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Page 10AA — COLORADO REAL ESTATE JOURNAL — May 6-May 19, 2015
Economic Development News
The Arvada Economic Devel-
opment Association partnered
with the city of Arvada’s GIS
team to create an online interac-
tive map of the city of Arvada,
now accessible on AEDA’s web-
site. The map is available for
public use and can assist com-
mercial developers, real estate
professionals and business
owners in obtaining valuable
information and data for devel-
opment and business use pur-
poses. The map is intended to
increase customer service and
promote business in Arvada by
making this information more
convenient and readily avail-
able.
The main benefit of the
Arvada Interactive Map is the
visual display of various data
layers, according to AEDA.
These map layers feature
Arvada Business Improvement
Districts, the Arvada Urban
Renewal District, city parcels,
comprehensive land use, city
council districts, floodplain and
zoning. The map provides vari-
ous imagery base maps, tools
for measuring distance and
area, and direction searching –
a hand tool that allows users to
explore the city.
The map is available on
AEDA’s website at http://
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ment.org.s
The Denver Office of Economic
Development hiredAmyMueller
Edinger to fill its newly created
position of chief operating officer,
a role designed to strengthen the
OED’s operations and capacity
to achieve its strategic plan goals
for business recruitment, reten-
tion, housing, neighborhoods,
strategic lending and workforce
development.
“As our most senior-level
career service position, Amy will
work alongside all divisions to
help our teams succeed,” said
OED Executive Director Paul
Washington in making the
announcement. “Over time, this
role will help ensure continuity
and consistency of our critical
work between administrations as
well.”
Edinger’s experience includes
leading both public- and private-
sector teams. She served as dep-
uty chief of staff to former Mayor
JohnHickenlooper aswell asdep-
uty manager for the Department
of Public Works. More recently,
she led government relations for
Kaiser Permanente Colorado,
where among many duties she
coordinated the region’s govern-
ment relations strategy with the
national program. Other past
positions include policy adviser
for the city of Boulder as well as
legislative director to former Gov.
Roy Romer.
She earned her bachelor’s
degree in political science from
Colorado State University and
her master’s in public affairs
from the University of Colorado
Denver. s
KPMG LLP, a U.S. audit, tax
and advisory firm, has opened
the first of several planned
high-tech work environments
designed to facilitate the cross-
functional teaming critical to
the successful design and deliv-
ery of emerging solutions to
its clients. Dubbed “Ignition
Centers,” the environments are
modeled after leading technol-
ogy parks and business incuba-
tors around the world that fea-
ture dedicated, project-focused
workspaces designed for infor-
mation sharing, collaboration
and increasing efficiencies dur-
ing the creative process.
The new Ignition Center,
based in Denver, will bring
approximately 125 new jobs to
the area in highly sought-after
fields including data science,
enterprise architecture, appli-
cation programming, solution
development and IT integra-
tion.
“While we have offered these
types of solutions for some
time, we are now focused on
centralizing the design and
prototyping of these solutions
in collaborative workspaces
– enabled by the technology
necessary to spark innovation,”
said Stephen Chase, KPMG’s
U.S. Advisory Management
Consulting leader.
In addition to KPMG’s strong
presence in the region, Denver
was chosen as the location for
the first center because its met-
ropolitan area boasts a booming
information technology work-
force, including software devel-
opers and computer program-
mers, and is rated as a top city
for Millennials to develop their
careers, according to the firm.
KPMG plans to open additional
Ignition Centers later this year.
The Ignition Centers also
house state-of-the-art tools to
facilitate virtual collaboration
and interactive demonstrations.
Specifically, the centers are
designed to deliver capabilities
in data and analytics, digital
solutions, technology business
management, tax transforma-
tion and technology, elevating
business in the cloud and HR
transformation.
Updates…
n The Metro Denver Eco-
The Longmont Area Econom-
ic Council awarded five Cor-
nerstone Awards to Longmont
businesses to recognize their
contributions to the economic
health of the community over
the past year during its 15th
annual Cornerstone Awards
Luncheon.
This year’s awards recog-
nized businesses in each of
the Advance Longmont Target
Industries – advanced technol-
ogy, bioscience, creative arts
and culinary, and professional
services and information tech-
nology. New this year, the eco-
nomic council also presented
an award to specifically rec-
ognize the contributions of
small business to Longmont’s
economy.
“With this year’s awards, we
really wanted to bring atten-
tion to the Advance Longmont
Target Industries, and remind
everyone why they are a part
of the city’s economic develop-
ment strategy,” said economic
council President Jessica Erick-
son. “These awards show that
companies within these indus-
tries are already making sig-
nificant contributions to our
economy through job creation
and capital investment.”
The nominees for the 2015
Cornerstone Awards in each
category were:
• Advanced technology:
SK hynix Memory Solutions,
Sparkfun Electronics and
UASUSA
• Bioscience: NSpire Health,
RMC Pharmaceuticals and
Syngenta Seeds
Professional Services and IT:
BW Systems, Computer Ter-
rain Mapping and Pigler Auto-
mation
• Creative Arts and Culinary:
Boulder Organic Foods, Sage-
script Institute and Two Moms
in the Raw
• Small Business: Crackpots,
District 303 “Art of Hair,” Fab-
ulous Finds and Rosalee’s Piz-
zeria.
This year’s Cornerstone
Awards winners were:
• SK hynix Memory Solu-
tions, a leading provider of
NAND flash solutions that
opened a new engineering
office in Longmont in 2014,
where it employs 12 people,
including leading engineering
experts of storage and firm-
ware design.
• RMC Pharmaceutical Solu-
tions, a provider of expert ser-
vices to the pharmaceutical,
biotechnology, medical device,
bioenergy and food industries.
It employs 14 scientists and
engineers in a combined office-
laboratory in Longmont.
• BW Systems, a low-voltage
systems integrator specializing
in design, installation and ser-
vices of access control, CCTV
Video recording, and com-
mercial intrusion instruments.
BW’s northern office in Long-
mont employs 12 people, pro-
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