Longmont has scored another win for east county as the Boulder County Business Hall of Fame moves to the Radisson. The Millennium Harvest House Hotel in Boulder, which has been the host of annual awards since 1992 , was simply becoming too small for the annual events. Read about in the Longmont Times-Call.
Although the Hall doesn't have staff, or much presence outside the annual awards, for Boulder to lose this organization to Longmont because of size requirements underscores the reality facing Boulder today. Older, outdated and a lack of adequately sized meeting space within the city has businesses looking east. Businesses are often finding east Boulder County has the space - and regulatory environment - they prefer. And they can still tap into the Boulder market, as well as the huge north I-25 corridor growth. See The Beast in the East, Yellow Scene February 2006.
But the loss is strongly symbolic as well. Boulder considers itself the hub of the County, and moves like this are a slap of reality that there is a world on the other side of Foothills Highway.
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