Top 10 High Demand Jobs in Broomfield Metro - Home of Secretariat's Owner, Penny Tweedy

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By Patty Inglish, MS

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Mega-Metros

Because of fast growth and development, the City and County of Broomfield was founded in November 2001, where the city had formerly been located in four separate counties in a land formerly inhabited by the Apache, Arapaho, and Cheyenne Native Americans. As European-Americans headed west, the Broomfield area became part of the Louisiana Purchase the year Ohio became a state: 1803. The 1850 discovery of gold and the 1870s advent of the railroad increased transportation, commercial, and residential access to the land. A Boulder Turnpike highway opened in 1950.

Today, the local transit and parks systems support air, bus, and rail services, park-n-rides and call-n-ride options, ADA accommodations, bike paths, foot trails, an airport shuttle, Senior Citizen transport, and financial incentives to carpool.

We have found nearly 46,000 jobs in the Broomfield job market in autumn of 2010, with signs that new jobs will increase through 2020. Most of the most frequently listed job vacancies are occurring in Information Technology (IT), Management, Retail Sales, Healthcare, and Casual Dining. Much of this labor market opportunity is involved with increasing populations, incoming businesses, and the location Broomfield midway between the larger Denver and Boulder, Colorado Metro Areas. The entire makes a larger region as the Denver - Aurora - Boulder Metro Area. Moneytells us that population rates are rising, crime rates are low, and school systems are of the highest standards and effectiveness.

Broomfield was placed on list of the Best 100 Places to Live in America by CNNMoney.com in 2010. The city is in the Number 19 slot out of the 100cities , with a population of 55,000 and a driving distance, as advised by Money of only 20 minutes to either of its nearby the larger metro areas.

Taking off from Broomfield. Colorado Rockies in the background.
Taking off from Broomfield. Colorado Rockies in the background.

Rocky Mountain Airport Air Show 2010

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Expansion

Sections of the town of Interlocken were added to Broomfield n the mid-1980s and became a business park that was facilitated by additional highway construction, much of it accomplished with private rather than government funding. SUN Microsystems and Level 3 Communication moved in, followed by Flatiron Crossing upscale mall. All this was followed by continuing commercial and residential growth in tandem with transportation improvements.

HEALTHY BROOMFIELD

Healthy Broomfield (http://www.healthybroomfield.com/) encourages healthy activity in its Broomfield America on the Move project. Attractive blue and white signs around Broomfield and surrounding towns encourage folks to walk 2,000 steps a day, eat just 100 calories less per day, and to park farther away from businesses and walk for healthy activity.

Secretariat: The Making Of A Champion
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Actual Footage of the 1973 Belmont Stakes

Famous Local People and Their Racehorses

Walt Disney Pictures has filmed a true story about a famous racehorse owner and a famous line of race horses that produced a miracle in 1973. The owner, Penny Chenery Tweedy of Denver, took the reins of a crumbling racing empire from her role as homemaker and determined fought discrimination against women with the support of her staff, friends, and finally her family in order to produce the miracle of Secretariat.

Mrs. Penny Tweedy still lives in Boulder, Colorado in the 2010s, having raised her two daughters an dtwo sons with her husband John in Denver. She flew back and forth between Denver and her father's farm, Meadow Farm, in Caroline County VA to keep the lineage and dream that would manifest as Secretariat alive. She did all of this in the late 1960s and the early 1970s when the discriminatory glass ceiling was so thick that women could hardly see through it. Advancing age and racial differences were also major qualities for discrimination in these years of the Civil Rights Era and Vet Nam Conflict,

The horse Secretariat is called the greatest racing horse that ever lived.I wondered why, having seen footage of only the first two races in the 1973 Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. However, the Belmont Stakes at the end of the trio of races in 1973 was astounding. Having set speed records against other top horses in the first two races, Secretariat won the Belmont by 31 lengths. To date, he is the only horse ever to be featured simultaneously on the covers of Newsweek, Sports Illustrated and Time. His speed records remain thus far unbroken for his Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes runs. He is the only animal in the ESPN 50 Greatest Athletes of the Century. Reporter and author William Nack and Walt Disney Pictures present an inspiring story in 2010, highlighting recent history that not everyone knows.

SECRETARIAT

Tribute statue at the Belmont Stakes track. Secretariat, also called "Bid Red."
Tribute statue at the Belmont Stakes track. Secretariat, also called "Bid Red."
Secretariat
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Secretariat (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
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Job Vacancies Increase of 56%

Data provided by SimplyHired.com, a job search engine.
Data provided by SimplyHired.com, a job search engine.

Top Hiring Employers

  1. IBM 4,018
  2. Kaiser Permanente 848
  3. Raytheon
  4. Dish Network
  5. Deloitte
  6. HCA Healthcare
  7. University of Colorado - Boulder
  8. US Air Force
  9. Taco Bell
  10. Brookdale Senior Living
  11. Centura Health
  12. HCA
  13. Oracle
  14. Exempla Healthcare
  15. Denver Public Schools
  16. Pizza Hut
  17. Aerotek
  18. Home Depot
  19. Starbucks

Top 10 High Demand Jobs

  1. Project Managers
  2. Customer Service Representatives
  3. Solution Representatives/Brand Specialists - Sales and services.
  4. Salespeople
  5. Allied Health Jobs
  6. Baristas
  7. Shift Supervisors
  8. Nursing - CNAs, Aides, Assistants, etc.
  9. Registered Nurses (RNs)
  10. Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs)

Additional High Demand Jobs

  • Sales Representatives
  • General Managers/Asst Mgrs 
  • Software Engineers
  • Physical Therapists
  • Administrative Assistants
  • Taco Bell Management and Crew Jobs

Largest Area Employers

  1. Lockheed Martin Space Systems - Littleton CO
  2. Peterson Air Force Base
  3. University Of Colorado – Boulder, Denver
  4. IBM - Boulder CO
  5. Great West Life & Annuity Ins - Greenwood Village
  6. Transportation Safety Office - Denver
  7. Molson Coors Brewing Co.
  8. University of Colorado Hospital
  9. Printers Personnel
  10. Level 3 Communications Inc - Broomfield CO
  11. Rocky Flats Environmental
  12. St. Anthony Central Hospital
  13. Elitch Gardens
  14. Miller Coors LLC
  15. St. Joseph Hospital
  16. Dish Network Corporpation
  17. Wells Fargo Bank
  18. Boulder Community Hospital

The USAF 50th Spacewing is another agency located near Broomfield, about 60 miles to the southwest. With privatized spaceflight and major spaceports becoming operational in the American Southwest, this installation and its Schriever Air Force Base can be important to future growth in the Denver-Aurora-Boulder area.

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Hello, hello, 20 months ago

Thank you, Patty, for an informative hub. I can't apply or look at any job but I enjoy learning about the town.

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Patty Inglish, MS Hub Author 20 months ago

I think some of these presentations can help people learn about geography and history a little, so their even more interesting for me to do now. Thanks, Hello, hello.

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