Business & Industry in Denver
The Denver area is home to the world's largest single-site brewery, the world's largest producer of coins, the nation's only laboratory dedicated to renewable energy, and the largest concentration of federal agencies outside Washington, D.C.
National Laboratory of the Rockies (formerly NREL)
Based in Golden, the facility long known as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory — renamed the National Laboratory of the Rockies by the U.S. Department of Energy — is the country's only national laboratory dedicated specifically to renewable energy and energy-efficiency research, developing technology used across the solar, wind, and grid-storage industries nationwide.
Coors Brewery
The original Coors brewery in Golden, founded in 1873, is the largest single-site brewery operating anywhere in the world, with a production capacity of roughly 22 million barrels a year.
United States Mint at Denver
The Denver Mint, which struck its first coin in 1906, is the single largest producer of coins in the world, capable of striking more than 50 million coins in a single day.
Denver Federal Center
Spanning 690 acres in Lakewood, the Denver Federal Center became, after World War II, the largest single compound of federal agencies outside Washington, D.C. — today home to roughly two dozen federal agencies and about 6,200 employees.