Brad Rowland / Florence High School

What do you get when you cross a tech hub and a historic high school? In Florence, Colorado, the answer is Emergent Campus, a multi-award-winning rural business incubator! When Florence students moved into their new schools in 2019, Brad and his colleagues at Emergent Campus figured the historic school could be reborn as a place that would draw remote workers to beautiful parts of Colorado, just far enough away from the costly and busy co-working spaces of the urban Front Range. The community got a great tech hub and to hang on to its historic high school all while creating an attraction that will continue drawing economic development for years to come. It's adaptive reuse and preservation for a new day in Florence!