Wind turbine facility planned (400 new jobs, CO)

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http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/energy/article/0,2777,DRMN_23914_5292922,00.html

Denmark-based Vestas Wind Systems is negotiating to build a plant near Windsor in northern Colorado that would create more than 400 jobs.

The Vestas plant could put Colorado on the map as a center for renewable energy and serve as a catalyst for other businesses in the field, said Tom Clark, executive vice president of the Metro Denver Economic Development Corp., who met with Vestas officials in Windsor on Friday.

The deal was first reported Friday afternoon on the Northern Colorado Business Report Web site. The business journal quoted unidentified sources as saying that Vestas is close to building a 180,000-square-foot plant in the Great Western Industrial Park, a 700-acre business center owned by Denver-based Broe Cos. The park is east of the Kodak plant.

"We have met with (Vestas), we are talking to them, and we would love to have them here," said Alex Yeros, Broe's managing director for the Great West Industrial Park. "We think our park is perfectly suited for this company and other companies in the renewable energy field.

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