Denver Tech Center
History
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The DTC was established in the early 1970s. Cable companies United Cablevision, 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 still used today.
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 has since grown to 850 acres, and over 25 million square feet of buildings have been completed. The area's progress was a major reason for Denver Regional Council of Governments's T-REX expansion into the Denver Tech Center, which built new light rail lines connecting the Denver Tech Center to downtown Denver.
Notable Denver Tech Center area companies
- Agilent Technologies
- Air Methods (headquarters), moved to DTC in 2017
- Aimco (Apartment Investment Management Company), (Headquarters)
- Allied Insurance
- Arrow Electronics, Inc.
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- Boeing
- CableLabs, developed cable standards DOCSIS and CableCard
- Clear Stone Associates
- Charter Communications
- CH Robinson
- Ciber
- Comcast
- Cordell & Cordell
- DHL Express
- Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
- Eide Bailly LLP
- Empower Retirement
- Envivio
- Farnsworth Group
- Fidelity Investments
- Gold Fields Ltd, Gold Fields Exploration, Inc.
- Great-West Life
- HP
- ICG Communications
- Jacobs Engineering
- JP Morgan
- Kane Dulin McQuinn Young
- Kraft Foods
- Lennar
- Liberty Global
- London Trust Media (headquarters)
- Merrill Lynch
- Microsoft
- Morgan Stanley
- Mosaic Family Wealth
- Nationwide Insurance
- Nestlé
- Newmont Mining Corporation
- Nissan Motor Corporation
- NBCUniversal
- Oracle Corp.
- Pax8
- PepsiCo
- Plante Moran
- ProBuild
- Protective Life
- Red Robin, (Headquarters)
- ReportsNow, (Headquarters)
- RE/MAX, (Headquarters)
- RSM US
- SAP
- Shaw Group
- Sprint
- Stanley Consultants
- Starz Entertainment
- The CE Shop
- TeleTech
- URS Corp.
- United Launch Alliance
- VF Corporation, (Temporary Headquarters)
- Wachovia Securities
- Western Union
- WideOpenWest
- Workiva
- WSP Global
- XO Communications
- Zoom Video Communications
Other business parks in the same vicinity are Inverness Business Park and Meridian Business Park, located farther south along I-25.
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.