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Old 01-14-2018, 11:04 AM
 
Location: Colorado Springs
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Cities live and die by the number of jobs they can create or attract and the more jobs a city has the more it grows among other things. So I would like to ask other residents of Colorado Springs what are some things the city could do to encourage more growth and high paying jobs. Personally I would like the city to invest in mass transit and infrastructure with these small things large technology companies may be interested in relocating and high paying jobs would have ripple effects all across the city. However I would like some other perspectives on the matter.

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Old 01-14-2018, 11:30 AM
 
Location: Seattle area
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I wouldn't want to live in a city like that pictured. Jobs are certainly important, but one of the reasons I'm planning to move to COS is because it's not a high-paying job center, hence has cheaper houses (including as measured by a factor of wage), less traffic, less hectic, etc. Mass transit and congestion go hand-in-hand. A strong job market tends to ruin a city, IMO. I think COS is currently in the sweet spot for standard of living. Better to desire the highest standard of living than the highest wage.
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Old 01-14-2018, 12:05 PM
 
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I think protecting and highlighting our natural beauty and resources are essential for the long-term appeal of this area. The transit I agree would be helpful.
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Old 01-14-2018, 01:19 PM
 
Location: Colorado Springs
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I think protecting and highlighting our natural beauty and resources are essential for the long-term appeal of this area. The transit I agree would be helpful.
I was just in the stratton open space this morning I agree the cities parks are essential and should be preserved. I would like the other parts of the city to become more urban however.
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Old 01-14-2018, 01:24 PM
 
Location: Concord, CA
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I'd prefer we establish a green belt around the city and stop the sprawl. Copy Boulder.

But with the developers owning city hall, that will never happen.
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Old 01-14-2018, 01:51 PM
 
Location: Colorado Springs
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I'd prefer we establish a green belt around the city and stop the sprawl. Copy Boulder.

But with the developers owning city hall, that will never happen.
Developers could still make money with a Boulder style boundary just build up. They aren't thinking big!
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Old 01-14-2018, 07:43 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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I’ve lived in several areas that were very successful at attracting companies and jobs, and I left every one of them because they became too crowded and too expensive.
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Old 01-14-2018, 09:00 PM
 
Location: Woodland Park, CO
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Beware what you wish for.
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Old 01-14-2018, 09:18 PM
 
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Boulder seems to be run by the landlords and property owners...both want property values to skyrocket, and less new construction means less they have to compete with.
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Old 01-15-2018, 08:03 AM
 
Location: Colorado Springs
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I don't know that we need more large corporations here so much as we need tremendous growth in non-DOD based, middle income positions. Whether it is large corporations bringing that or smaller companies and start ups with growth potential is less important than creating a climate where both of these can happen. It seems to me that we have a significant number of very high paying, security clearance types of jobs that continue to bring high end employees here and we have a lot of basic, non technical types of call center jobs that pay minimum wage plus commissions. The loss of technology manufacturing has nearly wiped out those middle of the road positions and numerous smaller support companies paying employees $40-90k annually.

Managed growth has always been a challenge in CO with Boulder at one end of the extreme and COS at the other. Just because we are here doesn't mean we have a greater right to be here than others wanting to move in, nor should we simply be putting up housing and strip malls for the sake of creating more population centers. A lack of a vision and master plan to help direct this creates the conflicts. Cos has not had this for many, many decades and the result is what we see now. We are trying to create a more unified direction now but it still needs more traction.

IMO, its bigger than just Colo Spgs. We need to start looking more into how we partner with Pueblo to make southern Colorado attractive as an alternative to northern Colorado. Cos has lost several bids for large distributions centers in recent years because of a lack of transportation infrastructure. Pueblo has great rail infrastructure but has problems with perception of QOL, schools, and a mindset that if you aren't a native, you aren't worth doing business with. Cos still has this national reputation as a conservative mouthpiece, mixed schools, and is too dependent upon altruistic billionaires to promote civic projects. Develop a plan to address those issues, co-promote our strengths, develop a plan for growth, and we can all win.
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