Inflation in Colorado: July 2022 Update | Common Sense Institute
Get the latest data on inflation in Colorado from our partners at the Common Sense Institute. In June and July, the average Colorado household spent $1,642 more due to inflation—an average of $821 per month. read more
The Gazette | Opinion | 5 min PERSPECTIVE: Moving beyond ‘college for all’
About a generation ago, society suddenly decided that going to college and getting at least a bachelor’s degree in a liberal arts field was the best course of action for one’s life, and that everyone should do it. So began a nonstop barrage from every direction into the minds of young students that college is […]
Denver Post | News | 5 Min
Denver council OKs $41M program to incentivise more sustainable buildings Gas heating for big commercial, apartment and condo buildings responsible for half of city’s greenhouse gas emissions, climate action office says… Read More
Metro Denver EDC | July 2022 | 3 Min
Monthly Economic Indicators Below you will find Metro Denver EDC’s Monthly Economic Indicators for July. Three quick insights: The unemployment rate in Metro Denver fell 0.1 percentage points to 3% in May, marking the lowest rate since before the onset of the pandemic when unemployment was 2.8% in February 2020. Nationally, the unemployment rate ticked […]
State Performance Measurements Task Force
The Colorado Energy Office (CEO) has been working with the State’s Building Performance Standards (BPS) Task Force over the last several months on developing recommendations for the State’s Building Performance Standard. To learn more about the process and the Task Force, please visit the CEO website NAOIP and BOMA joined forces on the State-Wide Building Performance Measurements […]
Washington Policy Update
Washington Policy Update MCAA offers a capsule digest of some key public policy, legislative, and regulatory developments in Washington, D.C., that will influence the MCAA policy agenda in the near and intermediate terms. Read More
Common Sense Institute’s Free Enterprise Summit
In case you missed it – Dave Davia joined a panel of some of Colorado’s top business leaders at the Common Sense Institute’s first-annual Free Enterprise Summit on December 14th. Alongside JJ Ament with the Denver Chamber; Loren Furman with the Colorado Chamber; Debbie Brown with the Colorado Business Roundtable; and Tom Brooke with Denver […]
Monthly Economic Indicators
This month’s Metro Denver EDC shows… The lowest unemployment rate for Metro Denver is now at 5.4%. One of the lowest rates record since March 2020. Almost 6.4 Million airline passengers passed through Denver International Airport in July, the highest level since August 2019. The S&P/Case-Schiller Home Price Index posted record-breaking gains for the fourth […]
From In-N-Out to downtown hotels; Colorado Springs commercial construction not slowing down
Colorado Springs’ commercial building boom, which barreled through the COVID-19 pandemic with relatively few disruptions, shows no signs of a slowdown. Read full article here.
What’s Working: Colorado’s construction industry is short on workers as housing prices skyrocket
Residential construction is going gangbusters (who hasn’t noticed the escalating housing prices, or even rising lumber prices). But the industry has struggled to fill jobs for years. Even when the U.S. unemployment rate was 3.6% in July 2019, there were 350,000 openings in the construction sector, which was not much higher than a year later, when there were 325,000 openings even as […]