Building community through collaboration: Longmont businesses find opportunity despite COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic has impacted businesses across the country, but it s also sparked new ideas and opportunities. For three businesses in Longmont, it s meant taking big leaps of faith while also proving the power of working together.
and last updated 2021-03-03 00:38:59-05
LONGMONT, Colo. â The coronavirus pandemic has impacted businesses across the country, but it s also sparked new ideas and opportunities.
In a December study, the Colorado Chamber of Commerce found about 33% of businesses say theyâve experienced a slight or moderate impact from COVID-19, and 11% reported a strong negative impact.
Mar. 2—Construction began Monday on an 18-month project that will bring two bicycle and pedestrian underpasses and new safety features to the 30th Street and Colorado Avenue intersection. According to a news release from the city, the project will improve connections to existing sidewalks, bike lanes and multi-use paths. It also will reconstruct or relocate existing transit stops and install .
Joshua Pollack, a self-professed Jersey boy from Bergen County, came to Colorado in 2002 to attend the University of Colorado Boulder. He liked the state, but missed the bagels from back home.
He was convinced that Colorado-made bagels could be more than just bready rings, though, and after other entrepreneurial endeavors, he decided to go to culinary school while taking post-graduate business classes. He also spent time in New York City learning the bagel trade and testing the water there before tinkering with Colorado’s to replicate the mineral content of the Big Apple’s H20.
The resulting bagels proved exquisite and addictive, with a tender crumb and a delicate skin providing equal parts crackle and chew. In 2014, after a short stint selling them at the Galvanize co-working space in the Golden Triangle, Pollack opened Rosenberg’s Bagels & Deli in a long-vacant building at 725 East 26th Avenue in Five Points.
The Biden administration announced Friday that it's overhauling how it calculates the economic toll of greenhouse gas emissions, a change that could
A study in Science Advances has reported on how gendered expectations and policies regarding parenthood are impacting women in academia. The study, led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, reports that women experience a 20 percent drop in productivity after having a child compared to when men become fathers.
The work was based on detailed data analysis – including the timing of parenthood and publication data up to 2018 from 3064 faculty members at 450 computer science, history, and business departments across the United States and Canada. It also included institution-specific parental leave policies. It turns out that despite these policies being key to women’s career prospects, 43 percent of those institutions have no such policies.