android operating systems, world.” ty, or inability, to actually reach their tar- Health ...... 6 uses the phone’s GPS capabilities to find The Boulder-based company was creat- get demographic,” Vincent said. “Then I OnTheJob ...... 13 time-sensitive dining deals at nearby eater- ed by Chris Vincent and Andrea Pawliczek, asked them about the product that we had Technology ...... 8 ies. who met while earning MBAs at Duke in mind, so a lot of the app was actually While the app is growing in popularity University. The foundation of the app’s born from the merchants telling us what among bargain hunters, businesses are business model is a mutual benefit for See DUCKDUCK, 26 4 | Northern Colorado Business Report www.ncbr.com | Dec. 17-23, 2010 Annual Economic Forecast more important than ever

GREELEY – What’s in store for the Northern Colorado economy in 2011? That will be the topic of the day when one of the Northern Colorado 2011 Business Report’s most popular annual events takes place Jan. 6. This year’s Economic Forecast luncheon will be held in the University Center Ballroom on the Northern Colorado economy for NCBR University of Northern Colorado cam- and presenting his economic forecasts pus in Greeley. since 1997. He also serves as an econom- “This is probably the most critical ic consultant for federal, state and local year of the past 13 that we’ve been pre- governments, associations and private senting the Forecast for local business companies. leaders to come and hear what our Together, they will present both the experts have to say,” said Jeff Nuttall, national and regional view of economic publisher of NCBR. “Are we in a sustain- conditions in the coming year. In addi- able recovery? What are the implications tion to their presentations, they will for small business of the many year-end open up a dialog not only with each federal and state tax changes? And what other but also with the audience at the will Northern Colorado as a region be event. Some of the topics of discussion facing as 2011 will be directed by questions submitted unfolds?” in advance to [email protected]. The featured The NCBR staff will be collecting speakers will be Mark questions through the end of the day C. Snead, assistant Jan. 5, so if debate in the lame-duck ses- vice president, econo- sion of Congress gets you confused mist and branch exec- between now and then, shoot us an e- utive of the Federal mail and we will pass it on to our Reserve Bank of experts. If the question can be answered, Kansas City’s Denver SNEAD they’ll be willing to tackle it. branch, and John W. The Economic Forecast luncheon Green, Northern starts at 11 a.m. and concludes at 1:30 Colorado regional p.m. Cost to attend is $39; online reser- economist and con- vations are now open at www.ncbr.com, sultant. under the Events heading on the left- Snead serves as the hand side of the homepage. lead officer for Sponsors for the Economic Forecast Colorado, Wyoming luncheon are Kennedy and Coe and the and northern New Orthopaedic and Spine Center of the Mexico, and his spe- Rockies. GREEN cial area of expertise is More information and corporate economic modeling and forecasting. He table reservations are also available by also presented at NCBR’s Mid-Year contacting NCBR Marketing Director Economic Update in July. De Dahlgren at [email protected] or Green has been tracking the 970-232-3132.

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environment. The roadmap noted a lack Home, commercial “No matter what of coordination among various departments and programs, and it offered a requirements could vision for near- and long-term goals to statistic you look at, build a more cohesive green-building be updated by April plan. there is an increased In early 2010, the city utilities By Joshua Zaffos staff convened a green- [email protected] cost to building building program advisory committee FORT COLLINS — If you build it, green.” plus technical you will recycle your construction waste. review advisory That is the gist of a new green-build- committees on ing regulation, among several dozen, James Mitchell, broker both residential and that the city of Fort Collins could soon Fort Collins Board of Realtors commercial building to put into practice. The city council is con- help shape the recom- sidering green-building amendments to Sustainability Committee mendations now before its existing building codes, and could the council. The process authorize the new and updated rules by has drawn on the input next spring. according to Phelan, rather than a far- and expertise of City council made the development reaching and abrupt makeover of build- builders, real estate of a comprehensive green-building pro- ing codes and permitting systems. agents, environmental advo- gram to regulate and guide construction, Instead of creating a separate green- cates, and many others, including Business Report ﬁle photo renovation and other practices a priority building program, Phelan said the representatives from several city depart- in 2009. John Phelan, energy services amendments are about “greening the ments and citizen boards. One manager for Fort Collins Utilities, said building code.” The focus on incremen- The amendments take some direction significant rule the proposed amendments would align tal progress should allow for future leaps from recently updated national and would require residential and commer- with and build on other city-planning and bounds in sustainability, without international green-building codes and cial builders to submit a recycling plan to initiatives for energy use, climate action scaring off present support from standards, Phelan said, but the recom- account for and help reduce construc- and reduced carbon emissions, and builders, real-estate brokers, and, most mendations reflect a custom-built set of tion waste from development sites. water conservation. (See related story, importantly, the city council. rules for Fort Collins. Several other recommendations target Plan Fort Collins, on Page 1.) For both residential and commercial efficiency standards for the “building “Our goal is to move some of the Three years in the making building, the proposals focus on new envelope,” including the roof, windows, green-building practices into the main- City leaders began looking at green- construction, and do not implement walls and foundation, which can influ- stream, and we’ve tried to pick things building practices in 2007 with the mandatory improvements for existing ence interior climate and energy use. that make sense,” Phelan said. release of a “roadmap” report detailing structures. By coincidence, the commit- The residential recommendations also The proposed green-building rules existing rules and incentives that tie into tees came up with 14 prescribed amend- require performance testing of furnaces, are “first steps” for the city to take, sustainability measures for the built ments to both building codes. See GREEN BUILDING, 25 6 | Northern Colorado Business Report www.ncbr.com | Dec. 17-23, 2010 Partnership to help those living with AIDS

Doug Whitman, physician at Salud including testing, case management, have helped many survive the disease New treatment clinic in Fort Collins, said the partner- counseling, a food bank and housing and led to a growing public perception ship is another expression of Salud’s and other assistance. that AIDS has been cured. But that’s offers care to low- mission to provide the best care possi- definitely not the case, Basinger said, ble to those who Extending lives noting there are 1.3 million people — income patients would not other- Basinger said the Northern Colorado both gay and heterosexual — living wise be able to clinic partnership, which took more with the disease in the United States A partnership between the obtain it. than a year to create, will help get low- and an estimated 56,000 new cases each Northern Colorado AIDS Project, “Community income AIDS patients to treatment and year. Salud Family Health Centers and health centers are extend their lives. “The distance (to A total of 202 people in Larimer Rocky Mountain CARES is providing built to provide Denver or Boulder) is a real barrier for County and 142 people in Weld County HIV/AIDS treatment to low-income health-care access people,” he said. “There are no HIV are living with HIV or AIDS, according patients in the region whose lives to those who docs up here who provide this kind of to a state health department report depend on getting regular monitoring might not have treatment for the uninsured. Our local through Sept. 30. About 40 percent of and medication. access to high- HEALTH CARE patients can now get local HIV specialty those report themselves heterosexual, Salud, which operates clinics for low- quality health care Steve Porter care.” Basinger said, making it an ongoing income people across Northern elsewhere, and to Basinger said NCAP has been allo- threat to a wide portion of the popula- Colorado, is providing space in its Fort do that in their own cating about $16,000 of its budget each tion. Collins office one day a month for local community just makes sense,” year toward helping patients get trans- “It’s important to remind people HIV/AIDS patients who — prior to the Whitman said. portation to Denver or Boulder for that the “H” in HIV stands for human, partnership — had to find transporta- Whitman said HIV/AIDS patients treatment, and the Fort Collins clinic regardless of race, gender or religion,” tion to clinics in Denver or Boulder. who visit the clinic will also have access should help NCAP be able to spend that he said. The Salud clinic is located at 1635 to mental health counseling through a money on other needed services. Basinger, who has been living with Blue Spruce Drive in north Fort Collins. partnership with Health District of “That’s our hope,” he said. HIV/AIDS since 1985, said while preju- Specialized HIV/AIDS treatment is Northern Colorado. AIDS, or Acquired Immune dice against those with AIDS has being provided by Benjamin Young and “If we can provide (AIDS treatment) Deficiency Syndrome, was first identi- diminished greatly over the last 30 John Hammer, physicians with Rocky and also expand the service with mental fied in the early 1980s when gay men years, it’s still an obstacle to getting peo- Mountain CARES in Denver. health care, that’s something we want to began to quickly die of a new kind of ple treated. “I’m very excited about the Northern do,” he said. disease. Researchers discovered the dis- “The stigma here in Northern Colorado Collaborative Care Clinic,” Jeff Basinger is executive director of ease lowered the body’s immune system Colorado is still very alive and well and said Young. “It is an innovative collabo- Northern Colorado AIDS Project, and left it open to opportunistic infec- the fear drives the infection rate and ration that combines advocacy and which is about to begin its 25th year of tions. HIV, or Human keeps people out of care,” he said. health agencies and HIV experts to operation. NCAP, located at 400 Immunodeficiency Virus, is the organ- bring high-quality case management Remington Street in Fort Collins and ism that infects through blood, semen, Steve Porter covers health care for the and medical care to high-risk individu- with a satellite office at 914 11th St. in vaginal fluids or infected needles. Northern Colorado Business Report. He als in their communities, in their lan- Greeley, provides a wide variety of serv- Although there’s no cure, advances can be reached at 970-232-3147 or guages.” ices to those living with HIV/AIDS, in medication over the last 30 years [email protected]. We think locally. Because we’re local.

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than that which we need in any given for receiving and processing stimuli distraction before it happens. This level Tap into the brain’s task. There is no evidence for any such external to the brain (body monitoring of research is opening new doors in the quantum leap in evolutionary progress plus our five senses). cognitive sciences which in turn will ‘background noise’ whereby a single organ gains a capacity As a species that enjoys a wide vari- lead to advances in medicine, therapy, far greater than its immediate need and ety of external stimuli, we talk about, learning and product development. for understanding then just sits there, waiting for the rest act upon, and focus almost entirely on Soon, real-time brain imaging tech- of the organism to catch up. our conscious brain, the functions we nologies will be incorporated into Growing up I often heard that we Our brain is sized and powered are immediately aware of through our portable, personal devices (“iPod EEG use a mere 20 percent of our brain, the exactly to the capacity required for what daily tasks. It seems that as yogis and App”) and awareness studios adjacent rest left to waste, or at best, a relatively we do: walking, talking, hunting, eating, masters of meditation have claimed for to the food court in shopping malls dormant lack of even sending text messages on our thousands of years, we should spend a where for just $9.95 you can see the application. It was mobile phones. little more time looking inside, tapping state of your inner self. claimed that only The March 10, 2010, issue of into that highly evolved, complex infra- As we are just now beginning to true genius, such Scientific American featured “The structure for internal communication observe the internal reflection of the as that of Albert Brain’s Dark Matter.” This article dis- and real-world problem solving. most beautiful actions that we as a Einstein, enabled cussed MRI (magnetic resonance imag- species bestow on each other — love, the engagement of ing) brain scans of the past that showed Predicting distraction compassion and empathy — and the anything more only a small increase or decrease in The Scientific American article went most disturbing displays of anger, fear than a paltry, brain activity relevant to a particular on to show that when an individual is and hatred, I am enthralled by the minor fraction of conscious activity (such as reading, focused on a task, catching a ball or potential for a quantum leap in under- our full potential. HUMANS & talking, or catching a ball) in compari- reading a book, for example, it is the standing the human species. I believe if As one who TECHNOLOGY son to what was then deemed “back- repurposing of the brain’s background we are to find some semblance of world hates to waste any- ground noise,” an indiscernible wash of processes to that particular foreground peace, it will start with a new kind of Kai Staats thing, I took this on electrical activity in the brain. task that is more important than the self-awareness gained not through self- as a challenge, moti- While the introduction of functional increase or decrease in overall activity. help books, regression therapy, or chan- vation to try to gain another 3, 4, even magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) Now this is where it gets really inter- neling the dead, but through a truly 10 percent of my brain’s function. But has improved resolution and accuracy esting. When we focus on a particular deep understanding of how we function. without a means by which my desired of brain activity imaging, it is the rela- task, such as reading a book, we have all As Gandhi said, “Be the change you improvements could be measured, the tively recent recognition of the impor- experienced our minds wandering, want to see in the world,” or, “if you goal remained elusive and I gave up the tance of the background noise which causing us to return to the same para- want to change the world, start with effort. has changed our understanding of the graph three or more times to compre- yourself.” Three decades later, I learned about human brain. Studies show the “noise” hend and absorb the content. The same I’ll bet Gandhi was using more than the nature of evolution of life on this to be, in fact, the internal communica- researchers discovered the ability to pre- 20 percent of his brain. planet. I came to understand that noth- tion between the brain’s compartments. dict, up to 20 seconds prior to the ing gains improved function in advance What’s more, the number of channels event, when an individual will lose Kai Staats is the principal of Over the of environmental or social pressure, for communication within the brain — focus on any given task. Sun Innovations, based in Loveland. He meaning it is impossible for our brains those that connect one piece to another fMRI gives us the ability to see the can be contacted through to have evolved to a capacity greater — far outweigh the number of channels shift in the brain activity that leads to www.overthesun.com.

