Welcome to beautiful Denver, Colorado. Denver is home to some of the most exciting real estate opportunities in the great state of Colorado. It has memorable landmarks, fantastic schools, and a thriving job market. If you’re looking to buy a house in this area, then you’ve come to the right place. Read on to learn more about this jewel in Colorado’s crown. Denver is the most populous city in Colorado. It has an estimated population of just over 700,000 people and is an outdoor enthusiast’s dream city receiving over 300 days of sunshine on average each year. The downtown is very walkable (shoutout to 16th street!) and has a wide range of excellent shops, museums, and other amenities that tourists and residents alike love to visit.
Get to know Denver. Here is a handy map to show you where it’s located in relation to downtown Denver.
Community Vital Information
Population: 700,000
Economy:
The Denver MSA has a gross metropolitan product of $157.6 billion in 2010, making it the 18th largest metro economy in the United States. It’s economy is based partially on its geographic position and its connection to some of the country’s major transportation systems. Because it is the largest city within 500 miles (800 km), it has become a natural location for storage and distribution of goods and services to the Mountain States, Southwest states, as well as all western states. Another benefit for distribution is that the city is nearly equidistant from large cities of the Midwest, such as Chicago and St. Louis and some large cities of the West Coast, such as Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Over the years, the city has been home to other large corporations in the central United States, making Denver a key trade point for the country. Several well-known companies originated in or have relocated to it. William Ainsworth opened the Denver Instrument Company in 1895 to make analytical balances for gold assayers. Its factory is now in Arvada. AIMCO (NYSE: AIV)—the largest owner and operator of apartment communities in the United States, with approximately 870 communities comprising nearly 136,000 units in 44 states—is headquartered there, employing approximately 3,500 people. Also, Samsonite Corp., the world’s largest luggage manufacturer, began in the city in 1910 as Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing Company, but Samsonite closed its factory there in 2001, and moved its headquarters to Massachusetts after a change of ownership in 2006. The Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company, founded in the city in 1911, is now a part of telecommunications giant Lumen Technologies (previously CenturyLink).
On October 31, 1937, Continental Airlines, now United Airlines, moved its headquarters to Stapleton Airport in Denver, Colorado (before United Airlines later moved to its current home in Chicago). Robert F. Six arranged to have the headquarters moved there from El Paso, Texas because Six believed that the airline should have its headquarters in a large city with a potential base of customers. Continental later moved to Houston from the city but merged with United Airlines in 2013. Throughout that time, the company held a large employee base in the surrounding area, which is home to the United Airlines Flight Training Center in the Central Park neighborhood. MediaNews Group purchased the Denver Post in 1987; the company is based in the city. The Gates Corporation, the world’s largest producer of automotive belts and hoses, was established in there in 1919. Russell Stover Candies made its first chocolate candy there in 1923 but moved to Kansas City in 1969. The original Frontier Airlines began operations at the city’s old Stapleton International Airport in 1950; Frontier was reincarnated at DIA in 1994.
Scott’s Liquid Gold, Inc., has been making furniture polish in the city since 1954. Village Inn restaurants began as a single pancake house there in 1958. Big O Tires, LLC, of Centennial opened its first franchise in 1962 in the city. The Shane Company sold its first diamond jewelry in 1971 there. In 1973 Re/Max made the city its headquarters. Johns Manville Corp., a manufacturer of insulation and roofing products, relocated its headquarters to Denver from New York in 1972. CH2M Hill, an engineering and construction firm, relocated from Oregon to the city Technological Center in 1980. The Ball Corporation sold its glass business in Indiana in the 1990s and moved to suburban Broomfield; Ball has several operations around the city.
Molson Coors Brewing Company established its U.S. headquarters in there in 2005 but announced its departure in 2019. Its subsidiary and regional wholesale distributor, Coors Distributing Company, is in the city. The Newmont Mining Corporation, the second-largest gold producer in North America and one of the largest in the world, is headquartered in the city. MapQuest, an online site for maps, directions and business listings, is headquartered in the city’s LoDo district.
Large Denver-area employers that have headquarters elsewhere include Lockheed Martin Corp., United Airlines, Kroger Co. and Xcel Energy, Inc.
Downtown Denver:
The Denver Mint Building:
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