Colorado says Treasury acted on all 91 Opportunity Zone nominations

Colorado says the U.S. Treasury Department has acted on every Opportunity Zone 2.0 tract the state put forward. In a release dated Monday, November 2, 2026, Gov. Jared Polis and the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) said Treasury has acted on all 91 census tracts Colorado submitted in September, and that the zones go live for investment on January 1, 2027. Polis said the new zones have “the potential to generate over $4 billion in investments” in the state.

Same 91 tracts. OEDIT’s Opportunity Zone program page now carries a November 2026 list of the 91 tracts by county and census tract number. We checked it line by line: it is the same 91 tracts Polis nominated on Sep 28, 2026, with no tracts added or dropped. The tracts sit in 32 counties. Adams County has 14, Denver 13, El Paso 8 and Arapahoe 7. See them on Adams County Opportunity Zones, Denver Opportunity Zones, El Paso County Opportunity Zones and Colorado Opportunity Zones.

Rural and beyond the Front Range. OEDIT says 28 of the 91 tracts, about 31%, are rural, above the 28% rural share among the state’s eligible tracts. Treasury’s Sep 23, 2026 eligible-tract file (XLSX) also flags 28 as rural. Those tracts can draw Qualified Rural Opportunity Funds, which get a 30% basis step-up instead of 10%. The state also says 35 tracts are outside the Front Range, 89 overlap a state Enterprise Zone, 47 include transit-oriented communities, 33 overlap a Rural Jump-Start Zone and 10 are in coal transition communities.

Grants for zone communities. OEDIT says it will give grant funding to Colorado communities inside the new zones to help them attract investment. Guidance on the grants is due before the end of 2026, with webinars on how to apply in early 2027. The state points to its first-round record: over $3.2 billion invested in Colorado zones through 2024, second in the nation for the number of zones that drew investment. Treasury identified 362 eligible Colorado tracts, and under IRS Rev. Proc. 2026-14 the state could nominate up to 25%, or 91.

Still nominated. This is the state’s own account. In October, Polis’s office said it expected Treasury action by the end of November (our earlier story). Treasury’s Opportunity Zone data page still shows only the OZ 2.0 eligible-tract data and has not yet published its own OZ 2.0 list, and no IRS or CDFI Fund list is published yet. Until Treasury publishes that list, we show all 91 Colorado tracts as nominated. Every state’s filing is on the tracker: opportunityzoneinvest.com/tracker

Sources. OEDIT release, Nov 2, 2026 · OEDIT Colorado Opportunity Zone Program page (November 2026 list) · Treasury Qualified Opportunity Zones data page · Treasury Sept 2026 eligible-tract data (XLSX) · IRS Rev. Proc. 2026-14 (PDF)