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Maybe that is why The wonders of 3-D 3-D went the way of the Dodo for a cou- available on your TV ple of decades. But 3-D is back with the right stuff and in a big way. Business literature Even Justin Bieber Illustrated version of I still remember watching my first 3-D has a 3-D movie “SuperFreakonomics” movie — “Creature from the Black Lagoon” coming out in not just charts, graphs — on a local television 2011 — I Page 12 station. I was probably don’t even 6 years old, and if my really know memory serves me cor- what a ETC. rectly, this was the only Justin Bieber one of the classic 3-D is, but it must Calendar horror movies my mean the technol- Events, seminars mother would allow ogy has finally hit the and dates to look me to watch. big time. forward to Page 10 Truth be known, the The explosion in only thing I really 3-D movies, no pun On The Job remember was wearing GEEK intended, isn’t limited to the big People the horribly uncom- CHIC screen — 3-D televisions are also Business Report illustration in the news, fortably cardboard Michael D. Wailes quite the rage. Who wouldn’t want to expe- they on the move glasses with the blue and rience that kind of magic in the comfort of all fall into three primary Page 13 red cellophane lenses. their own home? Definitely not the types: polarizing, active shutter, and lenticu- I’m not sure why we thought that 3-D technophile. So this month I set out to learn Briefcase lar. was such a treat back then. You really could- a little bit more about the technology The most common is polarizing, which is Regional n’t see anything with the glasses on, and if behind 3-D TV. business also what you will most commonly see in developments you took them off, you would go cross-eyed Right now, several different types of tech- movie theaters today. It is the same principle Page 14 trying to focus on the color-shifted picture. nology create the 3-D effect on TVs, but See GEEK, 22 Daily in Review A look back at top news stories Page 15 LISTS Is your business the correct legal entity? Region’s largest today? Manufacturers End of year good time to 4. What entity would provide the best legal advantages Page 16 today? audit basic structure of firm These basic four questions will force you to do the North Weld research necessary to make a change — or understand Every business owner and senior manager must ask why you are staying the same. As you research this topic employers themselves if the legal entity they have created is the best the detail will also help you see where your business is in Page 19 setup for today’s business environment. Remember, the your industry. It may force you to look at your competi- legal structure of your business is very different from the tors, how they have set up their firms and why. tax structure. “The most important concept business owners need to THE CLEVER What are the questions to consider when performing a grasp is that legal structure is separate from tax structure,” BUSINESSMAN personal audit of the current legal entity of your firm? said Fort Collins CPA Geoffrey W. Goudy. “Fortunately, 1. Why was the current entity created? there are just a few commonly utilized legal and tax struc- Tommy Winston 2. What has changed since the firm was created? tures to choose from. However, each business venture is 3. What entity would provide the best tax advantages See CLEVER BUSINESS, 26

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GOOD GAME – 1. Poudre Valley Health System President and CEO Rulon Stacey was in position at the grand opening of Marina Health Campus in Windsor, Nov. 30, to assist Colorado Eagles hockey mascot, Slapshot, with the ribbon-cutting. 2. Nancy Jakobsson, director of Pathways for Grief and Loss; Kathy Anderson, community relations representative for Pathways Hospice; and Michele Desnoes, care provider liaison for Pathways, take a breather at the Fort Collins Chamber After Hours hosted by Pathways Hospice, Nov. 18. 3. Christopher Aronson with Floh Design Group, left; Jason Barton with Reprographics; Dennis Richard, Golden Triangle Construction; and Cameron Abernathy, CTL Thompson, at the Society for Marketing Professional Services Northern Colorado networking meeting, Nov. 18. 4. Randy Hill, Land Title, chats with Erin Burke, Cornerstone Mortgage The Couch Team, at the Greeley Business After Hours hosted by Ehrlich Toyota, Nov. 18.

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sales goal. The sales goal’s connected to ies everywhere. especially when it Illustrated version the economy. The economy’s connected Uganda is a fair drive from comes to human to consumer spending. And consumer Michigan, as anyone with a GPS can tell influence. People, contains more than spending’s connected to the ankle bone. you. So how do you explain that babies the authors found, Flow-charts, studies, old songs and born in Uganda this May and babies respond to incen- just charts, graphs graphs can help you comprehend born in Michigan in the same month tives that are not cause-and-effect in business, but when will share a higher-than-average rate of predictable, and By Terri Schlichenmeyer it comes to the world as a whole, things disabilities as adults? those responses [email protected] are messier. Or are they? Read the newly The explanation, say Levitt and result in unin- illustrated “SuperFreakonomics” by Dubner, comes from freakonomics, a tended conse- BOOKS Your budget is connected to your Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, word they coined to account for the quences that start “SuperFreakonomics income. The income’s connected to a and you’ll see connections and corollar- freaky things that happen in the world, a chain of events. (Illustrated Edition)” Separate chains by Steven D. Levitt may be related in and Stephen J. ways that are Dubner seemingly incon- 2010, Wm. Morrow, gruent. Take, for $40 / $45 Canada instance, those beautiful New York City brownstones. There’s a reason they were built high and imposing, and horses are almost completely to blame. And speaking of houses, sex and real estate don’t often overlap, but this book shows how it happens. As for those private matters, how is it that prostitutes in Chicago are like department store Santas? Are Ladies of the Evening — or any entrepreneur — selling themselves short, or can they utilize an economic fact to boost income without losing customers? Is it possible that there are advantages to things that seem disastrous? Yes, say the authors, just as there are hidden penalties for good news. Although the “Shoe Bomber” never caused loss of life, for instance, his actions cost travelers nearly 600 million minutes a year, or the equivalent of 14 lifetimes. But back to those babies in Uganda and Michigan. Can their parents give them a leg-up on becoming professional athletes? Nope. Sadly, the month of May could be doubly unlucky for them … In the illustrated “SuperFreakonomics,” Levitt (an economist who spoke at Bixpo at The Ranch in Loveland in 2006) and Dubner (a New York Times journalist) offer a wry romp through trivia, business, economy and fluff, making you think, laugh and run to your computer to look up more information. But if you read “SuperFreakonomics” when it came out last year, you may wonder if this is the same book. The answer is yes — but. Yes — but this illustrated version contains charts, pictures, and fun draw- ings in addition to mostly the same words. Yes — but this book is more a browser’s delight. Yes — but it’s zippier and the sidebars are literary peanuts: You can’t stop eating them up. Yes, it’s basically the same book, but improved. If you’ve got a curious mind and love to play with stats and facts, don’t miss the illustrated “Superfreakonomics.” For you, it’s definitely a book to connect with.

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ACADEMICS Association, the Colorado Bar Association and the The Institute of Business and Medical Careers Larimer County Bar added Amanda Cameron as the new education Association. Her practice department specialist at the Fort Collins campus. focuses on business and real Cameron’s responsibilities include supporting all estate transactions. administrative functions and activities of the INSURANCE Education Department concerning its goals and objectives. Additionally, she will support the depart- Jeff Tetrick, chief ment with administrative duties, education func- SEIGEL financial officer for Pinnacol tions and events. Assurance, has been CONSTRUCTION appointed as a national board member to the San Windsor-based con- Francisco-based Integrated tracting and construction Benefits Institute. IBI pro- management firm McCauley grams, resources and expert Constructors Inc. has added networks advance the five new team members: understanding and the impact of health-related Senior Estimator Kelly HUFF TETRICK Huff; Project Engineer productivity on corporate American’s bottom line. Business Report Events

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Nonproﬁt notes TLC Payroll moved above Suehiro’s in Old Town Fort Collins on Linden Street. TLC – which Big O Tires and Arc Thrift Stores have stands for timely, local, committed – provides 401(k) teamed up to help those in need of warm win- retirement plans, workers’ compensation, time ter clothing with their fifth annual Treads For clocks, health insurance, pre-tax needs, employee Threads clothing drive. Now through Jan. 16, and employer online access and more. people can drop off clothing at any of the 34 Big O Tires Front Range locations. Items need- Williams Clothier has opened at 109 S. College ed include coats, hats, mittens, socks, Ave. in Old Town Fort Collins. The casual men’s cloth- sweaters and pants for men, women and chil- ing store offers sport coats, dress shirts, shoes and dren. To find a location, visit www.treads- accessories. forthreads.com. NEW NAME

The Habitat Home Supply Store at 4001 S. KUDOS Taft Hill Road in Fort Collins changed its name to Fort Collins Habitat for Humanity ReStore and HURRY! Poudre Fire Authority Fire Station 4 at 1945 adopted a new logo as part of its rebranding cam- Purchase by 12/31/10 W. Drake Road officially earned LEED Gold certifica- paign. The store sells used cars, building materials, for a Section 179 tax benefit! tion. The combination of the energy efficiency furniture, appliances, hardware and other home strategies resulted in a 20 percent energy cost sav- improvement items. ALBUQUERQUE DENVER EL PASO ings over standard code. Ten percent of materials s s DEALS used in construction of the station contained recy- www.FMHSolutions.com cled content and 20 percent of the materials were Ryan Schlaefer Fine Furniture Inc., a furni- CALL AND harvested and manufactured locally. HAND PALLET TRUCK SPECIAL ORDER TODAY! ture design and manufacturing company in Loveland, is no longer represented by Carter $299/month* Colorado State University nonprofit program Didlake Inc. at the Denver Design District in Plus Expires 12/31/2010 applicable Pets Forever is one of four finalists in Heska taxes Denver, as of Oct. 31. However, the company will con- $299 Corp.’s Inspiration In Action contest. The winner tinue to be represented in Texas at Ellouise Abbott Model# CBY23-II CPYD25 receives $25,000. Pets Forever connects CSU stu- 5,500 lbs. capacity 5,000 lbs. showrooms in Houston and Dallas. • Closed loop control handle base capacity dents and community volunteers with elderly peo- • Pallet entry and exit rollers ple in the community to help them care for their Information Point Technologies in Fort • Polyurethane steer wheels pets. Volunteers help walk dogs, feed pets, trans- • One year full pump warranty Solid Pneumatic Tires Collins completed the purchase of Fort Collins- *Fair Market Value Lease. port pets to veterinary appointments and other 60 month term. W.A.C. Plus LPG Fuel based Media Tech Productions and acquisition of applicable taxes. $150 tasks that enable elderly to keep their pets longer. administraive fee. No down or 185” Triplex Mast its Web services department and hosting clients. advanced payments. 1,500 hrs. max./year. Restricted to GM 3.0L Engine iPoint, a full-service computer consulting firm, pro- normal clean application. FOB FMH IN STOCK FOB: FMH. Call for more viding computer network, Web design, Web market- Offer Expires 12/31/2010 details. ing, social media management and database services, also upgraded its own service offerings to include a more robust and secure e-mail and hosting system. DEADLINES

A group of Fort Collins Cat Rescue supporters challenged the organization with a year-end donation goal. If the rescue raises $10,000 between Nov. 15 and Dec. 31, these supporters, who wish to remain anonymous, will donate $2,400 to help further the rescue’s efforts to find homes for unwanted cats and kittens, as well as provide funding for the low- cost spay/neuter clinic for both dogs and cats. To learn more about these giving opportunities or the donation challenge, visit the FCCR website at www.FortCollinsCatRescue.org or call the shelter at 970-484-8516.

