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PROFILE
ONLINE RESOURCES
The Latino Chamber of Commerce of Boulder
County
www.latinochamberco.org
Carla Colin, president
carla@latinochamberco.org
Longmont Area Chamber of Commerce
www.longmontchamber.org
Scott Cook, CEO
scook@longmontchamber.org
Longmont Downtown Development Authority
www.downtownlongmont.com
Kimberlee McKee, executive director
kimberlee.mckee@longmontcolorado.gov
Longmont Economic Development Partnership
www.longmont.org
Kelly Sage, president & CEO
kelly@longmont.org
SOURCE: LONGMONT PLANNING DOCUMENTS
An artist’s rendering of Hotel Longmont.
City of Longmont
www.longmontcolorado.gov
Joan Peck, mayor
Joan.peck@longmontcolorado.gov
Harold Dominguez, city manager
harold.dominguez@longmontcolorado.gov
LONGMONT
Tech-rich BoCo city close to everything
LONGMONT — Residents of Longmont have a life expectancy of
82.6 years, higher than the state average of 80. Longmonters don’t waste
much of those years on commuting; the city is within 45 minutes’ drive of
downtown Denver, Denver International Airport and a handful of major
universities as well as mountain playgrounds such as Estes Park and Rocky
Mountain National Park. The ski slopes at Eldora are just an hour away.
Keeping Longmonters healthy are Longs Peak and Longmont United
hospitals. UCHealth opened Longs Peak in 2017 at the city’s eastern gateway, then added a four-story outpatient facility just east of the hospital. It’s
completing another three-story expansion and renovation this summer as
well as adding a helipad. Meanwhile, Longmont United, part of the CommonSpirit family, remains vibrant with its own full range of top-ranked
medical care on the city’s northwest side, and opened an expanded cancer
treatment center this spring.
Once home to an economy dominated by agriculture, Longmont now
makes a global impact with cutting-edge technology. With its NextLight
municipal broadband service ranked among the nation’s fastest for offering
1-gigabyte speeds for businesses and residents, Longmont has become one
of the nation’s main hubs for computer and data storage.
Hard-drive makers have a significant presence in Longmont, along
with more than 20 other information-technology hardware companies.
Longmont also has several industry clusters with employment exceeding
500, including software, biotechnology, business services, semiconductors
and food processing.
Tech companies, especially startups, favor Longmont for its educated
workforce, economic incentives, and lower real estate prices and electric
rates.
A decision in 2016 by the Longmont Area Economic Council to change
the last word in its name to “Partnership” symbolizes the city’s more comprehensive, collaborative strategy for luring business and including more
segments of the populace in the benefits of growth.
The nonprofit Longmont Entrepreneurship for All launched EparaTodos,
which translates to EforAll in English. EforAll is a twice-a-year accelerator
program and pitch contest replicated with Spanish-speaking mentors.
Commercial and residential real estate prices can be less than in nearby
Boulder, allowing businesses and families to live and work affordably in
Longmont.
Longmont provides plenty of retail options, including downtown
Main Street shopping and big-box stores on the city’s edges. A five-story
boutique hotel will open soon at the corner of Kimbark Street and Third
Avenue as the transit-oriented First and Main development expands into
surrounding blocks, and the vibrant Parkway Food Hall opened in a space
that had housed Lucky’s and then Alfalfa’s grocery stores.
The city has its own recreation center, live theaters, one private and
three public golf courses, and an outdoor sports complex at Sandstone.
Front Range Community College’s Boulder County campus launched
a Center for Integrated Manufacturing, marking significant advancements
and achievements since its inception six years ago.
