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 […]
Local high school students constructing house as part of new class
One local high school is giving students a new opportunity, not only to give back to their community, but to start a career before they even graduate. Read full article here.
Blue-collar jobs may help millions of unemployed Americans get back to work
“One of the benefits in the construction industry, right now, is it there is a shortage,” said Ware. “So, supply and demand dictate that all the trades are paying as much as possible to attract the talent.” Read full article here.
Blue-Collar Jobs Boom as Covid-19 Boosts Housing, E-Commerce Demand
Residential construction, package delivery and warehousing jobs exceed pre-pandemic levels, and some companies can’t find enough workers. Read full article here.