The Greeley Organic Waste Center at 1130 E. Eighth St. is recycling natural Christmas trees for a $1 fee. The center will have an adjusted schedule over the holidays. For more information call 970- 590-4768 or visit www.greeleygov.com/recycle. Last year, residents recycled more than 600 trees through the program. Trees are ground up and turned into compost that will be used to enrich the soil. PROJECTS

Drahota was selected as the general contrac- tor to manage the $2.6 million addition and interior remodel of Markley Honda Dealership at 3401 S. College Ave. in Fort Collins. Phase 1, a 6,400-square- foot addition, is slated for completion March 8. Phase II, an exterior façade remodel, is expected to be completed on April 22.

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Editor’s note: Daily in Review is a par- Williams reported that more than Groups plan to sue USFWS over insect descending order. If a candidate does tial digest of stories reported in the 18,700 donations, ranging from $10 to FORT COLLINS — A coalition of not receive a majority of the votes in a Business Report Daily online service $500,000, were made to 527 different citizens’ groups has provided the U.S. race of three or more, the last-place can- between Nov. 30 and Dec. 10. Follow nonprofit organizations. The most com- Fish and Wildlife Service with formal didate is eliminated and his or her votes Business Report Daily each day at mon gift amount was $100. written notice of their intent to sue over are reassigned to the second choice of www.ncbr.com — click on “Breaking All data is subject to financial recon- its failure to address a petition to list the the voter. The process would continue News” on the home page — or subscribe ciliations. Final results and distribution Arapahoe snowfly, an insect important until one candidate gets more than 50 to have each day’s top items delivered to of the incentive fund should be complet- for the ecological health of the Poudre percent of the vote. your inbox twice a day. ed by Dec. 22 and posted on the site. River basin, as an endangered species. If voters approve the measure in By law, when any person or group April, instant runoff voting will be used DENVER — Don Marostica will be Apartment vacancies fall, rents rise petitions to list a species under the for the first time in the 2013 municipal stepping down as executive director of the DENVER — Apartment vacancies Endangered Species Act, the USFWS has election. Colorado Office of Economic fell to recent lows in most of Northern 90 days to evaluate the petition and Development and International Trade as Colorado as rents rose to new highs dur- make a finding. The coalition filed the part of the transition to the administra- ing the third quarter of 2010, according petition on April 6; the finding should tion of governor-elect John Hickenlooper. to a report released by the state’s have occurred by July 6. Marostica, a former Loveland city Division of Housing. council member and state representa- The lowest metro-area vacancy rate EPA issues permit for Powertech test tive, was appointed to the post in July in the state was in Fort Collins, where 2009 by outgoing Gov. Bill Ritter. Before DENVER — The U.S. Environmental the rate dropped to 2.8 percent from 5.5 Protection Agency has issued an injec- being tapped by the Democratic gover- percent, year-over-year — the lowest nor to head the office, Republican tion well permit to Powertech USA that levels reported since first-quarter 2001, allows the company to re-inject ground- Marostica was leading the Long-Term when the vacancy rate was 2.6 percent. Fiscal Stability Commission charged water from an aquifer pump test at its Greeley’s third-quarter vacancy rate was proposed Centennial uranium mine site with making recommendations on fix- 3.9 percent, down from 7.4 percent a ing the systemic problems afflicting the in Weld County. year ago, also the lowest since third- The permit does not allow any urani- state budget. quarter 2001’s 2.5 percent. During his tenure, Marostica focused um recovery but is intended to allow 2011 From the third quarter of 2009 to the OEDIT’s mission on job creation and Powertech to study hydrogeology at the third quarter of this year, vacancies fell site, including data about the integrity of retention. in all Front Range metro areas except featuring Marostica said he will be looking for confining zones surrounding the injec- Loveland. Loveland’s vacancy rate of 5.5 tion area. other opportunities in either the for- percent was up from 4.3 percent for the profit or nonprofit sector. As part of the aquifer pump test, third quarter of 2009. The statewide Powertech will remove about 43,000 gal- Proposed floodplain regs available vacancy rate for the third quarter was 5.5 lons of groundwater from a sandstone percent, falling from a rate of 6.6 percent aquifer in the Fox Hills formation near FORT COLLINS — Public input a year earlier. Nunn. The groundwater will be placed in gathered by Fort Collins Utilities con- Median rents rose across the state as surface holding tanks for a period of time Sept. 15, 2011 cerning proposed Poudre River flood- vacancies fell, with the exception of and then re-injected into the ground. plain regulations is now available for Pueblo, where rents were flat. Rents in The company did not release a date viewing online at fcgov.com/poudreregs. both Fort Collins/Loveland and Greeley when the pump test would take place. The materials from the November open rose to new highs of $856.53 and Sign up now to reserve house are also on display at the $661.07, respectively. Northside Aztlan Community Center, Ranked voting placed on Fort Collins ballot your exhibitor space! 112 Willow St. 15 percent of Northern Colorado in FORT COLLINS — The Fort Collins Options currently being reviewed by poverty in 2009 City Council has referred a citizen- 970.232.3132 the Fort Collins city council include: backed measure to change the way votes I Option 1: Adopt a 0.1 foot-rise WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly 15 are counted to the April 5 ballot. 970.221.5400 percent of the population of Northern The measure calls for a ranked-voting Fax: 970.221.5432 floodway E-mail: [email protected] I Colorado was living in poverty last year, system — also known as instant-runoff Option 2: Prohibit all structures in www.ncbr.com the 100-year floodplain according to figures released by the U.S. voting — to be used for the election of I Option 3: No change to the regula- Census Bureau. city council and mayoral candidates. In tions This was up from about 12 percent in the current system, the candidate who I Other Options: No adverse impact, 2008, and more than 2 percent higher gets the most votes wins even without variations of previous options. than Colorado’s overall 12.6 percent getting the majority of votes if there are Due to a technical glitch with submis- poverty rate for 2009. more than two contenders. sions to the e-mail and website comment Larimer and Weld counties were The new system would allow voters to forms, comments sent to Utilities’ website among eight counties in the state where list their preferences of candidates in during the month of November should poverty rates increased between 2007 be resubmitted by e-mail to mhilmes- and 2009; no counties in the state saw a [email protected] or via phone 970- decrease over that period. 221-6700, TDD 970-224-6003. The national poverty rate for 2009 All comments will be presented to was 14.3 percent, up from 13.2 percent city council, which is set to discuss the in 2008, the Census figures showed. proposed changes at a work session on Reflecting the ongoing recession, Jan. 11 and its regular meeting on Feb. 1. median household income fell statewide as well as in Northern Colorado. Nonprofits profit on Colorado Gives Day Colorado’s median income in 2009 was $55,735, down from $57,701 in 2008. In DENVER — The first-ever Colorado Weld County, the drop was to $54,578 in Gives Day on Dec. 8 exceeded organiz- 2009 from $55,845 in 2008. Larimer ers’ expectations eight times over. County incomes also fell — to $56,281 Donors from across the state con- from $56,701 in 2008 — but wound up tributed more than $8 million in 24 above the state median. hours through GivingFirst.org, a website For 2009, the poverty threshold was hosted by the Community First defined as an annual income of $10,956 Foundation for an individual — the equivalent of “We hoped that the inaugural earning about $5.72 per hour for a full- Colorado Gives Day would exceed the $1 time job — or $21,756 for a family of million target,” said Marla Williams, four with two children. president and CEO of the foundation. 16 | Northern Colorado Business Report www.ncbr.com | Dec. 17-23, 2010 Largest Manufacturers Ranked by no. of employees

COMPANY YEAR FOUNDED PREV ADDRESS EMPLOYEES 2010 E-MAIL PERSON IN CHARGE RANK RANK PHONE/FAX EMPLOYEES 2009 REVENUES 2009 PRODUCTS/SERVICES WEB SITE W/TITLE

WOODWARD GOVERNOR CO. 1000 E. Drake Road 963 Designs and manufactures energy-control systems and [email protected] Tom Gendron, CEO, 1 Fort Collins, CO 80525 986 $1,430,125,000 components for industrial engines, turbines and power www.woodward.com Chairman of the board 1 970-482-5811/970-498-3214 equipment. 1870

CARESTREAM HEALTH INC. 2000 Howard Smith Ave. W. 600 N/A Mike Haas, Site manager 3 Windsor, CO 80550 650 N/A Medical films. www.carestreamhealth.com 2007 2 970-304-4600/970-392-3425 Hans Jespersen, Senior VESTAS BLADES AMERICA INC. vice president / General 11140 Eastman Park Drive 500 N/A Manufactures the blades for wind turbines. [email protected] manager for Vestas 3 2 Windsor, CO 80550 650 www.vestas.com Blades - America Region 970-674-6100/970-686-1103 1979 INTEL CORP. 4701 Technology Parkway 418 [email protected] Paul K. French, Project 5 Fort Collins, CO 80528 420 $35,100,000,000 Semiconductor chip design and manufacturing, software. www.intel.com manager 4 408-765-8080/N/A 1968

ABOUND SOLAR Tom Tiller, President and 2695 Rocky Mountain Ave. 350 [email protected] CEO NR Loveland, CO 80538 250 N/A Manufacturer of thin-film photovoltaic modules. www.abound.com Stephen Abely, CFO 5 970-619-5369/970-619-5341 2007

AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. 900 S. Taft Ave. 275 Measurement technologies and solutions for [email protected] William P. Sullivan, CEO 4 Loveland, CO 80537 325 $4,500,000,000 communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical www.agilent.com and President 6 970-679-5000/N/A analysis. 1999

KODAK COLORADO DIVISION 9952 Eastman Park Drive 240 [email protected] Rob Gray, Site manager 6 Windsor, CO 80551 450 N/A Consumer and commercial imaging products. www.kodak.com 1969 7 970-686-7611/970-686-4154

