Denver: the Mile-High City gains altitude."Contrary to popular perception, the weather in Denver is not like Chicago, only worse." Rather, says 24-year resident Ivan Burwell, Denver is one of the few stretches of Colorado that enjoys relatively mild temperatures year-round. Last winter, though surrounded by some of the best ski slopes in the world, the metro area This article is about the music production team. For the article about population centers, see metropolitan area. Metro Area are a Brooklyn-based dance music production team composed of Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani. actually got less snow than New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . There are a lot of other little-known pluses about the Mile-High City. Denver is the nation's second-largest governmental center (Washington, D.C., is, of course, first); it is referred to by, some locals as "the final frontier," for its distinct lack of typical urban congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. ; and it's a young, vibrant city where the median age of residents is around 34 and the prevailing lifestyle is anything but sedentary sedentary /sed·en·tary/ (sed´en-tar?e) 1. sitting habitually; of inactive habits. 2. pertaining to a sitting posture. sedentary of inactive habits; pertaining to a fat, castrated or confined animal. . On the business front, the big news is that, despite several highly publicized pub·li·cize tr.v. pub·li·cized, pub·li·ciz·ing, pub·li·ciz·es To give publicity to. Adj. 1. publicized - made known; especially made widely known publicised setbacks, Denver is poised to transform its reputation from that of the nation's transportation bottleneck A lessening of throughput. It often refers to networks that are overloaded, which is caused by the inability of the hardware and transmission lines to support the traffic. It can also refer to a mismatch inside the computer where slower-speed peripheral buses and devices prevent the CPU to its transportation capital, thanks to the $3 billion-plus Denver International Airport This article is about Denver International Airport. For other uses, see KDEN (disambiguation). Denver International Airport (IATA: DEN, ICAO: KDEN, FAA LID: DEN), often called DIA (DIA). Touted as the biggest, the best and the last major airport built in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. this century, the project has generated its share of controversy. But it has also generated a breakthrough level of opportunity for minority-and women-owned businesses. Specifically, under Denver's Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program, about 46% of the business opportunities associated with the airport will go to such enterprises (versus only 5% for Denver's Stapleton International Airport Stapleton International Airport was Denver, Colorado's primary airport from 1929 to 1995. At different times it served as a hub for TWA, People Express, Frontier Airlines and Western Airlines as well as a hub for Continental Airlines and United Airlines when the airport was closed. ). A significant portion of the businesses in line to benefit are owned by African-Americans. In fact, African-American involvement in DIA began with the selection of Philadelphia-based Pryor, McClendon, Counts & Co.--the nation's second-largest black-owned investment bank--as lead underwriter Lead underwriter The head of a syndicate of financial firms that are sponsoring an initial public offering of securities or a secondary offering of securities. Could also apply to bond issues. for the airport's $400 million debt offering. African-American concessionaires, including food franchises, pay telephones and parking facilities, stand to generate more than $20 million annually, says Wayne Cauthen, director of the mayor's office of contract compliance. Among the food concessionaires is Atlanta-based H.J. Russell & Co., ranked No. 4 on the 1993 BE INDUSTRIAL/SERVICE 100. Despite its notoriety NOTORIETY, evidence. That which is generally known. 2. This notoriety is of fact or of law. In general, the notoriety of a fact is not sufficient to found a judgment or to rely on its truth; 1 Ohio Rep. , the airport is not the only game in town. Denver has grown tremendously, spurring more construction opportunities than most cities in recent years. When its primary industry--oil and gas--went bust in the '80s, the city suffered. Luckily, the booming cable industry picked up some of the slack. The nation's largest cable company, TCI (Trustworthy Computing Initiative) An umbrella term from Microsoft for its efforts to improve security in Windows. TCI was announced in 2002 after viruses such as Code Red and Nimda had succeeded in attacking numerous Windows computers. Cable, as well as United Cable, Mile-High Cable and others, all