Hickenlooper: No need for a statewide economic development plan

Instead of the governor’s office telling the rest of the state how to create jobs, the rest of the state should tell the governor.

At least, that’s how Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper would do it if he were governor, the Democrat running for that office said Monday during a two-day stop in the Grand Valley.

As part of Hickenlooper’s “job-creation road map,” the mayor said some of the same strategies he used as a restaurateur in Denver in the late 1980s would work statewide, including getting competing businesses in the same room to work on boosting sales for all, he said.

Hickenlooper said, “Instead of having, like everybody else does, a statewide economic development plan, we want to go out and just provide a template to have all 64 counties to do their own economic development plan.”    - More -