Tagged: Northern Colorado Business Report (NCBR)

A new federal tax on medical-device makers doesn’t go into effect until 2013 but local companies in the Boulder Valley are already coming up with ways to cope with the increase.

One day after announcing that it was cutting 8% of its workforce or some 27,000 positions, there’s still no word as to what the impact might be at the Hewlett Packard campus in Fort Collins. In fact, it’s not very well-know just how many people HP employs in Fort Collins. Estimates vary.

One of Northern Colorado’s better-known companies has announced plans to leave the area by the end of the year. Despite multiple efforts to keep Eldon James from moving, the loss is being viewed as a black eye to economic-development efforts in the region.

Fort Collins residents will see the MAX Bus Rapid Transit project begin to take shape along Mason Street over the summer. KUNC’s Brian Larson spoke with Northern Colorado Business Report publisher Jeff Nuttall about the project and its future impacts along the Mason Corridor.