Recent Articles from Julie Kailus
TARRA: A New Way for Women to Work
TARRA women’s workspace is a new concept for connecting entrepreneurs with a community of support. Located in 9+CO—the 26-acre redevelopment of a former teaching hospital at Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard—TARRA touts a modern “work club” model. Two spaces meet women where they’re at. Members can choose from an open-plan membership space with monthly memberships […]
Via Ferrata: Colorado’s Next Big Outdoor Vertical?
Via ferrata may be the biggest outdoor recreation business you’ve never heard of. Translated, “iron ways” started in the late 1800s as a secure way to climb and traverse mountainsides in the Italian Dolomites. Today, Colorado contains the largest concentration of via ferratas in North America. Via ferratas give adventure seekers immediate access to jaw-dropping […]
Outdoor Retailer, We Hardly Knew You
After five short years—two plodding through the pandemic—the trade show for the country’s biggest outdoor brands is departing Denver. The city will lose big bucks—hundreds of millions—and associated global attention as an outdoor mecca. Outdoor Retailer’s twice-a-year event stretched from downtown Colorado Convention Center booths to iconic slopes, rivers and trails for product demo[...]
Colorado Women in Film: No Cash Cow, But Wildly Collaborative
The film industry is an incentives business. And historically Colorado hasn’t secured the cache that brings big names, crews and budgets to underdog states like neighboring New Mexico. Colorado is beholden to TABOR, the amendment that caps state revenue retained and spent, but also jockeying interests. “We have a couple of million dollars, so we’re […]
Work Hard, Play Hard
Western Colorado University, in partnership with CU Boulder, is tapping the state’s iconic outdoor setting to put its brand-new Paul M. Rady School of Computer Science and Engineering on the map. In a new collaboration with outdoor-focused media company BLISTER, known for its in-depth gear review site, the Gunnison-based engineering facility will put next-gen engineers […]
The Clever Cousin Duo Behind Sports-Inspired Byte Bars
The youngbloods behind Byte Bars are crafty, cool and connected. The East Coast cousins re-synced while both attended the University of Colorado Boulder. “As female athletes, we knew how much putting the right fuel in our bodies affected our energy,” says Sabina Rizzo, 28, a former collegiate skier who founded the company with Casey Nunnelly, […]