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Mytikas Industries Chief Financial Officer Eric Bonick at the company’s factory near Florence, Colo., on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. Bonick says the tinyhome manufacturing plant will eventually bring nearly 200 jobs to Fremont County. Photo by Mike Sweeney / Special to The Colorado Trust 

A rural Colorado startup is about to test tiny homes manufactured from recycled steel to prove that they can withstand Colorado’s weather, including snow loads up to 100 pounds per square foot, wind storms and intensifying wildfires.  

Mytikas Industries—named for the highest part of Mount Olympus, mythological home to Greek gods—plans to start building what it calls “premium-grade” small homes in a refurbished 80-year-old former gypsum factory in Florence, about 40 miles southwest of Colorado Springs.

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September 25, 2018

The Rich Get Richer

A new national analysis by the Economic Policy Institute reveals Colorado’s income growth continues to stream unequally to the top 1 percent.

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