Phil Castle, The Business Times Tim Haggerty recognizes the potential connections among Grand Valley businesses, a program offering financing for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects and companies providing energy services. “I just see so many things that could start coming together. It could end up being a win-win,” said Haggerty, co-owner of Haggerty Brothers […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Construction is expected to begin next year on community halls in Clifton and De Beque, the first of four such facilities planned in Mesa County. The community halls will not only offer venues for classes, meetings and other events, but also fulfill a nearly 40-year-old promise to voters who approved […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Steve Ela estimates he lost half the peach trees on his family farming operation near Hotchkiss to an October freeze. Ray Moore figures he lost in one week in 2020 about 80 percent of the customers for bison from his Rock River Ranches operation when the COVID-19 pandemic and related […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times The Mesa County unemployment rate jumped in June as high school and college graduates joined the work force. At the same time, business struggled to fill job openings as one measure of labor demand increased to record levels “The demand is huge right now for jobs,” said Curtis Englehart, director […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Tyler Dahl enjoys working in the banking industry. He enjoys even more working for a particular bank, the one he joined after graduating from college and subsequently has served in a succession of positions. “The biggest thing is the company.” Dahl doesn’t expect any of that to change in his […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Tony Gagliardi gives average marks to the Colorado Legislature and the results of its latest session for small businesses in the state. “It was a C to a C-minus session,” said Gagliardi, the state director of the National Federation of Independent Business. The small business advocacy group represents 350,000 members […]
It’s time to revisit a favorite subject of mine: news releases. More specifically, it’s time to beg again for local news releases and the opportunity they afford to share more information with readers. I swear, there are occasions when I feel like less like a newspaper editor and more like the orphan Oliver Twist in […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Real estate activity continues to increase in Mesa County, topping $1 billion in sales in the first half of 2021. Robert Bray, for one, expects the trend to continue in the second half. “I still feel good about the remainder of the year,” said Bray, chief executive officer of Bray […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Richard and Jean Tally have long maintained a relationship with Stephen Smith, one that’s changed the wine industry in the Grand Valley. Smith, an industry pioneer who at one time owned the largest wine grape-growing operation in Colorado, encouraged the Tallys to open a hotel in the midst of the […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Robert Bray counts three boom and bust cycles in Mesa County since his grandparents started his family’s real estate business 75 years ago. Competitors have come and gone. Technology and the ways real estate is bought and sold have evolved. What hasn’t changed over three quarters of a century, Bray […]