Christopher Wood, BizWest
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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Weld County has rejected a City of Greeley request to join the Catalyst project in west Greeley. -
Johnstown, CO now ranks #10 nationwide for population growth. -
New U.S. Census Bureau estimates show that Weld County ranks as Colorado’s fastest-growing large county, propelling it past Larimer County in population for the first time and reinforcing a regional shift that is redefining the Front Range. -
Workers at JBS USA’s meatpacking plant took to the picket line Monday, with union employees braving temperatures in the teens in the first such strike at a U.S. meatpacking plant in decades. -
After a successful protest of an earlier petition effort related to the $1.1 billion Cascadia development in west Greeley, four Greeley residents Friday filed another protest, this one against a petition that on Wednesday was ruled “initially insufficient” by the city clerk. -
Colorado will lose $550 million in funding to research climate change, part of $7.56 billion in cuts announced Thursday by the U.S. Department of Energy, with the largest reduction at Colorado State University. -
Less than two hours after backers of the planned Cascadia and Catalyst project in west Greeley celebrated a groundbreaking for infrastructure for the project, opponents announced another petition drive to halt the development. -
A Weld District Court judge has granted the Town of Firestone’s request for a temporary restraining order that prevents the Central Weld County Water District from cutting off water service to the town. -
Greeley will not move forward with the purchase of the JBS USA headquarters building in the Promontory business park, with the city focusing instead on funding of a new civic campus downtown.
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Not that long ago, travelers to Erie encountered dirt streets, few amenities and a sparse population. Today, the town’s location — straddling Boulder and Weld counties — has brought new retail, restaurants, employers and residents — enough of the latter to rank this once-sleepy town as the No. 15 fastest-growing city in the nation.
