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Brainy city prepares for Sundance closeup
BOULDER — When the U.S. Department of Commerce in 2023 dubbed Colorado an official “TechHub” for the advancement of quantum technologies, it helped fuel a boom in business and research in Boulder. And yet the biggest news this year for the scenic city at the foot of the Flatirons came from the entertainment industry. Leaders…
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Boulder Chamber
John Tayer, president & CEO, [email protected]
Boulder Chamber Economic Council
www.bouldereconomiccouncil.org
Joseph Hovancak, executive director, [email protected]
City of Boulder
Aaron Brockett, mayor, [email protected]
Nuria Rivera-Vandermyde, city manager, [email protected]
Jennifer Pinsonneault, senior program manager, Economic Vitality, [email protected]
LATEST REGIONAL NEWS
- Honorees have been announced for the 2026 class of Women Who Light the Community, a joint project…
- Three Boulder-based business leaders have been appointed to the executive committee of a new…
- Two Boulder organizations — the University of Colorado and quantum firm Infleqtion Inc. — have…
- A partnership between the City of Boulder’s Office of Arts and Culture and the Small Business…
- Bridge House, a Boulder-based nonprofit organization that provides a number of services to homeless…
- The roughly 23,000-square-foot, 12-year-old flex industrial space at 6201 Spine Road in Boulder’s…
- Approximately 2,000 volunteers are being recruited by the Sundance Film Festival to help run the…
- Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art has been awarded a $1.5 million grant it will use to build a new…
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