Avenue West

5 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 1 we moved through our history (AvenueWest Corporate Housing launched in 1999), we were able to survive all of those major economic downturns. Meanwhile, a lot of our competition was going out of business.” Feeling confident that their business model was sound, they turned the brokerage into a franchise and became AvenueWest Global Franchise in 2010. Today, they’re one of the top 500 companies on Inc. Magazine’s list of fastest- growing companies, ranking 435th with three- year revenue growth of 1,127%. They also scored the number two spot on the Denver Business Journal’s Fast 50 list for 2021. “We’re up to 15 cities,” Healy confirms. “We have San Francisco and Sacramento. Las Vegas and Reno. We’re in Phoenix, Scottsdale and Tucson in Arizona. We’re in five cities in Colorado – Fort Collins, Boulder, Denver, South Denver, Denver Tech Center, and Colorado Springs. We’re in Dallas, Texas, St. Louis, Missouri, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia also.” Healy and her husband purchased the franchise business in 2017, growing it from seven franchisees to the current 15 during their tenure. “We’ve more than doubled in that four-year period and our goal is to double again over the next four years,” she declares. “We’d like to have 30 cities by 2025, and our current franchisee in the Denver Tech Center – he’s actually Canadian – is looking at opening Avenue West Canada for us. So, that’s in the very early stages.” When it comes to courting a good AvenueWest franchisee, the criteria is fairly straight-forward. According to Healy, “It’s someone who’s willing