OTTERBOX 1 Old Town Square, Suite 303 226 Innovators of protective solutions for mobile hand-held [email protected] Curt Richardson, Founder 23 Fort Collins, CO 80524 130 $48,200,000 technology. www.otterbox.com and CEO 8 970-493-8446/970-493-1755 1998

OWENS-ILLINOIS INC. (O-I) 11133 Weld County Road 64-3/4 206 N/A Norm Love, Plant 8 Windsor, CO 80550 200 N/A Glass container manufacturer. www.o-i.com manager 9 970-674-3800/419-247-2505 1903 Complete design, engineering, fabrication and testing of S.A. TECHNOLOGY remotely operated and robotic equipment and 3985 S. Lincoln St., Suite 100 165 $16,615,903 containment systems. Carbon fiber manufacturing [email protected] Michael Cappello, CEO 10 16 Loveland, CO 80537 130 including hand-layup and winding, and autoclave and www.satechnology.com 1992 970-663-1431/970-663-5898 oven curing. Custom machining and waterjet cutting. GOLDEN ALUMINUM INC. 1405 E. 14th St. 160 [email protected] Leland Lorentzen, 12 Fort Lupton, CO 80621 165 $86,000,000 Bare and coated aluminum coils. www.goldenaluminum.com President 11 303-654-8301/303-654-8356 1983 Design and verification of AMD’s latest processor cores, ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. as well as cache and I/O subsystems. In addition to Dirk Meyer, President and 2950 E. Harmony Road 150 $5,400,000,000 B processor design, the Fort Collins site supports AMD’s N/A CEO 12 14 Fort Collins, CO 80528 150 embedded processor business through testing, www.amd.com 1969 970-226-9500/N/A qualification and marketing of our embedded products. WALKER MANUFACTURING CO. 5925 E. Harmony Road 125 Commercial-grade riding and walk-behind lawnmowers [email protected] Bob W. Walker, President 13 Fort Collins, CO 80528 160 $35,427,000 and attachments. www.walkermowers.com 1959 13 970-221-5614/970-221-5619

FLEETWOODGOLDCOWYARD 5605 Goldco Drive 123 Palletizing and de-palletizing equipment for both full N/A Jim Krapes, Business unit 15 Loveland, CO 80538 133 N/A goods and empty containers. www.fgwa.com director 14 970-663-4770/970-663-2326 1971

BOULDER SCIENTIFIC CO. 598 Third St., P.O. Box 548 120 Pharmaceutical intermediates, metallocenes, boron [email protected] John Birmingham, 18 Mead, CO 80542 120 N/A compounds and custom chemicals. www.bouldersci.com Founder 15 970-535-4494/970-535-4584 1972

PRODUCTION CONTROL SERVICES INC. (PCS) 3771 Eureka Way 116 Plunger lift, gas lift, nitrogen generation and automation [email protected] Jeff Giacomino, President 17 Frederick, CO 80516 125 N/A for oil and gas wells. www.pcslift.com 1985 16 720-407-3550/720-407-3540 Product design and contract manufacturing services for electronic and electromechanical products. Cost TDP-TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN PRODUCTS INC. reduction redesign, design for manufacturability, design 609 14th St. S.W. 104 $14,228,340 for environment (RoHS), ISO 9001:2008 and ISO [email protected] Terry Precht, President 17 NR Loveland, CO 80537 94 13485:2003 certified for design and contract www.tdpcorp.com 1995 970-667-8570/970-667-9332 manufacturing services for commercial, aerospace, and medical device industries. ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY Thomas M. Ingraham, 3920 Patton Ave. 90 [email protected] President 24 Loveland, CO 80538 60 $11,000,000 Empty container conveyance systems. www.amtcolorado.com Rodney S. Talbot 18 970-612-0315/970-612-0320 1996

TECHNICAL MOLDED PRODUCTS INC. 3713 Canal Drive 88 [email protected] Harley Hazzard, President NR Fort Collins, CO 80524 82 N/A Custom injection molding. www.techmolded.com 1977 19 970-484-9111/970-484-4242

SUN MOUNTAIN INC. 140 Commerce Drive 80 [email protected] Jared Meier, General 20 Berthoud, CO 80513 100 N/A Custom wood doors, flooring and moldings. www.sunmountaindoor.com manager 20 970-532-2105/970-532-2208 1998

ALL AMERICAN HOMES COLORADO LLC 3333 E. Center Drive 75 Manufacturer of custom-modular homes and commercial [email protected] Dan Fitzgerald, General 19 Milliken, CO 80543 105 N/A buildings. www.allamericanhomes.com manager 21 970-587-0544/970-587-0545 1994

ICE ENERGY LLC 9351 Eastman Park Drive 70 Advanced energy storage and smart grid solutions for [email protected] John McGee, COO 25 Windsor, CO 80550 55 N/A the electric utility industry. www.ice-energy.com David Schwarzbach 22 970-545-3630/970-545-3634 2003

SUMMIT SOLUTIONS C 19750 Weld County Road 7 50 Container solutions for aerospace and military [email protected] Rob Carr, CEO 10 Berthoud, CO 80513 N/A N/A applications. www.summitsolutions.us.com 2010 23 970-532-2268/970-532-2269

ICS SIPS 1901 E. Prospect Road 20 [email protected] Brian Propp, President NR Fort Collins, CO 80525 N/A N/A Manufacturer of Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs). www.ics-rm.com and CEO 24 970-282-7477/303-484-4892 2004

DATA PURE LLC 914 Second St., Unit C 17 Contract manufacturing electrical components, machine [email protected] Brian New, Owner NR Berthoud, CO 80513 N/A N/A shop and 3480 tape cleaners. www.datapure.com 1988 25 970-532-4608/970-532-2019 Region surveyed consists of Larimer and Weld counties and the City of Brighton. Based upon responses to Business Report survey researched by Ross Manley Big R Bridge requested to not be listed. To be considered for future lists, e-mail [email protected] N/A-Not Applicable NR-Not Previously Ranked B Global earnings. C Formerly BAE Systems, Container Solutions Dec. 17-23, 2010 | www.businessreportdaily.com Northern Colorado Business Report | 17 MANUFACTURING Clean, green and on upward growth curve

Eldon James biomed arm puts tube maker in world market

By Tracee Sioux [email protected]

LOVELAND — The future looks bright for Eldon James Corp., a plastic tubing and fittings manufacturer that started out in Loveland 23 years ago as part of Value Plastics Inc. Now the company finds itself on the cutting edge of medical technology with innovative products developed through its subsidiary EJ BioMed LLC. These new products are made in its 10,000- square-foot “clean room” on the first floor of the upscale Cortina building in downtown Fort Collins. “It appears really clear that Eldon James and EJ BioMed has a bright future,” said Bill Coulson, president of product development for the corporation. “The growth curve has been tremendous, even through a down economy, and I don’t see it slowing up. Courtesy EJ BioMed We continue to provide products that KEEP IT CLEAN — The dual head extrusion line at the EJ BioMed clean room in Fort Collins is used in the production of medical tubing. The products are dou- See ELDON JAMES, 18 ble-bagged and sealed in the clean environment before being shipped to customers around the world. 18 | Northern Colorado Business Report www.ncbr.com | Dec. 17-23, 2010

