Downtown Denver below the Front Range, with the gold dome of the State Capitol at lower left. The Competitiveness Council's roadmap, delivered to the governor on Wednesday, is aimed at the employers who decide whether to build in places like this or in a competing state.
The 27-member council formed in July delivered its recommendations on Wednesday, built around faster permitting, tax and housing changes, workforce work and site readiness. The report goes to both candidates for governor and to the legislature.
The aerospace contractor will expand its Space division at existing facilities in Douglas and Jefferson counties over four years, adding up to 450 jobs and 190,000 square feet in Douglas County alone.
Proposition 136 would lock in the flat rate while Amendment 87 would create six brackets and direct new revenue to schools, health care and child care. If both pass, the bigger vote total wins.
Dandelion Energy and Lennar have finished nearly 100 geothermal homes at Littleton's Ken Caryl Ranch, the first wave of a 2025 partnership aiming for more than 1,500 Colorado homes over two years, with Xcel rebates of about $25,000 per home.
The four recommendations total $5.385 million: a $3.25 million loan for 144 apartments in Grand Junction, up to $1.2 million to retire the mortgage on Fort Collins supportive housing, and construction grants in Ouray and Leadville. The State Housing Board takes them up Oct. 6.
