Denver Technological Center, better known as The Denver Tech Center or DTC, is a

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and economic trading center located in

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in the southeastern portion of the

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, within portions of the cities of

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and Greenwood Village. The DTC roughly corresponds to the area surrounding the

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corridor between I-225 and SH 88 (Arapahoe Road) and has a similar business community reputation to

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. The DTC was founded in 1962 on 40 acres. It is home to several major businesses and corporations. In 2023, its owner Shea Properties stated the park encompassed 908 acres, with a workforce of around 35,000 and around 1,000 companies as tenants.

History

The Denver Tech Center was founded in 1962 on 40 acres. When it was developed in 1962, the Denver Technological Center was "one of the first suburban office parks in the United States," located at the junction of

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and Interstate 225. George Wallace, a founder of the DTC, had started picking out parcels of land in Arapahoe County before founding the park, including property owned by the Bansbach family. John Madden Jr., a developer, was involved in the project along with DTC founder George Wallace. It started on 40 acres, and in terms of development, "George Wallace was on the east side of I-25 and John Madden was on the west side of I-25."https://www.denverpost.com/2024/01/24/denver-developer-john-madden-dies-tech-center-fiddlers-green/ The Denver Tech Center was designed by architect/planner Carl A. Worthington. In the early 1970s, investors asked Worthington to complete a conceptual master plan along a new fiber optic line south of downtown Denver. The master plan started with forty acres, with potential for an additional 800 acres. The plan subsequently grew to 850 acres, with over 25 million square feet of completed buildings. The DTC was established in the early 1970s. Cable companies United

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, United Artists Cable, and later AT&T Broadband, all had their start in - and still have major infrastructure around - the Denver Tech Center. In the Colorado area, Bill Daniels and John C. Malone were early adopters who shepherded many standards in cable technology. The area's progress was a major reason for

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' T-REX expansion into the Denver Tech Center, which built new

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lines connecting the Denver Tech Center to downtown Denver.Transportation Expansion (T-REX) Multi-Modal Transportation Project-

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-T-REX, http://www.environment.fhwa.dot.gov/strmlng/casestudies/co.asp Part of the 1992 film '' Ladybugs'' was shot at the park in 1992.https://kdvr.com/news/entertainment/9-movies-filmed-in-colorado/ In 2005, DTC was owned by Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., an operator of ports and ferries based in London. DTC Meridian operated as a P&O subsidiary, owning a handful of the buildings on the park, and also owning the 100 acres not yet developed. Overall, the DTC park covered 900 acres. In late 2005, Peninsular & Oriental agreed to be acquired by DP World, giving DP World full control of the DTC.https://www.denverpost.com/2005/11/29/emirate-to-own-tech-center/ However, in February 2006, it was announced that P&O had sold its entire property portfolio in Denver to Shea Homes, a US building company, for an undisclosed amount. In 2009,

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and

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both had workers in the Denver Tech Center. In 2010, the DTC had 40,000 workers in around 14 million square feet of office space.https://www.denverpost.com/2010/03/05/fitzsimons-from-vacant-army-post-to-medical-promised-land/ In 2016, Quixote Capital Management was based in the Denver Tech Center. So was the James P. and Rebecca T. Craig Foundation, and Three Peaks Capital Management. In 2023, Shea Properties, the owner of DTC, stated the park was 908 acres with a workforce of more than 35,000 and more than 1,000 companies. Also in 2023, the ''Denver Post'' reported that the vacancy rate in DTC was 16.7%, while the overall vacancy rate of downtown Denver was 28.8%, and 21.2% for the suburbs.https://www.denverpost.com/2023/09/11/south-denver-tech-center-belleview-real-estate-market-post-covid/ Unlike newer business parks, the newspaper noted that the DTC had been built with places to eat and shop as "afterthoughts", with many of the buildings dating back to the 1980s and 1990s.

Features

The Denver Tech Center is symbolized by the DTC Identity Monument, which sits immediately between I-25 and DTC Parkway in Greenwood Village. The monument was designed by Barber Architecture and is meant to resemble the framework of a skyscraper.Barber Architecture
, DTC Identity Monument by Barber Architecture. Other business parks in the same vicinity are Inverness Business Park and Meridian Business Park, located farther south along I-25.

Notable Denver Tech Center area companies

Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies, Inc. is an American global company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, that provides instruments, software, services, and consumables for laboratories. Agilent was established in 1999 as a spin-off from Hewlett-Packar ...

