Located at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, metro Denver offers its businesses and residents a diversified geographical setting combining thriving rural mountain communities with an urban lifestyle befitting a great American city.

Home to half a million people with almost two million more living in the surrounding metropolitan area, Denver benefits from the nation’s #1 international airport for on-time arrivals, a first-rate public transportation system, and robust telecom, cable and satellite communications. Denver is within four hours flying time of every major city with a population of one million or more on the continental United States.  Furthermore, the Denver area’s unique geographic location makes it the largest city in the U.S. to offer one-bounce satellite uplinks that provide real-time connections to six out of seven continents in one single business day.

With the third-most highly educated workforce in the country, Denver offers relocating and expanding companies everything they need to prosper. The City and County of Denver has an innovative and surging K-12 school system, and residents and businesses have convenient access to top-tier higher educational institutions such as the University of Colorado, Colorado State University, the University of Denver, and the Colorado School of Mines.

Denver also boasts world-class cultural amenities, seven professional sports teams, and recreational opportunities for city dwellers and outdoorsmen alike.

• Workforce & Education
  The third-most highly educated workforce in the country is an important key to growth for businesses and industries in the Denver area.
  
  
• Transportation
  Denver’s transportation infrastructure and world class international airport is what you would expect from an older city on the east coast, not a young one in the West.
  
  
• Robust Telecom, Cable & Satellite Communications
  Denver is the largest city in the U.S. to offer one-bounce  satellite uplinks that provide real-time connections to six out of  seven continents in one single business day.
  
  
• Strength in Diversity
  From telecom to cable, aerospace to manufacturing, biotechnology to research, metro Denver provides a healthy mix of viable industries and educated employees.
  
  
• Quality of Life
  Three hundred days of sunshine, the 2nd largest performing arts complex in the country and the nation’s largest public park system are just a few reasons why Denver is one of the best places to live, work and play in the country.