Except the foot of snow in my driveway doesn't destroy my house. And I have a snowblower.

 

Until you have the lovely erratic Denver weather drop 2 ft of snow, then temperatures above freezing causing it to melt and flood. But hey, just like those Houston 737 drivers who said "it'll never happen" you can think that there won't ever be a disaster.

Also if memory serves me correctly, Denver is at a much higher risk for fires when there isn't enough snow. In 2012 didn't the Waldo Canyon fire destroy about 350 homes and burn over 18,000 acres near Colorado Springs?

Then there was the 2013 Colorado Front range flood. Granted Boulder was hit hardest but 19,000 homes were damaged and 1500 destroyed.

There are risks no matter where you choose to locate the building...personally I would have kept two locations. Should a snow storm stop operations you can use the other facility, should a hurricane stop operations you can do the event in Denver. Yes it costs more to have two facilities, but it costs even more if you ever need to borrow someone else's devices because of a problem at your one location.

 

Hard to produce a consistent product if you have two locations.

 

Name me any random city for our training center location and myself or other members on here can break down how bad that city would be. Maybe it's bad airport connectivity, wild fires, thunderstorms, ice storms, tornadoes, heat waves, earth quakes, god damn hippies, etc.

 

So you're sayin' they ain't gonna move TK to SFO?!?!

 

I think everyone here is lookin at this wrong.

The training center is one part of the equation. I almost guarantee that the current site and remodel revived the biggest incentives from the City of Denver and the state of Colorado. The rest of this is small potatoes. If I remember correctly the city of Denver offer just north of a Billion dollars in breaks to United. Think bigger than just a training center. All of a sudden DEN is the highest margin airport(the pot Industry definitely helped this but that only part of the picture). The location had everything to do with a better deal overall for Denver not where the training center is located.

 

What's wrong with hippies?

 

Like I said....TK was already owned, big enough to house all the sims, with enough land for expansion. Why start over? Add in some city of Denver incentives = NO BRAINER.

But I never considered the wildfires!!! I hope somebody did an analysis on that. Anywho, I'm just glad that I will resume my PCs and Transitions about 35 min from the homestead. That's PRICELESS.

 

I'm just a little skeptical of them after their attempt to take over a small town in South Park Colorado with a music festival. Fortunately 4 young boys saved the town.

 

Fortunately we're back to White People Renovating Houses there and got rid of that riffraff.