John Rebchook is a former Rocky Mountain News reporter with more than 30 years of experience in writing and communications... Nine national site selection consultants will converge upon Metro Denver for the Metro Denver Economic Development Corp.’s that begins today and end on Friday.
The Conference is one of the Metro Denver EDC’s most effective strategies for marketing metro Denver’s business attributes to site selectors and corporate real estate professionals, key decision makers in corporate relocations and expansions that bring new jobs to our region.
Activities on the site selector’s agenda include an economic briefing by the Metro Denver EDC’s Executive Vice President Tom Clark, and an industry panel discussion with executives from Amgen, United Launch Alliance, Siemens R&D, and Charles Schwab.
The consultants will also tour Metro Denver and Northern Colorado by helicopter, visit the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, attend a Colorado Rockies Baseball game, and tour Lockheed Martin Space Systems, DigitalGlobe, the Fitzsimons Life Science District, and the Anschutz Medical Campus. On Thursday evening, they will have dinner with the region’s top business leaders at the Denver Art Museum.
“Many of our major company relocations and expansions have come through our relationships with national site selection consultants,” explains Holli Baumunk, vice president of economic development for the Metro Denver EDC. “With all of the exciting news in our top industries-clean energy in particular-there’s no better time to acquaint them with significant advantages of doing business in our region.”
The business community will participate in the Conference’s final event, a sold-out breakfast and panel discussion on Friday, at the Denver Marriott City Center. The site selectors will share their opinions on:
Strategies to be successful in recruiting new jobs and capital investment.
State of corporate expansion activity in light of the down economy.
Metro Denver’s position for corporate expansion and relocation among the nation’s top metro areas.
The Metro Denver EDC’s economic development partners will serve as hosts to the visiting consultants.