changed the business,” Bill Coulson said. “Hospitals are trying to phase out looked like polycarbonate, made out of a ELDON JAMES, from 17 PVC in their tubing,” Marcia Coulson nice-looking plastic material, we did that Clean and Green said. “European governments are man- and came out with a whole line of alter- customers want and need and they are Marcia Coulson, president and CEO dating that PVC tubing not be a part of native fittings called Crystal Vu.” finding us. As they come to us, we work of Eldon James, credits the growth medical products because it has adverse The medical industry requires first- with these customers to develop their explosion to introduction of EJ effects on humans.” run materials in its products, which products.” BioMed’s Clean and Green line of tubing EJ Biomed is also making polycar- would require EJ BioMed to dispose of Eldon James still makes top-of-the- products. She credits her husband, Bill bonate-free, BPA-free and plasticizer- 75,000 pounds of plastic scraps a year. line automotive, plumbing, water, bever- Coulson, with the innovation and cre- free tubing. This innovation is saving The company can recycle 100 percent of age dispensing and industrial tubing and ativity behind the Clean and Green line. hospitals money when it comes time to the scraps into salable tubing for other connectors in its 18,000-square foot “(Bill and I) got married shortly after dispose of the single-use tubing. markets, such as automotive and plumb- facility on West 66th Street in Loveland, we opened the clean room,” she said. Currently, hospitals must have the prod- ing, through the Eldon James Loveland but the expansion three years ago with “Bill has really embraced, taken over and ucts incinerated, but the fumes given off operation. EJ Biomed has enabled the company to filled a need for us in the manufacturing by these materials is considered harmful, grow to about 30 employees and enter of tubing. He has really gone for the new so the hospitals generally pay a disposal International growth opportunity the global medical and pharmaceutical and innovative materials.” company to haul it away. Because very few companies in the marketplace. The healthier, more environmentally- “A lot of medical products are made world have come up with healthier, more “We’re talking to customers that we friendly tubing line is made with no from polycarbonate, but there is concern environmentally friendly alternatives to had not talked to in the past. By being PVCs. It uses a proprietary blend of about polycarbonates throughout the the old materials used to make plastic it able to offer clean-room products it’s polyethylenes, polypropylenes and ther- medical industry,” Marcia Coulson said. has proved to be a tremendous growth evolved the business, dynamically moplastic elastomers instead. “People are looking for products that opportunity for EJ Biomed and Eldon James. “Our new clean and green products are allowing the company to grow very quickly,” Marcia Coulson said. “We’re Bravo! Entrepreneurs one of the few companies in the world Greeley manufacturing these clean and green 1998-2010 tubes. That’s really what’s bringing in foreign companies that want to be on the 2010...... Ted Warner leading edge.” Connecting Point She said representatives from compa- 2008-2009...... Trent Johnson nies in five to seven different countries Greeley Hat Works came to visit EJ BioMed this year. The 2007 ...... Larry Seastrom firm sells Internationally and has distrib- New Frontier Bank utors throughout the world. “We are bringing new materials to 2006...... Roger Knopf market that the industry has not seen yet Envirotech Services, Inc. and the industry is evolving,” said Bill 2005 ...... Mark Kendall Coulson. “We’re seeing some of the early Kendall Printing Company leaders in some of these different indus- 2004 ...... Tim and Sally Warde tries getting away from some of the Northern Colorado Paper materials they’ve used in the past. Sometimes what the customer is looking 2003...... Tom Roche for is difficult to do, because it hasn’t Roche Constructors, Inc. been done before. So, we end up figuring 2002 ...... Ruben and Scott Ehrlich things out. It’s a combination of knowl- Ehrlich Motors edge and ability and stick-to-it-ivness. 2001 ...... Jerry Morgensen We engineer solutions for people.” Hensel Phelps Construction Company Bill Coulson, formerly a real estate 2000...... Bill Farr developer who brought the Cortina building to the corner of Howes and Centennial Bank of the West Canyon streets, said tubing manufactur- 1999...... John Todd ing has been “a natural fit for me to fall Toddyʼs into.” 1998 ...... Darrell McAllister “This being such a hideously bad real 1st Choice Bank estate market, we don’t have any inten- tion of being any part of it,”he said. “I’m really a builder. Everything I’ve always “I was surprised, humbled and honored to receive the done in the past has involved finding a 2010 Bravo Entrepreneur Award for Greeley. solution to whatever it is we’re trying to Entrepreneurial spirit is what drives business growth do, whether that’s real estate, building a and economic development in our area. I want to building, evolving plastics or developing all of these products for Eldon James. personally thank the Northern Colorado Business We’re both builders, Marcia and I; my Report for recognizing current and motivating future past experience is a hand-in-hand fit.” entrepreneurs.” Putting a manufacturing facility in — Ted Warner downtown Fort Collins has worked to the Coulsons’ advantage. They’ve found that the “fond impression” people from all over the world have of Colorado has helped them court new customers. They enjoy taking out-of-town guests out for lunch or dinner downtown. Often the customers return in the evenings, providing a little boost to the local economy. The company itself has provided more than a little boost to the local economy, according to Marcia Coulson. “We can’t disclose the details because we have local competitors, but it’s been a very good growth year for us,” she said. “It takes two to three years of testing to prove to the FDA that a component works, and that it’s safe for humans. We’re in the final phase of several proj- 2010 Bravo Award Sponsors ects that are under FDA consideration so next year should be great.” Dec. 17-23, 2010 | www.businessreportdaily.com Northern Colorado Business Report | 19 Largest North Weld Employers Private sector, ranked by no. of employees E-MAIL COMPANY WEB SITE ADDRESS EMPLOYEES 2010 REVENUES 2009 PERSON IN CHARGE RANK PREV RANK PH0NE/FAX EMPLOYEES 2009 REVENUES 2008 PRODUCT/SERVICES TITLE AGLAND INC. 260 Factory Road 185 $214,017,401 Fertilizer, chemicals, seed, petroleum, car-care centers, www.aglandinc.com 1 Eaton, CO 80615 185 $194,787,064 lubricants, convenience stores, country store, retread tire Mitch Anderson 1 970-454-4000/970-454-2144 facility, inputs, feed and feed manufacturing. CEO, General manager HIGHLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT [email protected] 210 W. First St. 128 $7,890,356 www.weldre9.k12.co.us 2 Ault, CO 80610 126 $6,195,949 K-12 education. Robert D. Ring Jr. 2 970-834-1345/970-834-1347 Superintendent HARSH INTERNATIONAL INC. [email protected] 600 Oak Ave. 85 $20,000,000 Cattle-feed mixers, hydraulic dumping equipment, contract www.harshenviro.com 3 Eaton, CO 80615 105 $25,000,000 laser and water-jet cutting and environmental solutions. Robert E. Brown 3 970-454-2291/970-454-3491 President [email protected] DOUBLE J MEAT PACKING INC. Kelli Hasbrouck-Crider 726 W. Main St. 80 N/A Custom butchering and processing of beef, bison and lamb. Jay Hasbrouck 4 4 Pierce, CO 80650 81 N/A Secretary 970-834-1388/970-834-9727 President [email protected] EATON COUNTRY CLUB www.eatoncountryclub.com 37661 Weld County Road 39 60 $2,225,000 Fine dining, driving range, putting green and chipping area. Rick Cole 5 5 Eaton, CO 80615 70 $2,055,150 Championship golf course. Bill Day 970-454-2587/970-454-3095 General manager and PGA professional A-1 ORGANICS [email protected] 16350 Weld County Road 76 51 $9,500,000 Composts, wood mulches, grinding and screening services, www.a1organics.com 6 Eaton, CO 80615 46 $8,900,000 green waste recycling, food waste recycling, general Heather Trego 6 970-454-3492/970-454-3232 recycling services. CFO HERITAGE MARKET [email protected] 180 S. Elm St. 50 N/A www.heritagemarket.net NR Eaton, CO 80615 N/A N/A General grocery store. John Rohn 7 970-454-1900/970-454-2422 Owner PRO PALLET INC. [email protected] 920 E. Collins Ave. 50 N/A www.propallet.net 11 Eaton, CO 80615 50 N/A Manufactures and recycles pallets. Jean Kyne 8 970-454-3323/970-454-3286 President FARMERS BANK [email protected] 119 First St. 30 $15,350,000 www.farmersbank-weld.com 7 Ault, CO 80610 30 $17,205,075 Full-service bank. Fred J. Bauer 9 970-834-2121/970-834-1351 President NORTHERN FEED & BEAN OF LUCERNE LTD. [email protected] 33278 U.S. Highway 85 18 N/A www.northernfeedandbean.com 9 Lucerne, CO 80646 18 N/A Dry-bean processor and livestock-feed dealer. Larry Lande 10 970-352-7875/970-352-7833 Owner/General manager NORTH WELD COUNTY WATER DISTRICT [email protected] 32825 WCR 39 18 N/A www.nwcwd.org NR Lucerne, CO 80646 18 N/A Potable water. Don Posselt 11 970-356-3020/970-395-0997 District manager HARPER LIVESTOCK CO. 134 Oak Ave. 17 N/A [email protected] 13 Eaton, CO 80615 15 N/A Feedlot for sheep, lambs and cattle. Harold Harper 12 970-454-3181/970-454-3210 President DOUBLE J FARMS & FEEDING INC. B 39646 Weld County Road 39 13 N/A [email protected] 10 Ault, CO 80610 15 N/A Commercial cattle and lamb feedlots and farming. 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said of the year-long development of the plan. “I remember when we started it was like a 250-car train that had never been hooked together before. It’s involved almost every department in the city and nearly every group in the city.” Monitoring but not involved Some groups have been less involved than others. The Northern Colorado Homebuilders Association, based in Windsor but with many Fort Collins members, has been monitoring the plan’s progress but has not been closely involved with its development, according to Dotti Weber, HBA executive offi- Drawing courtesy Russell Mills Studios; photo by Steve Porter, Northern Colorado Business Report cer. NOW AND THEN — The photo on the left shows what Lincoln Avenue just east of downtown Fort Collins looks like today and the drawing on the right shows “We haven’t been very involved with what the same area might look like in the future following policies included in Plan Fort Collins. Plan Fort Collins,” said Weber in an e- mail. “It isn’t that we aren’t concerned, but have been following code changes with volunteers instead of staff and that limits our ability to really delve into them.” Priority to-do list Plan Fort Collins sets several immediate priority action items that would be concurrent with the plan’s adoption: I Update the City Structure Plan Map and make Growth Management Area boundary adjustments I Update the city’s Targeted Inﬁll and Redevelopment Map I Update the city’s Pedestrian Plan Map that shows new Pedestrian Priority Areas I Update the city’s Master Street Plan I Update the city’s Transportation Capital Improvements Plan

Other priority action items for city council not dependent on Plan Fort Collins’ adoption include: I Adopt Land Use Code amendments, including design standards for Eastside and Westside neighborhoods to address neighborhood compatibility issues I Adjust the city’s Growth Management Area boundary to address areas east of I-25 I Consider and adopt amendments to “green” the 2009 International Building Code adopted in September

Schneider said he has been tracking the plan on behalf of the HBA but not that closely recently because “nothing’s going to happen in the next year or two.” Still, Schneider said he is concerned about changes in the city’s building code under Plan Fort Collins designed to make it more “green,”emphasizing energy-efficient appliances and building materials, for example. “I guess the issue I have is it’s more of a social code that really shouldn’t be mandated and the property owner should have the right to decide if they want to do something or not,” he said. “A lot of these things should be recommendations and suggestions instead of built into the code.” But John Phelan, the city’s energy services manager, said the city’s Green Building Program — a priority identi- fied by city council during the 2010-11 budget process — is aimed at benefiting the entire community through reduced carbon emissions and less energy and water use. “It’s the first piece of a much bigger See PLAN FC, 21 Dec. 17-23, 2010 | www.businessreportdaily.com Northern Colorado Business Report | 21

PLAN FC, from 20 puzzle if our goal is to better align our What’s next? built environment,” Phelan said. “We “The Big Reveal” on Dec. 13 was only the have builders who do this in standard beginning. There are several more steps practice, and these are some reasonable before Plan Fort Collins is officially adopted: next steps to ask everybody to do. It has both individual residential benefits and I Jan. 11 — City council work session to community benefits through reduced review and comment on draft plans need for new infrastructure and the costs that go with that.” I Jan. 20 — Planning and Zoning Board adoption (public comment allowed) Transportation planning changes Kathleen Bracke, the city’s trans- I Jan. 26 — City council special work ses- portation and special projects director sion to review and comment on draft who’s leading the update of the city’s plans Transportation Master Plan, said Plan I Feb. 15 — City council first vote on final Fort Collins contains several trans- plan (public comment allowed) portation-related items of interest to business. I March 1 — City council second vote on “There’s a lot of aspects in the final plan (public comment allowed) Transportation Master Plan that support our local economy,” she said. “That’s one of its main purposes: mov- For more information, visit ing people, goods and services across www.fcgov.com/planfortcollins. the region.” Bracke said one example of a change in the new plan is in how the city updates its master street plan. University, Northern Colorado “Typically, we’ve sized street classifica- Economic Development Corp., the tions predominantly on street uses,” she Rocky Mountain Innovation Initiative, said. “As part of the new update, we’re Downtown Development Authority, saying, ‘What are the economic, envi- Larimer County Workforce Center and ronmental and human or social impli- the Fort Collins Area Chamber of cations of those designations?’ Commerce. While Plan Fort Collins specifically focuses the city’s job-creation efforts on established Targeted Industry Clusters — clean energy, water, bioscience and “It’s a planner’s technology and those businesses that are “uniquely Fort Collins” — Frank utopia but very thin said it also aims to support all local business. on economic reality.” “There’s nothing in this plan about making doing business here more difficult,” he said.“When I talk to new peo- David May, executive director ple coming to town with a business, they’re very pleased by the planning. Fort Collins Area Chamber of What we’ve done on Harmony Road and downtown, especially, is what Commerce they’re looking for.” Frank said the city’s future growth, through Plan Fort Collins, will focus on infill development and redevelopment “It’s a fundamental difference in how over the next couple of decades because we’ve gone about the planning process.” the city now has few places to grow out- Bracke said that when it’s finalized ward. by city council in early 2011, Plan Fort He said the old arguments over Collins is expected to highlight growth-or-no-growth are mostly gone. “enhanced travel corridors” in the city “Now our borders are pretty much that include East Harmony Road, fixed, so that has something to do with Timberline Avenue and Mountain Vista it,” he said. “I think people today are from Anheuser-Busch to Mulberry more concerned about protecting our Street. quality of life and being the central city Two new corridors receiving atten- in the region for culture and the econo- tion in the update of the transportation my and jobs.” plan, Bracke noted, are the Prospect But chamber president May said Road corridor from Interstate 25 to Plan Fort Collins gives little more than CSU and from CSU west to its Foothills lip service to the issue. He said support- Campus. ing Targeted Industry Clusters is “no The transportation plan is also giv- different from what they’re doing today. ing more attention than ever before to The city needs to elevate its game when bicycle, bus and pedestrian travel in the it comes to generating primary employ- city, she said. ment.” “The idea is to give people as many May said focusing on infill and rede- choices as possible to travel for different velopment is not good for local devel- purposes,” she said. opers because it’s “five times harder to do than traditional development.” Economic health emphasized? Overall, May said Plan Fort Collins Plan Fort Collins contains a five- — as currently drafted — is not the page chapter on “Economic Health” vision the city needs to guide it into the that outlines strategies the city intends future. to follow to support job growth and a “It’s not a thumbs-down on the strong local economy. The chapter says plan,” he said. “But it’s a statement that the city intends to maintain its role as a says it’s light on the economy and heavy regional economic center with continu- on dreams that we don’t know how we’ll ing collaboration with Colorado State pay for.” 22 | Northern Colorado Business Report www.ncbr.com | Dec. 17-23, 2010

focus your eyes independently — ever The upside is that the glasses are higher speed — around 120 Hz. GEEK, from 9 tried to make sense out of one of those inexpensive and in most cases, the tele- Active shutter glasses are controlled “magic images” that were all the rage vision that you currently own is capable by a transmitter in the television itself. It behind those glasses with red and blue about 15 years ago? Try watching a fea- of delivering the 3-D content. sends a timing signal to tell the glasses to — technically anachrome red and cyan ture length film with that kind of ocular The active shutter method also alternately darken one eye, and then the — lenses. Whether you are wearing concentration and your eyeballs would employs a stereoscopic image. The dif- other, in synchronization with the clear, tinted, or colored glasses, the probably explode. ference is in the delivery method, or refresh rate of the screen. The screen, in underlying principle is known as stere- But if you combine both images into more accurately, the viewing of those turn, is alternating between different oscopy. a single image and then use polarized images. Once again, you have to don a images for each eye, using a technique lenses to control what each eye is able to pair of spectacles in order to see the 3-D called alternate-frame sequencing. The Stereo for the eyes see, voila, you can achieve the desired effect, but instead of using polarized end result is that each eye sees only the Stereoscopy has been around almost effect and you will swear that Jaws is lenses, active shutter glasses are just image intended for it. The viewer as long as we have had the ability to about to bite your head off. what the name implies—shutters for doesn’t notice this alternating pattern capture pictures. The key behind stere- The downside to polarized 3-D view- your eyes. 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than what they sold for, I could have sold them.” AgriculturalAgricultural Land (app (approx.rox. 1 mile) Vernon said the auction had “a good CountyCounty RoadRoad 62 JeffersonJefferson Ave.Ave. turnout, for sure,” but there weren’t enough investors willing to pay more and sit on the property until the economy rebounds. What went 25 Vernon said Zweygardt’s decision to release the properties was “economically under the gavel driven.” “He was looking for a way to move on Four parcels of land in and and get out of Wellington,”Vernon said. near Wellington, owned by A woman who answered the tele- developer Delmer Zweygardt St. 5th S phone at Zweygardt’s Parker residence of Parker, were sold at auction last week said he would not comment on to developers and investors t. the land sale. for more than $6 million. The auction included the Main Investment opportunity Street Market, 80 acres of RonaldRonald ReaganReagan Ave.Ave. Wellington resident Dan Hupp was

mixed-use development land, ad t ibsSt. Nimbus Mt. Nimbus one of the successful bidders on some 185 acres of ag land, 12 com- commercial lots just south of Main mercial lots and 103 residen- Mt. Oxf Oxfordord St. tial lots. Street Market. Hupp said he had no particular plans for the lots at present. ro hern Rail t St. r “It’s just an investment,” he said. BSZZ bVS[ or r St. 3rd St. Paradise Ranch N Property buyers had to put down a 10

on percent non-refundable deposit on their g]c¸`S ]\S ]T Main Street Market 25 gt purchases immediately after the auction

Commercial i in rlington No rt rlington r rl and agree to complete closing on the bVS U]]R Ucga Residential BurlingtonBu Northern Railroad property by Dec. 31. Main Street Market is leased by Panhandle Cooperative System based in Scottsbluff, Neb. The co-op, founded in 3ZW[W\ObS UcSaae]`Y CountyCounty Road 60 1942, includes three Nebraska groceries, a store in Torrington, Wyo., and the T]` Q]\ac[Sà Wellington store along with several gas <]e []`S bVO\ SdS` Q]\ac[Sà WineWine Cup St. stations, convenience stores, fuel and O`S QO`STcZZg QVSQYW\U ]cb propane delivery businesses and seed PcaW\SaaSa PST]`S a^S\RW\U r St. 3rd St. and fertilizer outlets. Bob Pile, Panhandle president, did BVS 000 b`cab[O`Y PSaWRS g]c` not respond to a request for comment on Q][Ô\g UWdSa Q]\ac[Sà the sale. Q]\TWRS\QSÓ\R ^`]dWRSa g]c Panhandle’s current lease runs until eWbV O ^]eS`TcZ Q][^SbWbWdS SRUS 2017, and auctioneer Williams said Panhandle has the option of renewing % W\ Q]\ac[Sà aOg bVSg e]cZR 25 the lease for two additional 10-year peri- PS []`S ZWYSZg b] Pcg T`][ O ods. Williams said the store generates Q][Ô\g RSaWU\ObSR Oa O 000 about $200,000 in profit annually. /QQ`SRWbSR 0caW\Saa Williams said the Dec. 9 sale was a % >`W\QSb]\ @SaSO`QV 4W\RW\Ua rare moment for investors to make a fast Courtesy Williams and Williams Real Estate Auction profit. “For investors, this is an auction G]ç`S W\ U]]R from heaven, as I see it,” he said. Q][Ô\g eWbV bVS Williams said his company could not release the names of high bidders but 0SbbS` 0caW\Saa WELLINGTON, from 1 turn happened and he wanted to sell it.” noted that information would become 0c`SOc Curtis Vernon with Keller Williams in public after each property closing. Fort Collins, who set up the auction, said Wellington administrator Lorentzen 7\abO\bZg Q][[c\WQObS g]c` $1.65 million of the building where the $6.2 million raised by the sale failed said the sale prices for many of the resi- SbVWQOZ bÒQY `SQ]`R´bV`]cUV Main Street Market —Wellington’s only to meet the owner’s expectations. dential lots, which averaged under bVS 000 /a O 000 /QQ`SRWbSR grocery store — opened in 2007. $15,000, would likely make building 0caW\Saa g]c QO\ T`SSZg RWa^ZOg Directly west of Main Street Market, homes more economically viable than bVS eSZZY\]e\ b`cab[O`Y bOYS an 80-plus-acre parcel known as had been the case. ORdO\bOUS ]T ]\ZW\S b]]Za bVOb Paradise Ranch zoned for mixed-use “(Builders) should be able to build a R`WdS Q]\ac[Sà b] g]c` PcaW\Saa development sold for $1.5 million. “For investors, house and sell them and make some ab`SbQV g]c` [O`YSbW\U R]ZZOà Other parcels in the auction included money, and result in some more building bV`]cUV 000 ]cb`SOQV STT]`ba a 185-acre agricultural parcel known as this is an auction permits pulled here in the next few O\R WT g]c _cOZWTg Ô`bWQWÔbS W\ Demmel Lake, 12 commercial lots most- years,” he said. ]c` >W\\OQ]Z e]`YSà¸ Q][^ U`]c^ ly along Interstate 25 and 103 residential from heaven.” “Hopefully, if everything goes lots in The Knolls, just south of through and things get closed on, it /\R bVOb¸a Xcab bVS PSUW\\W\U Wellington near the town’s new school, should spur some good things to happen Rice Elementary. Tommy Williams, auctioneer in Wellington.” ASS WT g]c [OYS bVS Tommy Williams, auctioneer, said Vernon said Zweygardt has left a lega- UÒRS Zweygardt was getting on in years and cy in Wellington as developer of a motel, 7T g]c` TW`[ Wa OZ`SORg b]^ RÒeS` simply wanted to “have less irons in the fast-food restaurant and a convenience fire” by reducing his property holdings. store along I-25 and several subdivisions. [OfW[WhS g]c` P]bb][ ZW\S Pg “I know you may have heard he had “He’s put more than $10 million in PSQ][W\U O 000 /QQ`SRWbSR to sell this property but that’s not true,” infrastructure into Wellington,” Vernon 0caW\Saa Williams told the crowd. “This is strictly said. a sale at the volunteer of the owner.” “I wish it would have gone better, but Vernon added that the development Larry Lorentzen, Wellington town you set a day to sell everything and you property sold at auction will enhance administrator, said Zweygardt started take your chances,” he said. and continue the legacy Zweygardt has picking up properties in and around Vernon would not comment on how left for the town. Wellington in 2001. Lorentzen said he much Zweygardt had hoped to receive at “(That land) is definitely Wellington’s thought the sale was economy-related. the auction. “I’m not saying it went bad, future, and that town has so much “I think it’s basically just the (eco- but as a real estate agent trying to do the potential,” he said. “With the amount of nomic) downturn,” he said. “He’s a best for my client it was somewhat dis- infrastructure Delmer Zweygardt put in developer who came in and developed a appointing,” he said. “Had I listed some that town, he placed it in a position to eg\Q]PPP]Ù couple subdivisions and then the down- of those properties at prices for more really grow when things turn around.” '% "" &#$"!% 24 | Northern Colorado Business Report www.ncbr.com | Dec. 17-23, 2010 COMMENTARY

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“Colorado, just like the United States, just like the world, is going through a PUBLISHER massive upheaval, a transformation of Jeff Nuttall ext. 201 our economy, similar to the industrial Direct: 232-3131 [email protected] revolution, where thousands of old jobs CONTROLLER Cindy Nosko ext. 221 that were there don’t work so well any- Direct: 232-3151 [email protected] more and aren’t as useful, and there are NEWS new jobs that people could barely imag- Editor Kate Hawthorne ext. 212 ine only a couple years before they Direct: 232-3142 [email protected] came.” Reporter That’s where Governor-elect John Steve Porter ext. 217 Hickenlooper will start when he takes Direct: 232-3147 [email protected] Copy Editor/Web Editor office next month. He talked with the Noah Guillaume ext. 222 Durango Herald about the challenges to Direct: 232-3152 [email protected] the state and to individuals in making Chief Researcher that transition, drawing on his own Ross Manley ext. 207 Direct: 232-3137 [email protected] career changes. For small business owners, MARKETING “It involved a great deal of loss, leav- Marketing Director ing behind to a certain extent who I was De Dahlgren ext. 202 — an identity I had spent years creating. Direct: 232-3132 [email protected] I think there are thousands of people in all I want for Christmas is … ADVERTISING Advertising Director Colorado and the country struggling Sandy Powell ext. 214 with that as well.” Direct: 232-3144 [email protected] Thousands is a good estimate. For many small business owners, the ily, who all need jobs; Senior Account Executive I Lindsay Gilliland ext. 203 University of Colorado economist holiday season is the most important They remain the primary provider Direct: 232-3133 [email protected]

