Welcome to Denver, Colorado. A.K.A "The Mile-High City"

Welcome to Denver, Colorado. A.K.A "The Mile-High City"

Denver was given that name because it is exactly 5,280 feet from sea level. The city has beautiful scenery with it's lush green landscape and is definitely a place worth visiting. Denver is known to have four distinct seasons and people flock here from all over the world to see the Rocky Mountains that surround it to the east. Colorado also has a great skiing and snowboarding city by the name of Aspen that was mentioned in Dumb and Dumber, but Denver also is a very impressive geographical area.
Here are some interesting did you know facts: Denver, lays claim to the invention of the cheeseburger....Colfax Avenue in Denver is the longest continuous street in America.......The 13th step of the capital building is exactly 5,280 ft from sea level.

(http://www.50states.com/facts/colorado.htm)

Friday, February 18, 2011

The North American Manufacturing Core

-For all you green people out there, Denver has "the largest solar inverter production facility in the United States and SMA’s first manufacturing plant outside of Germany." (Denvergov.org)  The popular luggage that goes by the name of Samsonite was started in Denver, but has recently moved.  Other companies that were started in Denver were the chocolate company Russell Stovers and is the home to the headquarters of one of the largest gold producing companies named the Newmont Mining Corporation.  As mentioned earlier, mining is a huge part of Denver's economy due to its location near the Rocky Mountains.  The main economies in Colorado according to the economic development corporation are aerospace, aviation, bioscience, broadcasting and telecommunications, energy, financial services and software
-The book focuses on the shift of the Industrial Revolution and Denver faced a huge boom during this era because of mining.  People were building makeshift homes in order to become part of the booming mining business here that still exist today.  The South Platte River with its constant flow of  also made it possible for the this city to thrive.  The train station seen below was important in the shipping of goods to Denver in industrial times, but faces lower usage in modern day times.
-As mentioned in one of the slides, Denver Colorado claims to have 300 days of sunshine a year.  This is good for business and for city growth because people flock to cities with tons of sunlight as seen in California.
-If interested in the university system, the main schools are the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State College of Denver and the Front Range Community College that provide the city with a well educated population.

References
http://www.metrodenver.org/industries-companies/industries
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