"In the Game" is a multi-day event featuring smart people, pioneering research, powerful ideas and placed-based strategies designed to make Colorado downtowns better. This year DCI and DURA are moving beyond the traditional "talking heads" conference. Instead, they're transforming the event into a tool to help communities solve the difficult challenges they face right now.

Colorado companies saw an investment rebound in the past three months as local firms raised more money in one quarter than they did in the first half of last year. Altogether, 43 companies in the state raised $344.5 million during the first quarter of 2017.

CSU this week launched the Regional Economic Development Institute, or REDI, to focus on the economics of rural and urban areas across Colorado. The institute intends to identify and analyze economic development strategies in struggling rural and urban areas throughout the state.

With planning help from state economic developers, Delta County Economic Development Inc. drew up its future plans in 2016. These plans include investments in solar, a food manufacturing incubator, organic food, recreation and tourism, broadband, and other investments in renewables.

Tax credits can help clean up pollution and renew communities, three experts from Buffalo and Denver told Oregon leaders and professionals during a visit to Portland last week – but it's important to think carefully as they're set up.

The 33 federally funded research facilities in Colorado contributed an estimated $2.6 billion to the state's economy in 2015 and either directly or indirectly supported more than 17,600 jobs, according to a report released by the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder.

The tax incentives Colorado uses to lure television and movie productions to the state are poised to ride off into the sunset. Colorado's lawmakers rejected a request from Gov. John Hickenlooper to set aside $3 million for film incentives as part of the draft budget bill scheduled to debut Monday.

This course brings TIF deal-making and best practices into focus through a two-day program targeting the entire TIF community including economic developers, public agency representatives, bond issuers, legal professionals, developers, financial advisors, and other stakeholders. 

Join the CDFA Colorado Financing Roundtable, in partnership with EDCC, CHFA, and DCI for a special one-day conference hosted at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Denver Branch. This event will feature a number of economic development finance experts from around the state discussing development finance tools, authorities, resources and approaches, and how these can affect the Colorado economy going forward.

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