News At-A-Glance
Brighton, Colorado
Continued...City News
Article by Cathie Johnson & Susan Stanton
state highway 85, I-76, I-70 and I-25) and the personal attention that it provides corporations that choose to set up business here. The Staples center is located at the Bromley Industrial Park near I-76, along the developing eastern edge of the growing community.
• Nearby, a new half-million square-foot consolidated Adams County campus will house 2,000 employees at Adams Crossing, a development of Carlson-Parkhill, LLC.
• Carlson-Parkhill also has helped spark historic downtown revitalization with its Brighton Pavilions development. Brighton’s downtown is experiencing a renaissance with new facades, restaurants, local specialty shops and wellness centers.
• On the international stage, last summer, Toshiba executives unveiled cutting-edge MRI equipment at Brighton’s new $138 million Platte Valley Medical Center. Toshiba chose to showcase its MRI equipment in Brighton, because of its convenient access to and from DIA, making it easy to demonstrate its new capabilities to international visitors.
• Up the road at Brighton Crossing,masterplanned residential community by Carma, which has developed 80 master-planned communities across North America, people are attracted to more house for their money and seldom-matched community amenities. Sales at the community climbed by 40 percent between 2006 and 2007, according to reports from homebuilders in the community. “Brighton saw its economic star rising with the coming of DIA in the 1980s,” says Troy Whitmore, vice president, United Power, the local utility provider with its headquarters in Brighton. Whitmore is chairman of Brighton Economic Development Corp.
Nesting eagles at nearby Barr Lake State Park along I-76 steer DIA air traffic away from Brighton, but, E-470, the area’s 70-mileper- hour superhighway, located at the city’s southern edge, puts people at DIA in about 15 minutes.
Five of 12 total runways at DIA – twice the size of Manhattan Island in New York City – are operational today and a $1.2 billion upgrade to the airport.