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Business View Magazine
Great Place to Live,
Work and Play
Consistent growth rate makes Broomfield a stimulating environment
The municipality of Broomfield, Colo. was incorporated
as a city of just 6,000 residents in 1961.
But that official milestone was merely the start of a
two-pronged growth spurt.
Broomfield stretched beyond its Boulder County bor-
ders with annexations into Jefferson, Adams and Weld
counties over a three-decade span through 1989 –
and a significant population spike was instigated by
the arrival of large technology and telecom companies
by the middle of the 1990s.
That swell of new arrivals – and the subsequent ser-
vice headaches created by a city linked to four jurisdic-
tions – prompted passage of an amendment to the
state constitution that opened a three-year transition-
al window for allowing Broomfield to reconfigure itself
