RE/MAX Chairman Among Top SEBP Honorees

Recognition honors lifetime of service to southeast metro business community
Recognition honors lifetime of service to southeast metro business community

RISMEDIA, June 1, 2006?Dave Liniger, RE/MAX International co-founder and chairman of the board was presented the ?Jack Vickers Award? by the Southeast Business Partnership (SEBP) in ceremonies May 19. The recognition honors a lifetime of service to the southeast metro business community.

Liniger entertained the crowd with stories of his early beginnings and the history of his successful RE/MAX International real estate franchise operation. He cautioned the group about the metro area’s need for a sound infrastructure, excellent education and a reasonable attitude toward growth because ?we can?t stop people from coming to this great place.

University of Colorado president Hank Brown and CH2M Hill president and CEO Ralph Peterson received Eagle Awards for significant contributions to the area’s economic development. In his keynote address, Brown told the group that the University of Colorado is the state’s number one engine for economic growth due to the $630 million in externally funded research coming into Colorado annually. In addition to research, Brown also pointed to the revenues being generated by new products, new patents and new bioscience start-ups related to CU?s new medical and research campus at Fitzsimons. Colorado is truly unique in that at Fitzsimons, we have the only health sciences campus in the world that can offer hospitals, research facilities and a commercial bioscience park in one location,? Brown explained.

The event marked the seventh year for such awards from SEBP which are presented in recognition of contributions made by companies and individuals in the areas of economic development and quality of life in south metro Denver.

Larry Warner, formerly of the Colorado Department of Transportation was also honored along with Bill Ryan and Trammell Crow Co. for the Hampton Town Center Project. House minority leader, Mike May, Arapahoe County commissioner Lynn Myers, Douglas County commissioner Mike Maxwell, and Denver City councilwoman Peggy Lehmann were also recognized.

Chetter Latcham and Peter Culshaw of Shea Homes and Shea Properties received ?The Deal of the Year award? for the purchase of key undeveloped land in the Denver Tech Center and the Meridian International Business Center.