* Air Methods (headquarters), moved to DTC in 2017 * Aimco (Apartment Investment Management Company), (Headquarters) * Allied Insurance * Arrow Electronics, Inc. *

Booz Allen Hamilton Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation (informally Booz Allen) is the parent of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., an American company specializing in intelligence, AI, and digital transformation. It is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washing ...

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CableLabs Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabs) is a nonprofit corporation promoting innovation as a research and development lab founded in 1988 by American cable operators. System operators from around the world are eligible to be members. T ...

, developed cable standards

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and CableCard * Clear Stone Associates * Charter Communications * CH Robinson * Ciber *

Comcast Comcast Corporation, formerly known as Comcast Holdings,Before the AT&T Broadband, AT&T merger in 2001, the parent company was Comcast Holdings Corporation. Comcast Holdings Corporation now refers to a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation, not th ...

* Cordell & Cordell * DHL Express * Dow Jones & Company, Inc. * Eide Bailly LLP * Empower Retirement * Envivio * Farnsworth Group *

Fidelity Investments Fidelity Investments, formerly known as Fidelity Management & Research (FMR), owned by FMR LLC and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, provides financial services. Established in 1946, the company is one of the largest asset managers in the ...

* Gold Fields Ltd, Gold Fields Exploration, Inc. * Great-West Life * HP * ICG Communications * Jacobs Engineering *

JP Morgan JPMorgan Chase & Co. (stylized as JPMorganChase) is an American multinational finance corporation headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. It is the largest bank in the United States, and the world's largest bank by mar ...

* Dulin McQuinn Young *

Kraft Foods Kraft Foods Group, Inc. was an American food manufacturing and processing conglomerate (company), conglomerate, split from Kraft Foods Inc. on October 1, 2012, and was headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It became part of Kraft Heinz on July ...

* Lennar *

Liberty Global Liberty Global Ltd. is a British-Dutch-American multinational telecommunications company domiciled in Bermuda, with headquarters in London, Amsterdam and Denver. Its respective legal names are Liberty Global Holdings Limited (UK), Liberty Glo ...

* London Trust Media (headquarters) *

Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, doing business as Merrill, and previously branded Merrill Lynch, is an American investment management and wealth management division of Bank of America. Along with BofA Securities, the investm ...

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The ear ...

Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. With offices in 42 countries and more than 80,000 employees, the firm's clients in ...

* Mosaic Family Wealth *

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Newmont Mining Corporation Newmont Corporation is an American gold mining company based in Greenwood Village, Colorado. It is the world's largest gold mining corporation. Incorporated in 1921, it holds ownership of gold mines in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Do ...

* Nissan Motor Corporation *

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* Oracle Corp. * Pax8 *

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* Plante Moran * ProBuild *

Protective Life Protective Life Corporation is a financial service holding company in Birmingham, Alabama.https://protective.newshq.businesswire.com/sites/protective.newshq.businesswire.com/files/press_kit/file/We_Are_Protective_Life_-_Company_Overview_and_Finan ...

* Red Robin, (Headquarters) * ReportsNow, (Headquarters) * RE/MAX, (Headquarters) *

RSM US RSM US LLP is an audit, tax, and consulting firm focused on the middle market in the United States and Canada and is a member of the global accounting network RSM International. RSM US has been ranked as the 7th most prestigious accounting firm i ...

* SAP * Shaw Group * Sprint * Stanley Consultants *

Starz Entertainment Starz Entertainment Corp, formerly known officially as Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation and commonly as Lions Gate and/or Lionsgate, is a Canadian-American entertainment company currently headquartered in Santa Monica, California. Founded by ...

* The CE Shop * TeleTech * URS Corp. * United Launch Alliance *

VF Corporation VF Corporation (formerly Vanity Fair Mills until 1969) is an American global apparel and footwear company founded in 1899 by John Barbey and headquartered in Denver, Colorado. The company's 11 brands are organized into three categories: Outdoor ...

, (Temporary Headquarters) * Wachovia Securities *

Western Union The Western Union Company is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Denver, Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1851 as the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company in Rochester, New York, the co ...

WideOpenWest WideOpenWest, Inc. (doing business as WOW!) is the eighth largest cable operator in the United States with their network passing 1.9 million homes and businesses. The company offers landline telephone, cable television, and broadband Internet ...

* Workiva * WSP Global * XO Communications * Zoom Video Communications

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