Richard Wobbekind, says the state lost time of the year. In the business-to- of health-care coverage for employees Account Executive nearly 140,000 jobs in 2009 and 2010, consumer retail segments, fully 40 per- and their families, made easier this year Julie Constance ext. 218 and predicts a gain of only 10,000 in cent or more of a company’s revenues by tax credits in the Affordable Care Direct: 232-3148 [email protected] 2011. About 7,000 of those are expected may be produced between Act; Janet Hatfield ext. 215 Direct: 232-3145 [email protected] in the tech sector — engineers, comput- Thanksgiving and I They continue to pay taxes, help- PRODUCTION er systems designers, scientific research New Year’s Day. ing to support local community needs; Production Manager and development — less than half the Even in a I They order and sell more goods Bernie Simon ext. 210 Direct: 232-3140 [email protected] number the state added in 2007. That robust economy, from their suppliers and manufacturers, Art Director leaves 3,000 new jobs for the rest of us. which was the which helps keep the rest of us work- Chad Collins ext. 211 While the official unemployment case for most of ing; Direct: 232-3141 [email protected] rate hovers just below 10 percent the last decade, I They continue to be somewhere ADMINISTRATION I.T. Director nationally, when you include the dis- any downturn in we can go throughout the year when we Chris Sullivan ext. 206 couraged and the underemployed — holiday-related need a smile, a welcome hello, or just a Direct: 232-3136 [email protected] those who pick up what they can for as revenues for small place to get out of the cold, or in from Office Manager / Front Desk long as they can — the number of peo- businesses had the heat, while we make our purchases; Tiffanie Moore ext. 200 GUEST Direct: 232-3130 [email protected] ple who want to work but have no jobs significant conse- and CIRCULATION climbs to about 17 percent. quences for the COLUMN I They remain the glue that binds Circulation Manager Rhonda Doyle ext. 216 It’s time to accept that the go-go financial health of Dan Hannaher our communities together. Direct: 232-3146 [email protected] economy of the 1990s is gone, and, as the company going As the government agency focused CONTRIBUTING WRITERS & PHOTOGRAPHERS they say at Coors Field, it ain’t coming forward. Indeed, on helping small businesses “start, Jessica Centers, Dan Hannaher, Aaron Kahn, Michelle LeJeune, Terri Schlichenmeyer, Tracee back. It’s time to set aside partisan rhet- many business bankruptcies of small grow and succeed,” the U.S. Small Sioux, Kai Staats, Michael D. Wailes, Tommy oric, blaming long-term joblessness on retailers occur during the first few Business Administration provides a Winston, Joshua Zaffos unemployment benefits or attacking months of each year, typically as a wealth of programs and services to opposing views as unworthy of consid- result of less-than-hoped-for holiday give every small company a fighting eration, and begin to reason together. sales. chance to be successful. But, at the end When the America Speaks project While a business model that relies of the day, it takes all of us and all of brought 3,500 people together to calmly on significant consumer spending with- you to help turn that goal into a reali- and rationally discuss ways to cut the in a narrow window of time may be ty. federal deficit, an amazing thing hap- considered overly risky by some people, This holiday season, as our national pened. Not only could 90 percent agree small businesses using that model are economy begins to emerge from what on spending and revenue packages that merely trying to capitalize on our cycli- many have dubbed The Great would result in a $600 billion reduction cal buying tendencies that are naturally Recession, let’s all make a conscious by 2025 — two-thirds could support focused on the last six weeks of the effort to shop at the thousands of small more than $1 trillion — but partici- year. businesses that we want there for us the pants across the political spectrum When small firms successfully navi- other 11 months of the year. found they could accept a wide range of gate the six-week holiday season, several That’s all I want for Christmas. solutions. good things usually happen: We agree with Hickenlooper: “We I They’re around the rest of the year Dan Hannaher is the U.S. Small need to, as a state, begin thinking, ‘What to offer us many choices — just like Business Administration’s Regional are those new jobs going to look like?’” during the holidays; Administrator in Denver. He can be And we hope we are up to the task in I They continue to employ our reached at [email protected] or the new year. friends, neighbors and sometimes, fam- 303-844-0505. Dec. 17-23, 2010 | www.businessreportdaily.com Northern Colorado Business Report | 25

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR NCBR poll watch Will you scale back your holiday purchases this season?

majority, 50 percent-plus, they win! Yes Simpson, Bowles work to restore Next question: I am so excited about this possibility. 59% ‘fiscal sanity’ And as I see it, our city officials will have What kind of holiday party is your (Business Report Daily, Dec. 12, 2010) company having? to be more accountable, which is good A bit Where are the slaughtered cows? for all of us. Increasing the retirement age is not a Jill Sanford 26% Answer now at www.ncbr.com. Responses will sacred cow! Welfare, food stamps, feder- Fort Collins be accepted through Dec. 27. No ally subsidized housing, federal farm pay- These results reflect responses to the ments, extended unemployment bene- IRV unfortunately degenerates into 15% online poll at www.ncbr.com Nov. 15 - 29. fits, and SS payments to those who have ordinary Plurality Voting, because top- not paid into the system are sacred cows. ranking anyone but a frontrunner is Unrestrained illegal immigration needs more likely to help than hurt voters. We to come to an end. Start the deep cuts in know this because it has been used in E-470 board approves toll increase for 2011 Of tax revenues, government spending those programs and balance the budget? Australia’s House of Representatives (Business Report Daily, Nov. 16, 2010) and Herbert Hoover It is time to make the hard choices. Just since 1918, and in Ireland since 1938. Raising prices doesn’t necessarily (NCBR, Dec. 3, 2010) do it. There is no sanity in doing nothing. Here’s an attempt to explain this in lay- translate into more revenue. Pricing Holy Cow! The NCBR, which touts George Pickell man’s terms: www.electology.org/irv- people out of the market may in fact being a publication for Northern Greeley plurality. decrease revenue. They have effectively Colorado small business, has published A much simpler and better solution is priced me off the road since a few extra an editorial that is not only ill-founded Estes Park rodeo tops in the nation Approval Voting, which doesn’t have this minutes down improved 120th Ave is an but downright incorrect. Our national (Business Report Daily, Dec. 3, 2010) problem because it never hurts a voter to ok trade-off. debt is not primarily caused by When you take a great committee, fair- support candidates that voter prefers to Chris Smith decreased tax revenues due to a poor grounds staff, Powder River Rodeo pro- the frontrunners, e.g. if you prefer Green Fort Collins economy. It is because of out-of-control ductions who bring the best animal ath- over Democrat over Republican, and government spending. Assets purchased letes, and of course the very best cowboy you tactically vote for the Democrat, you Guess that means a new way to work. I with borrowed money absolutely does and cowgirl athletes, plus great local and can still vote for the Green with no neg- mean, think about it. It will now cost me not create value. national sponsors and wrap all this into ative consequences. $11.52/day to get to work! Guess it’s time This editorial has called to my atten- Estes Park, the most beautiful rodeo set- Scott Gessler, recently elected Sec of to look for a job elsewhere. Paying tion two serious problems. 1) it is a bad ting in the world it could be nothing other State of CO, is generally supportive of $2,995.20/year to a 17-mile stretch is crazy. thing that this man is teaching this than the very “best” rodeo in America. letting cities try Approval. Carrie Eno Marxist garbage to our young folks; 2) it Howell Wright Clay Shentrup Loveland is a bad thing that this business journal Estes Park San Francisco would entertain publishing the opinions Who are the board members? Are of someone who has no respect for small Ranked voting placed on Fort Collins ballot Groups plan to sue USFWS over Poudre they professionals? Can we see the budg- business, free enterprise and capitalism. et to understand why they needed to He thinks it’s OK for a government to (Business Report Daily, Dec. 8, 2010) River insect raise the tolls in the current economic I’m a fairly organized person — OK, take our money and do with it what (Business Report Daily, Dec. 1, 2010) conditions? With all the staff they must “they” see fit. It’s a known fact that once I’m a little OCD but it works for me. I’m sorry but these people are out of have laid off by shuttering the toll Each morning I make coffee, then sit in our money has been run through the control!!! This is the kind of nonsense booths, you would tend to believe they government it’s value is decreased. We bed and plan my day. Obviously, some that has shut down thousands of acres of are saving money. meetings and appointments can’t be the employers can create more jobs for land owned by farmers in California, George Pickell the buck than the government. The real rearranged, but other activities can be putting them out of business over some Greeley ordered by their importance. question here is,“Can small business sur- minuscule minnow or fart fly!!! Same as vive the burden of debt and the resulting So when I first heard about Ranked the wackos that are now trying to stop Learn about Smart Meter Fort Collins Voting, I was dumbfounded that it has tax implications this man preaches as development in the 100 year flood plane (Business Report Daily, Sept. 24, 2010) acceptable?” Shame on you, NCBR! taken this long to be implemented. But this in Fort Collins. April, Ranked Voting (choosing city candi- I do not want Smart Meters to be Marybeth David Austin installed. I’ve been involved with several Fort Collins dates in preference order) will be on the Fort Collins ballot for Fort Collins residents to consider. groups last year concerned about Here’s how it works: Palmer Flowers, Paul Wood Florist merge EMF’s!! Smart Meters are dangerous, Technology and the myth of enough free 1. Voters picking City Council and and I will not have them installed at my time (Business Report Daily, Nov. 23, 2010) home! Many cities and states are cur- Mayor, simply choose first, second and (NCBR, Oct. 23, 2010) third choice in order of preference. Congratulations to both. Good for rently fighting these meters! New Mexico you for not giving up. defeated these just recently!!! Besides the It brings me to recall what Heidegger 2. If one candidate receives a majority discussed not only in “Being and Time”, (50 percent-plus) of votes, they win! Phyllis Gray privacy issues, these will be a huge health Fort Collins concern!! If I had a child attending CSU, but also “What is Called Thinking” and 3. If there is no clear winner (say the “The Question Concerning Technology vote is divided like: 42 percent, 41 per- I would not allow them to attend school Two great businesses, two great own- there if these were installed! Do not and other Essays.” Embedded in the cent, 17 percent), the lowest vote getter mountain of analytical thought which (17 percent) is removed. That candi- ers. Can’t go wrong. Congratulations to allow these to be installed!!! both Spiro and Judy. Virginia Farver Heidegger brought to review this prob- date’s votes will be distributed between lem your brief article presents a clearly the two frontrunners based on who their Victoria Loran Fort Collins Fort Collins direct approach anyone can implement. supporters ranked second. Derick 4. As soon as one candidate has the New York City

Make sense for the city GREEN BUILDING, from 5 gested amendments would roughly ically finance new electricity infrastruc- James Mitchell, a broker with The increase the construction costs of a new ture through rates and taxes. A shift in Group Inc. Real Estate and the chair of home, listed for $230,000, by 1 percent city spending may also enable utilities water heaters and fireplaces in new the Fort Collins Board of Realtors to 2 percent. Commercial costs would staff to devote more resources to educa- homes for health and safety. Sustainability Committee, served on the rise 1 percent to 4 percent, depending tion and enforcement on green-building Other more controversial measures advisory group for residential building. on building size. practices and further develop the pro- have been averted for now. Boulder He said the code amendments make The proposed rules’ benefits, on the gram. County’s green-building program man- sense for the city. By initially focusing other hand, are annual utility-bill sav- Among real-estate brokers who dates efficiency requirements based on on energy savings, the proposed rules ings of up to 7 percent for new, green- already specialize in green-built spaces, house size, while other cities have set should help develop support for the built houses, and up to 25 percent utili- Mitchell said that the numbers only rep- rules that require new construction to principles of green building and sway ty savings for new commercial build- resent part of the payoff for residents meet LEED (Leadership in Energy and how people think about the costs and ings. The improvements would also and tenants. Environmental Design) criteria. City benefits. include 5 percent to 10 percent reduc- “Consumers’ favorite part about staff and the advisory committees aren’t “No matter what statistic you look at, tions in energy and water use and car- green-built homes is not the lower ener- pushing for either, instead presenting there is an increased cost to building bon emissions of homes, and double or gy bills,” Mitchell said. “It’s having a packages that combine regulatory tools green,” Mitchell said. But the higher up- triple those savings for commercial comfortable environment and a healthy with market-based incentives that devel- front expenses should be more than off- spaces, providing a local and global place to live in.” opers can pursue voluntarily. set by later reductions to utility bills and environmental benefit. Fort Collins Utilities is prepared to “Some people thought we didn’t push decreased needs for maintenance and The reduced peak and overall implement the new rules by April, with far enough,” Phelan said. “But others renovation. demands on city utilities should also pay council slated to vote on the final would like to see a voluntary approach.” Based on city staff analysis, the sug- off for consumers and citizens who typ- changes in March. 26 | Northern Colorado Business Report www.ncbr.com | Dec. 17-23, 2010

