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Industries
Small business. Housing. Healthcare. Heavy industry. Advanced energy. Existing employers provide a practical starting point for supplier, expansion, and property investment.
Small business
Business formation, retention, and growth. The campaign team can connect small businesses with property information and with Chamber business staff who share business contacts and expansion prospects.
Existing employers. Mission Foods and the County’s agricultural production areas support food processing, packaging, cold storage, and agricultural services. Target Distribution Center and regional freight infrastructure support warehousing, distribution, transloading, and fleet services.
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Housing
The County’s households and employment base support evaluation of several housing formats. Concepts are reviewed with attention to land use, existing buildings, utilities, access, and what changes for residents.
75,503
Housing units
July 2025 estimate
$291,300
Median owner-occupied value
ACS 2020–2024
$1,111
Median monthly gross rent
ACS 2020–2024
5.6%
Apartment vacancy
Overall, mid-2024; below 2% in apartments built since 2010
226 new housing units with permits issued countywide in 2025. From January 2022 through September 2024, 990 detached home permits were issued countywide, including 609 in Pueblo West and other unincorporated areas.
Products to evaluate. Apartments near jobs and services, attached homes, and smaller homes for older households are potential development formats. The regional plan supports a wider housing mix. An approved revitalization plan can support qualifying housing and mixed-use projects through CRA property ownership, infrastructure investment, and tax increment financing.
Submit a housing conceptHealthcare
Healthcare campus potential along the Highway 50 East corridor and elsewhere. The campaign team can prepare site briefs, maps, and utility information for healthcare concepts and coordinate with partners until handoff.
Existing employers. UCHealth Parkview Medical Center and CommonSpirit St. Mary-Corwin Hospital. Medical offices, clinical facilities, and related services are natural companions to campus concepts.
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Heavy industry
Heavy industry recruitment and expansion. PuebloPlex and Pueblo West Metropolitan District staff provide property records and infrastructure knowledge; utility engineers provide service information and project capacity responses.
Steel and industrial manufacturing. Rocky Mountain Steel Mills, CS Wind America, Trane Technologies, and pewag. Fabrication, components, industrial services, and supplier facilities.
Aerospace and advanced manufacturing. Collins Aerospace; engineering and technical programs at local colleges. Precision manufacturing, supplier production, and applied research.
Rail engineering and testing. MxV Rail at PuebloPlex; the separate ENSCO-operated Transportation Technology Center. Rail equipment, testing support, engineering, and maintenance.
Submit a heavy industry conceptAdvanced energy
Pueblo County welcomes advanced power and energy solutions, including advanced modular energy technology and power systems serving energy-intensive technology infrastructure. Concepts are reviewed for land use, utilities, energy, water, and wastewater requirements with the help of utility engineers and partners.
PuebloPlex zoning. Power generation is already a permitted use in the County’s PuebloPlex zoning district. Qualifying renewable energy and storage projects on designated disturbed-land sites can be considered for TIF financing or reimbursement under Colorado’s renewable energy reinvestment provisions. See CRA financing.
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The thinking behind development decisions
Every concept is considered from six perspectives.
Markets and businesses
Market thinking examines demand and opportunities for business formation, retention, and growth.
Finance and risk
Financial thinking tests feasibility and weighs costs, funding, and risk.
People and communities
Community thinking considers workforce needs and how development affects residents.
Innovation and enterprise
Entrepreneurial thinking explores how ideas and technologies create opportunities for business formation and growth.
Places and infrastructure
Spatial thinking connects land use, existing buildings, utilities, and access.
Strategy and delivery
Strategic thinking connects long-term goals with the partners and resources needed to achieve them.