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Commerce City has Board of Adjustment meetings the second Tuesday of each month at 5:30 in the Council Chambers.

Commerce City has Planning Commission meetings the first Tuesday of each month at 5:30 pm in the Council Chambers.


 

C3ED Business Journal

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C3ED Business Journal - July 2007

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Commerce City wins Edie Award


The city received the Economic Development Council of Colorado’s top award for Large Community of the Year in 2006.  The award is given to the Colorado community that best exemplifies:

  • support for economic development – financial, board participation, lobbying, etc.
  • planning and investment in long-term development of the community – infrastructure, permanent financing of ED, targeted strategies to secure primary jobs, etc.
  • special project or development during year.

Adams County Economic Development (ACED) submitted the nomination.


Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Award Winner

Dr. Nathaniel Moore, president and founder of Rocky Mountain Urgent Care (RMUC), was awarded the prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year Award® by Ernst & Young on June 21. He won the Socially & Environmentally Responsible category. RMUC opened its medical office in Commerce City in February 2007. This office is one of five locations in the Denver metro area. It has outperformed the opening of the other offices by doing four times the business for a single location.

The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® Awards continues more than 20 years of recognizing the leaders and visionaries who are creating and building world-class businesses. Moore was one of seven award recipients out of a field of more than 60 nominees.  Awards were presented for seven different categories:  Emerging, Technology, Healthcare & Lifesciences, Real Estate & Hospitality, Socially & Environmentally Responsible, Business Services and Retail & Consumer Products. 

Each award winner demonstrated excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.

The winners in each category are eligible for the National Entrepreneur of the Year® Category Awards, and will become lifetime members of the Entrepreneur of the Year® Hall of Fame.

Rocky Mountain Urgent Care was nominated for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur Award by Forrest Smith, III, of Merrill Lynch and the Commerce City Economic Development staff at Commerce City.

Deer graze at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge