School and commercial multifamily housing projects are helping to buoy construction firms in Northern Colorado, now in its third year of decline. Rendering credit: The FWA Group Colorado State University�s Research Innovation Center contains a manufacturing center, lab and office space, BSL3 imaging and a vivarium. Those contractors, design firms and developers that are surviving are diversified and conservative, and they have learned a new way of doing business to stay in the black, including going out of state.   “This whole economy has turned our business upside down,” says Terry Drahota, president and CEO of Drahota Construction in Fort

The Kemmerer family, owner of the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, faced a dilemma five years ago. Photo by Tristan Greszko The JHMR tram has the longest vertical rise of any North American ski resort and provides visitors with 360-degree vistas that include Grand Teton National Park, the Snake River and the Jackson Hole Valley. The resort�s iconic aerial tram, dubbed �Big Red,� was a year shy of turning 40. A study had revealed that the tram required extensive maintenance and improvements. The Kemmerers had to decide whether to invest about $15 million to upgrade the tram or an estimated $25