call Denver home. Most recently, the city's appeal lured the flourishing Boston Chicken franchise from its former headquarters in Naperville, Ill. With many industries and the systems to serve them already in place, Denver is in position for success. Denver has also proven attractive to many black professionals, enjoying a strong contingent of doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers and even cowboys. (The black rodeo was founded in Denver by Lou Vason.) Ivan Burwell, a native Philadelphian, went to Denver as an undergraduate in 1971 and never left. Today, as national program manager for Coors Brewing Co., Burwell proudly notes how far the city has come. "We even have a skyline now," he jokes, adding, "and the airport, when it opens, is going to be fantastic." MAYOR WELLINGTON E. WEBB Denver is a city only 13% black within a state just 4% black--so the fact that two African-American competed against each other in the last mayoral race says something. To the victor, Mayor Wellington E. Webb, it is proof that his city lacks the resistant, racist baggage of older, more established urban areas. That reality, however, hasn't exempted him from the daunting daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin task of trying to prove, since the summer of 1991, that his constituents made the right choice. Webb--a former city auditor, regional director of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and state legislator--came to his current post as a seasoned manager and strong proponent One who offers or proposes. A proponent is a person who comes forward with an a item or an idea. A proponent supports an issue or advocates a cause, such as a proponent of a will. PROPONENT, eccl. law. of small business. Many contend that it was Webb's ability to literally touch Denver's people--walking the streets in an informal press-the-flesh campaign--that won the city. That attentiveness at the grass-roots level has continued. Carolyn Love, director of Denver's Small Business Development Center, points to Webb's support of the Circuit Rider circuit rider, itinerant preacher of the Methodist denomination who served a "circuit" consisting usually of 20 to 40 "appointments." The circuit system, devised by John Wesley for his English societies in their formative period and developed in America by Francis Program as illustrative of his commitment. Webb put $43,000 in city funds into the program, which sends an expert directly into the community to provide one-on-one services to fledgling small-business owners in the enterprise zone. Lately, Webb has taken a lot of heat, but he has continued to tackle--not run from--the city's problems. In March, when DIA's $193 million automated baggage system failed to pass some crucial tests, the multimillion dollar delay in the airport's scheduled opening was laid squarely at Webb's feet. Far less was made of his negotiation of what Love calls a "brilliant deal," by which United and Continental airlines would pick up the $30 million cost of the delay. "If he didn't delay [the opening], it would have been a nigthmare," says Corrs' Burwell. "Instead, the delay has become his nightmare." Perhaps. But when DIA opens this month (mid-May), Webb expects a bright new day: a general awakening to Denver's positioning and potential as a major business and transportation center. DENVER AT A GLANCE POPULATION Total 467,610 Black 60,046 % Black 12.8% FAMILIES Total Families 110,414 Total Black Families 14,651 Ratio (black:total) 1:7 THE MIDDLE CLASS 68.3% of Denver's families are in the middle class 12.1% of Denver's middle class families are black 62.4% of all black families in Denver are in the middle class Middle class = Family pretax-income range is $25,000 to $74,999 INCOME Average Income $41,809 Black Average Income $30,404 SCHOOLS Annual Estimated Expenditure $306,633,000 Expenditure Per student $4,998 OFFICE PHYSICIANS General Practitioners 626 Specialists 2,285 CRIME Total 7,625 Violent Major Crimes 1,050 Property Crimes 6,575 COST OF LIVING Composite index Composite Index A grouping of equities, indexes or other factors combined in a standardized way, providing a useful statistical measure of overall market or sector performance over time. Also known simply as a "composite". 103.0 PROCUREMENT Government dollars spent purchasing goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. Total $391,000,000 Minority/Women $100,000,000 FORTUNE 500 HEADQUARTERS Number 3 Sales $5.3 billion Staff 27,043 BE 100S HEADQUARTERS Weldon Sullivan Hudson & Co. Lead & Comanaged $2.1 billion Staff 7 UNEMPLOYMENT Overall 5.0% Black Average 12.3% HOUSING Median Monthly Rent $530 Median Home Value $87,300 BLACK BUSINESSES Number of firms 2,198 Sales $83,675,000 Staff 733 |
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