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Article: Brighton hopes good trumps bad and ugly: with wind in its sails from Vestas, the city aims to attract more development.(WHO OWNS COLORADO)
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- February 1, 2009
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Brighton either is half-empty or half-full, or both.
The half-empty part is so obvious even the city's public relations counsel Ken Parks brings the subject up right off the bat.
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Brighton home inventories "never have gotten really out of control," says Parks, who also serves on the Brighton Economic Development Corp. board of directors. "So the slowdown happened and the foreclosures with that, but we have jobs coming in, so I just think one of the main things you look at is to stimulate home-building."
True, a look at Adams County and Brighton, its county seat, produces some unsavory credit- and mortgage-related ...