DUCKDUCK, from 3 know that it’s happening.” CLEVER BUSINESS, from 9 As DuckDuck has grown in popularity, users are doing more than just find- unique — nature of operating activity, “Remember, they wanted.” ing a bar- ownership makeup, and risk tolerance. What the businesses wanted was an gain burg- “Thus, selecting the appropriate managing growth effective and affordable means to com- er. Some structure often times requires outside municate with their customers. Vincent are plan- assistance, primarily to ensure proper must be handled and Pawliczek delivered in the form of ning entire setup and to coordinate tax strategies, an application that ranks bargains based n i g h t s as one formation certainly does not fit on the customers’ proximity to the busi- using the all,” he added. just as carefully as ness. service. According to Goudy, for most small “There are restaurants running spe- “We’ve business owners the legal structure when you are cials, but without DuckDuck, you found this choice is between a Limited Liability wouldn’t know unless you saw their happening Company and a for-profit Corporation. lacking sales.” sandwich boards or individual market- particular- Both provide relatively similar liability ing,” Vincent said. “Now you can see ly in the protection but the initial and subse- that, within two blocks, there are eight c o l l e g e quent owner-documented action item deals going on right now.” m a r k e t ,” requirements vary greatly. V i n c e n t There are four basic tax structures that we had to change our website Push notifications said. “A small group of women at CU most small business owners consider: address, e-mail, letterhead and other These push notifications, proposed told me that they recently used the app I Sole Proprietorship collateral materials, and during that by the business, are published between to choose bars for that evening based on I Partnership process we found other areas we could four and 21 times per month. deals from DuckDuck.” I S Corporation enhance, too. Depending on the subscription level, I C Corporation. When we set out to form a company the app can cost the business anywhere Data collection Which one to utilize is in part deter- or acquire an existing firm we many from $49 to $349 per month. DuckDuck Deal also collects market mined by legal structure but principally times get caught up with the day-to-day For that fee, merchants are buying data that it shares with the merchants, selected as a result of tax advantages operation of the business and forget the opportunity to publish a bargain free of charge. By helping businesses to envisioned for the stated nature of that as the business changes so must the tailored for their needs. By including a generate and analyze data, Vincent said operations (where, how and to whom legal entity. Do not wait until you have countdown clock on each deal, busi- DuckDuck is saving them hundreds, if goods and/or services are sold) and a situation where your current setup nesses are able to drive traffic during not thousands, of dollars over conven- ownership makeup (number of owners may cost a considerable amount of tax slow periods, while not disrupting tional advertising. and if any of these owners are related). expense or liability to the firm. organic traffic at busy times. “We believe that it is effectively their Anticipate new orders, new customers, “DuckDuck has allowed us to change data and they can use it to optimize their Outside audit help new product launches, new geographic the way we run specials and how we get market,” Vincent said. “From our per- When conducting your own audit of areas of revenue, and changes in hiring the word out to customers,” Helm said. spective, the business will then want to your legal entity it may be a good idea that all may affect the appropriate legal “It is such a real-time process that we use the app more, so it works out for to consult with an outside CPA firm entity to achieve the best tax advantages now have the ability to run specials or both parties.” and legal counsel, too. Even if you have while maintaining the least liability. deals spur the moment.” While the app is still relatively young, in-house legal and accounting it is well When firms decide to widen their About 35 percent of participating future plans are already in the works. worth the expense to receive an unbi- market area to a regional or global businesses log in to their account and Vincent said an incentive program that ased opinion from an outside source. If basis, it requires changes to many oper- launch a deal when they see fit. The rewards end users with points if they you do this regularly, say once a year, it ating procedures, and you should take other 65 percent elect to participate in share deals with their friends is in devel- will also keep your inside staff alert and those changes into account before you the Autopilot Program, where their opment. understanding completely why this proceed. Remember, managing growth deals are managed entirely by “If the end users capture a deal, use a entity was established. must be handled just as carefully as DuckDuck. deal, or push deals to their friends over Recently, my own business went when you are lacking sales. If you do “If we notice the merchants haven’t Facebook or Twitter, they will collect through an audit of our entity, which not have the best structure when grow- been running deals, we’ll ask them what points,” Vincent said. “Those points will was an LLC. Upon asking ourselves the ing and while revenue is increasing, all they want to do and when they want to lead to gift certificates to our partners or questions above we decided to establish the profit could be eaten up in taxes do it,”Vincent said. “Then we’ll offer to prizes.” an S-Corp and close the LLC. Why? and lawsuits. take over.” To partner with new merchants and This new entity will provide more Don’t work so hard that you forget In addition to the smart phone app, attract a wider user base, expansion into legal protection with the corporate shell who you are. Vincent said a significant amount of midwest college towns is DuckDuck and provide more tax incentives for our traffic is driven by the DuckDuck Deal Deal’s next move. type of business. These changes were Tommy Winston is CEO of Winston website, Twitter feed and Facebook page “Our best strategy is to stay where the not necessary until now. The company Ventures in Wellington, which consoli- as well as e-mails. young people are,” Vincent said. “We recently made other changes that affect- dates industries through acquisition, “The Daily Deal e-mail is where we have been able to establish really positive ed our legal entity and the legislative recruits and hires, and helps the unem- pull out one of the best deals that’s relationships with independent busi- changes in Washington encouraged us ployed return to rewarding careers. He going on that day,”Vincent said.“Unlike nesses in college towns because we to look for more protection. can be contacted at www.winstonven- a Groupon, though, we don’t make you understand them and they understand One of the hidden benefits to us was turesinc.com . buy it when you see it; we just let you what our product can do.”

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Airpark Village EAST VINE DRIVE N Six years after Denver developer Lloyd Goff announced plans to turn Fort Collins Downtown Airport into a 150-acre mixed-use community, lender Mile High

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SOURCE: BUSINESS REPORT RESEARCH economy. I’m not sure the ultimate AIRPARK, from 1 owner of the property will impact what happens there over the long term one the specifics of the litigation. way or the other. We haven’t seen it as a According to the filing in Larimer major economic asset other than in County, borrower Airpark Village LLC terms of a place for light industrial man- has until March 1 to cure the loan default ufacturing uses to site. before the property is sold on March 2. “We had initial conversations with Optimistic, Goff said that deadline the property owner before my time, and gives him several months to secure our contact diminished significantly just financing. He said he is in talks with two as he was trying to move the project for- potential investors, one of whom he ward,” he added. “We’ve never done a hopes to go to contract with this month. formal estimate of the economic impact, “We’ve got a lot of people looking at but something closer to the status quo is it. It’s hard to say what’s going to hap- the way we are looking at it from an eco- pen,” Goff said. “If we had a decent mar- nomic impact standpoint at this time.” ChoiceBusiness Checking ket then we wouldn’t be having any Birks said there are a number of other problems. We wouldn’t have problems areas in the city that can respond to The Perfect FREE Choice for Business Banking with the bank. The essence of human research and development opportunities, adventure is uncertainty.” and the airpark is not an area they earnest- ly track as an economic development asset. Bank of Choice wants to be your hometown choice for Competing visions “Ultimately that area and parts of the best in financial services. Our ChoiceBusiness Goff first acquired an option on the South College, south of Harmony, and Checking account offers a wide variety of options to help property, which is part of the city’s East parts of North College are the strongest you, and your business, reach your financial goals. Mulberry Corridor, in 2004. The airport places for small scale light industrial uses closed in 2006, and there were concerns in the community and there are other • No monthly service charge for less than 500 items that adjacent businesses, primarily avia- opportunities for larger new construc- (debits, credits and/or deposited items) posting to your tion-related, would leave with it. Goff, tion and new employment,” Birks said. though, said he did not have a problem “If companies are looking for affordable account* filling existing space after purchasing the or existing facilities, those are the kind of • Minimum to open $100 – no minimum balance property that year, bringing in about 30 places we think of as opportunities con- new tenants. sistent with our overall vision.” necessary to avoid service charge “We’re full,” he said. “We don’t have Fort Collins Zoning Administrator • FREE ChoiceOnline Banking anything left to rent. The hangars are all Peter Barnes said the city annexed the rented out.” Airpark Village property and zoned it as • FREE Bank of Choice Online Bill Pay Those tenants include some enter- an E (Employment) zone, which has a tainment, computer and storage busi- wide variety of uses, at the request of nesses, along with driver training for Goff. The city also approved Goff’s Stop by one of our many Northern Colorado various groups like law enforcement and Overall Development Plan in 2008, but truck drivers. Goff has yet to submit a specific devel- locations today to visit with a ChoiceBanker or Goff’s vision for the property, howev- opment plan for anything. check us out online at BankofChoiceOnline.com er, looks very different. “The first project we want to do is an No flights allowed energy tech institute, a brain trust that One use that is not allowed in an E would link members with a conference zone is an airport, and Goff has for years center that sits on top of five labs and been involved in litigation with pilots would allow us to get a national audi- who want to continue using the airport’s ence,” he said. “We would work on ener- runway. That’s because an airport can be gy research and development. The main allowed in an E zone as a grandfathered, theme of the campus, of the develop- nonconforming use forever as long as Evans / 3635 23rd Avenue ment project, is a research and develop- the use was not abandoned for 12 con- ment campus.” secutive months. After the FAA closed Fort Collins – Drake / 1044 West Drake Road Goff wants to change the name of the the airport in 2006 and 12 months Fort Collins – Boardwalk / 4532 Boardwalk Drive futuristic development, eventually, to passed, the city determined the property Energy Park One. He said the first build- was not an airport anymore and thus Greeley – 10th / 3780 West 10th Street ing he envisions for the park can co-exist lost its nonconforming status. However, Greeley – 20th / 7251 West 20th Street, Building A with the hangars, but the second build- some pilots continued to use the runway Platteville / 370 Justin Avenue ing — still years away — would have to for occasional takeoffs and landings replace them. without notifying the FAA and argued Windsor / 1270 Automation Drive Josh Birks, economic adviser for the that such use meant the airport had not city of Fort Collins, while not opposed to in fact been abandoned. Also located in: Arvada / Aurora / Conifer / Denver / Elizabeth Goff’s plans, sees the Airpark Village area At Goff’s request, the city will look at Englewood / Kiowa / Parker more as an opportunity for light manu- the issue again to determine whether or facturing and other industrial uses. He not flying is allowed at the old airport. does not think its foreclosure would have “We expect to get the answer that BankofChoiceOnline.com much of an economic impact on the city. zoning doesn’t allow it and the FAA said Member FDIC “We have a need for reasonably it was shut down properly,” Goff said. (970) 373-3512 affordable space for those kinds of uses,” He categorizes the zoning dispute as a said Birks, who joined the city in March minor annoyance compared to the *Items more than 500 per month will be charged at 30¢ per item. 2009. “We see that area as an opportuni- much larger headache of the market col- ty to continue to enhance that part of the lapse. Presented by Northern Colorado Business Report Don’t miss this in-demand event. Presented by Northern Colorado Business Report Don’t miss this in-demand event.