Category: Fort Collins
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Best Places to Live: Fort Collins #2, Loveland #33, Longmont #50
CNNMoney ranked three Colorado cities in the top 50 places to live for 2008. #2 Fort Collins#33 Loveland#50 Longmont See more at CNNMoney.
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Fort Collins 2009 Best Places to Thrive
Best Boomer Towns (www.bestboomertowns.com) has named Fort Collins to its list of Best Places to Thrive in 2009. Focused on the Baby Boomer generation, those born between 1946 and 1964, this website placed Fort Collins in the top 21. Fort Collins was the only city from Colorado represented in the list. Research is comprised from…
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Landlords: 25 months to register their rental units with city
From the Coloradoan Fort Collins City Council and city staff are taking the right approach in emphasizing safety for renters over punishment of property owners. Tuesday, City Council voted 6-0, with Council member Ben Manvel absent, to approve an ordinance that would allow property owners time to bring their buildings into compliance with city standards…
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March 2009 Unemployment Numbers
6.4% – Fort Collins/Loveland – (up from 6.2% in February)7.5% – State of Colorado8.5% – United States The Northern Colorado region show slowing in the growth of unemployment and is still well below the State and National rates.
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Fort Collins/Loveland and Denver Ranked As Housing Markets To Recover First
Boyce Thompson has posted an interesting blog article on Builder Magazine Online. Five leading housing analysts were asked which five markets will recover first. The metro Denver area and the Fort Collins/Loveland area were each in the top five picks by two analysts. Interestingly, both analysts were based in California. Colorado was omitted from the…
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Fort Collins #2 on Forbes List
Fort Collins makes the number 2 spot on Forbes best places for business. And Colorado was one of the dominant states represented on the list. Here is how they stack up: Forbes’ Top 10 Forbes.com’s top 10 metro areas for business and careers: 1. Raleigh, N.C.2. Fort Collins, CO3. Durham, N.C.4. Fayetteville, Ark.5. Lincoln, Neb.6.…
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Fort Collins Sales & Use Tax Down in February
According to a report released by the City of Fort Collins financial services sales tax division, February total sales and use tax of $5,592,989 is 7.3 percent below February 2008. The city is behind total collections, based on combined sales and use tax trends, by $322,457. The sales and use tax collections, sales tax declined…
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Fort Collins #7 for Quality of Life
The latest Quality of Life survey performed by bizjournals.com places Fort Collins in the number 7 spot for midsized cities. You can read more at: Coloradoan
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Coloradoan moving printing and cutting 48 jobs
Fort Collins’ newspaper, Coloradoan, has moved its printing operations to the Denver Newspaper Agency facilities in Denver. With this move the publication will let go of 48 employees.You can read more at NCBR
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Northern Colorado Unemployment Better than State and Country
While the news is not all “blue sky”, the unemployment rate in Northern Colorado is still relatively low considering numbers in the state and especially the country. The latest report from the Department of Labor shows the following rates across Colorado: Pueblo: 7.8 percent Colorado Springs: 7.7 percent Denver/Aurora/Broomfield: 6.9 percent Fort Collins/Loveland: 5.6 percent…