The commercial real estate market in the Grand Valley continues to try to strengthen. Local real estate activity has remained quite busy, and 2013 has seen investor purchases for the first time since 2008. However, it’s commercial leasing activity that’s kept local commercial brokers busy into the holidays. It happens toward the end of each […]
In the course of my law practice I often ask clients, “What is it that you will leave to your loved ones?” During the discussion, the beginning answer of “my wealth” evolves into the real answer — “myself and my stuff.” All of that really is one’s wealth. Drilling down into the meaning of “myself” […]
Thanks to the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, charitable Individual Retirement Account gifts are once again allowed in 2013. An IRA owner aged 701/2 or older may give up to $100,000 this year to either a 170(b)(1)(A) public foundation or 501(c)(3) charity. Congress could elect to extend this opportunity in 2014 and subsequent years. […]
There’s something powerful and serene about watching hot air balloons rise in the morning stillness, their burners propelling colorful shapes into the atmosphere. Retirement is a lot like untethered flight — life’s possibilities are limited only by your imagination and where the wind takes you. At one time, you could count on lifts from a […]
The Grand Junction City Council expects to spend less in 2014 than 2013, but still fund a list of capital projects as well as economic development and community partnerships. Mayor Sam Susuras said the budgeting process was a lengthy one for the council and city staff. “It proved to be a tough exercise as we […]
Kelly Sloan, The Business Times Mesa County Commissioners have adopted a 2014 budget that reflects lower revenue and spending levels overall, but still includes allocations for two business development organizations. Proposed cuts to the budgets of the sheriff’s department and district attorney’s offices were not implemented. Mesa County Administrator Tom Fisher said projected revenues for 2014 […]
Kelly Sloan, The Business Times Previously one of the most active energy development companies in Western Colorado, Encana has announced it’s suspending drilling operations in the Piceance Basin. Sandy Kent, community relations director for Encana, confirmed the company has no plans for drilling in 2014, although production operations will continue at existing wells. Encana also will […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times LaVern Williams has lots of ideas — ideas about how to store rainwater, install solar panels in decorative artificial trees and even prevent birds from hitting airliners. “I’ve got it from the ground to the air. I’ve got it covered,” Williams said. Now the inventive Grand Junction woman hopes to enlist […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Dr. K.C. Lewis has a wide variety of tools and techniques at his disposal to relieve pain in his patients. “If there’s anything that can be done with interventional pain, we do it,” said Lewis, an anesthesiologist who runs Western Rockies Interventional Pain Specialists in Fruita. It’s not just the diversity […]
Kelly Sloan, The Business Times The idling of a Western Colorado coal mine following a fire comes at a time when lower prices and stricter regulations already pose challenges to the coal industry. Oxbow Mining announced plans to idle its Elk Creek Mine near Somerset, laying off another 115 employees. The move follows a fire in […]