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New COVID-19 restrictions will prohibit personal gatherings Adams Co. economic summitindoor tries todining, keep spirits high
Construction at Lennar at Buffalo Highlands, a new subdivision in eastern Commerce City. New housing development will be a key economic driver to help Adams County recover from the current recession, said economist Patty Silverstein at an Adams County Regional Economic Partnership event on March 4. PHOTO BY LIAM ADAMS
economist Patty Silverstein about “State of the Region” the county’s post-pandemic recovery. Concluding her presentation, event features Silverstein, president of DevelopResearch Partners, said, Sen. John Hickenlooper ment “Hang in there. In another four to six months, we will feel oh, so much and economist Patty better. We will start to feel like we’re on a growth track oncesite again.” A long line of cars outside the city of Brighton’s rapid testing at Silverstein to deliver Still, Silverstein’s optimistic Riverdale Regional Park. The site has had to close early many days in recent predictions didn’t overshadow data weeksoptimistic due to high demand. 14-day test positivity rate about the destruction that COVID-19 messageAdams County’s
When the data is finalwas 15.9 percent, as of Nov. 17, accordinghas to caused. Tri-County Health Department. ized, Silverstein expects LIAM ADAMS City’s test positivity Brighton andBYCommerce rates weresaid bothshe higher than Adams County’s 2020 average unemLADAMS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM 13 percent. Forty-five people in Brighton and 29 in Commerce City have ployment rate to be about 8 percent. died COVID-19 related To limit theonspread of COVID-19, how one looks at the Thefrom pandemic might have health done issues.Depending numbers,that though, Adams County damage, the future looks at least 15but counties moved tobright, tighter restrictions prohibits indoor and did better than some of its neighwas the message the Adams County personal gatherings.
bors. When unemployment skyrocketed last spring as public health restrictions tightened, Adams County “had the least job losses of anyWard of Photo by Belen the metropolitan area counties,” Silverstein said. That’s partly due to Adams County’s employment base.
Regional Economic Partnership (AC-REP) sought to send at the State of the Region event on March 4. The economic development group’s inaugural event featured an uplifting message from Sen. John Hickenlooper and a forecast from
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As Denver metro counties continue to inch closer to local stay-at-home orders under Colorado’s system of coronavirusrelated restrictions, the state announced a new level of rules that prohibits indoor dining and personal gatherings — a change that applies to the majority of the Fifty of jobs in thecounties countyin Denverpercent metro area and many are considered middle-wage, like other regions. those in the manufacturing, conThe state’s COVID-19 dial, which has struction and government sectors. been in effect since September, is the set Unemployment didn’t hit high and of different levels of restrictions each middle-wage jobs as severelythat as lowwage ones, like those retail, leisure
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county is required to follow based on the severity of a county’s local virus spread. The dial grew out of the state’s safer-athome order — the policy that came after the statewide stay-at-home order this spring and allowed numerous types of businesses to reopen. The state recently switched to color identifiers — levels blue, yellow and orange rather than numbered levels — to and a group repreavoidhospitality confusion. ,Until Nov. that 17, level red sents 27% of workers in the county meant a stay-at-home order. Now, level . Still, Silverstein said, “Adding all red —together, “severe risk” —we is the secondthat then, saw, again very significant job losses in 2020.”
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