Building a Better Glendale in 2008

2008 is sure to be an exciting year in and around Glendale.  The Greater Glendale Chamber of Commerce is working with residents, businesses and our local Glendale government to build a better Glendale.
There are several significant projects to watch this year – most along Cherry Street:

• King Soopers is planning to redevelop the corner of Leetsdale Drive and Cherry Street, site of the former Cub Foods.
• The Cherry Street Bridge will see a few improvements this year.
• Keep your eye on the corner of Cherry Street and Kentucky Avenue where Baron Properties will be knocking down the existing apartment building and redeveloping the site with a new apartment complex.
• On the opposite corner, the City is building a new Sports Complex, set to open in July.
• Next to the Sports Complex along Kentucky Avenue will be the new International Events Center – a conference facility with the biggest ballroom between Downtown and the Tech Center.  It is scheduled to open in November.
• Rugby has arrived in Glendale!  Check out our calendar of upcoming events here on the website or visit www.glendalerugby.com for all the games, tournaments and rugby info.  Both the men’s team and the women’s team will be in the hunt for the national championship in 2008! 
• The corner of Cherry Street and Mississippi Avenue is the future home of the south half of Infinity Park – an open park with big trees, landscaping, an athletic field and plenty of room to run around or even just sit and read a book. 
• A new retail site should begin development south of Barnes & Noble along Colorado Blvd with pedestrian access behind Murray Motors and the Post Office through to Birch St.

All of this in less than one square mile – and the Chamber of Commerce will be right in the middle of the action!

If you and your company are not part of the Greater Glendale Chamber of Commerce, consider joining.  Here are a few of the benefits:

The best way to get involved with the Glendale Chamber is to be involved!  The Chamber has a tremendous impact on our local community.  Can you put a value on relationships?  We build relationships by offering extraordinary networking events within the Glendale Chamber.  Members have the opportunity to meet and get to know “big business” managers from Home Depot and Target while at the same time interacting with smaller business owners and managers that only have a handful of employees – or less.  And there are lots of businesses somewhere in between.  Getting involved with the local business community can only help your business.

Glendale has earned the reputation of being a very business friendly city.  It is easy to navigate through the government because it is very thin – there aren’t a lot of people.  Employees are focused on a friendly, results oriented approach to problem solving.  Chamber members can easily get to know the local elected officials and the administration within the City because many of them attend the Chamber events.

The political side of the Chamber doesn’t end with the local government.  We have gotten to know our County Commissioners, members of the state government and even our elected officials at the Federal level.  Please let us know if there is anything we can ever help with on any level of government.

Because of the relationships with apartment managers and owners, during the summer, as people move into Glendale they are given a “welcome bag” with a variety of coupons and gifts.  These bags offer free advertising for Chamber members.  With over 2000 apartments in Glendale, it is priceless exposure – especially because most people moving into a new area establish many of their buying habits within the first few months of arriving.
 
Being a part of any community involves giving back to those in need.  The Chamber takes great pride in offering several events throughout the year to support four outstanding non-profit organizations:  the YMCA, the Central City Opera House Association, the Four Mile Historic Park and the Denver Hospice.  

Chamber members are given advertising discounts in the local newspaper, the Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle.  With a distribution to over 80,000 homes, this may be the best value of all for advertising in the metro Denver area.  In every issue, about half of the advertising comes from Chamber members. You’ll find many stories in the paper about member businesses and the people behind them.  Additionally, the Glendale Chamber buys a page every month to support and showcase our members.

This is just the beginning. There is much, much more to the Glendale Chamber.  If you are interested, we encourage you to get involved.  Give us a call at 303-584-4180 or simply

sign up online.