Weld County

BAE Systems Inc. Space & Mission Systems has acquired the Danfoss Power Solutions (US) Co. facility in Weld County, with plans to add hundreds of jobs.

The owner of the industrial park adjacent to a proposed massive data center has sued the Weld County commissioners, alleging that they manipulated county rules, ignored construction violations and improperly assisted the developer in securing approval for the project.

Weld County commissioners approved the project that a citizens' group faults over energy, water and other potential impacts.

The proposed facility could become the biggest data center in Colorado.

Weld County has rejected a City of Greeley request to join the Catalyst project in west Greeley.

Activists plan to continue fighting the opening of a new immigration detention hub.

The vote clears the way for Erie to sell about 182 acres of its underground mineral rights to SM Energy, an oil and gas company pursuing the Draco Pad project, which will drill horizontal wells underneath homes in Erie.

Weld County commissioner Scott James said last month bringing data centers to his region would mean more tax dollars, wider roads and maybe even more investments into buildings just like the massive ballroom he was speaking in at Aims Community College in Greeley.

The next few months should be the beginning of a downtown demolition zone as several buildings are razed to morph into a shiny, new version of a county judicial center that will jumpstart the planned downtown civic campus.

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.