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by mwksl 2111 days ago
The reception of this move appears to be... mixed[0]. As a Denver resident, I'm interested in seeing if this moves some larger offices out of Boulder and into Denver. Boulder seems to be suffering under the weight of zoning laws[1], but Denver seems to be capable of expanding, or at least adapting[2].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/iczx59/palantir_hq_... [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/business/how-anti-growth-... [2] https://www.denverpost.com/2018/08/06/denveright-denver-plan...

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Boulder is our own mini SF here in Colorado. Housing is artificially expensive and has many of the same things going on as SF regarding zoning. Really cool and hip place that has become increasingly unaffordable over the last decade.
> The last decade

It think it goes back a bit further than that. Boulder has been seven square miles between the mountains and reality since the early 90's.

i love how these giant companies choose to locate in municipalities that are either geographically,culturally or politically hostile to expansion & gentrification AND THEN bitch about nimbys. maybe we were better off when the coastalites just thought we were all backwater and racist.
While interesting, it's important to not interpret Redditor opinions as representative of the larger populace.