Makenzie Bowman and Karen Duhl have joined Bray Real Estate as broker associates in the Grand Junction office. Pamela Hightower has joined the business as a broker associate with the Your 3A Team in Montrose. Bowman relocated from Crested Butte, where she worked in real estate for five years. Duhl relocated from Michigan and brings […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times The Mesa County labor market hasn’t returned to pre-pandemic conditions, but a decreasing unemployment rate and growing labor force constitute what Curtis Englehart considers progress. “We’re going to get there,” said Englehart, director of the Mesa County Workforce Center in Grand Junction. Moreover, one measure of labor demand has surged […]
Construction is underway on a regional cancer center and medical office building at Community Hospital in Grand Junction. The 130,000-square-foot James Pulsipher Regional Cancer Center and medical office building is set for completion in 2023 and expected to cost about $53 million. “We are extremely proud of this project,” said Chris Thomas, president and chief […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many changes to the way organizations operate and employ their work forces. Some changes have heralded a new normal from which there’s no going back. Kate Lister, president of Global Workplace Analytics, estimates that by 2025, 70 percent of the work force will work remotely at least five days a […]
When customers like — or better yet, love — your business, they provide not only their patronage, but also glowing recommendations. Business owners who want to operate enterprises that thrive in easy times and survive in challenging times must consistently endeavor to turn their customers into raving fans. I’ve encountered some business owners proud to […]
If you’re like most people, including me, you’re probably eager to hit the road or the air. Maybe for business or perhaps pleasure. Having just completed a trip to Europe, here are a few tips gleaned from the experience. While passengers on the international legs of a flight will have completed a COVID-19 test and […]
You hear the question from friends, family and colleagues. “How crazy is the market right now?” The last couple of years have constituted an interesting time for all types of investments, whether that’s bonds, cryptocurrency, equities or real estate. Each investment vehicle has presented its own changes, challenges and opportunities while creating different environments for […]
As Mesa County continues to see community spread of COVID-19, it’s doubly important to protect yourself from the spread of germs as seasons change and the weather cools. From dropping temperatures to leaves turning from green to yellow, September is a month of change in the Grand Valley. At Mesa County Public Health, September is […]
As many readers know, I usually have no problem writing whatever’s on my mind. I also use hackneyed humor, slathering sarcasm and honed hypocrisy in my columns. Oh, I occasionally use alliteration. And I always use sets of three in sentences. I read somewhere threes work best when using examples to make a point, stress […]
“Within a frame of transformation, the edges of the energy system begin to soften and meld into other notions of property, beyond private resource ownership and toward conceptions of shared management and control,” said Shalanda Baker, the law professor on leave from Northeastern University and nominee to become director of the Office of Minority Economic […]