ELSWR looks to be your go-to shop for tattoos, fine art and socializing Tim Harty, The Business Times Walk in the front door, look to your left, and a wall of paintings done by Garrett Mallekoote will literally stare back at you. Most of his work on display has faces and eyes, such as as […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times The Grand Junction City Council voted unanimously on May 20 to loosen zoning rules for drive-through businesses after developers, engineers and commercial real estate representatives argued the city’s existing code made some projects difficult or impossible to build. The amendment removes portions of the city’s zoning and development code that […]
Palisade orchards largely escaped freeze damage that hit some other Western Slope fruit producers Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times After parts of the Western Slope faced an unusually warm early spring followed by late frosts in some areas, some orchard owners in Palisade say customers were left with the wrong impression about the region’s signature […]
Mesa County Public Health announced Dr. Kathryn Spangler will be its new medical director, effective June 1. Spangler is a hospitalist at Intermountain Health St. Mary’s Regional Hospital, where she has worked the past seven years. Mesa County Public Health said in a news release that Spangler’s leadership roles included the associate chief hospitalist and […]
Western Colorado Hearing Clinic is hosting Lenire Week, June 1–5, in Grand Junction and Glenwood Springs to educate patients about tinnitus and introduce Lenire, the first and only FDA-approved treatment designed to reduce tinnitus symptoms. As part of the weeklong event, Dr. Ross O’Neill, founder and inventor of Lenire, will be a special guest speaker […]
The Business Incubator Center, administrator of the Mesa County Enterprise Zone, announced Downtown Grand Junction has officially been reinstated into the Mesa County Enterprise Zone following approval of a boundary amendment by the Colorado Economic Development Commission. According to a news release from the Business Incubator Center, the amendment restores Census Tract 3 to Enterprise […]
Grand Valley Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Mesa Fitness foresee mutually beneficial relationship in Clifton Tim Harty, The Business Times Kevin Lewis said it wasn’t that long ago that he thought the way for Grand Valley Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai to grow was to buy a huge, state-of-the-art building. He looked into it and […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times The City of Grand Junction says approximately $19 million in direct city funding and grants has leveraged an additional roughly $43 million in outside-partner investment tied to housing and homelessness projects since 2022. According to the city’s funding breakdown, direct city funding and grants included: $5,043,495 for Grand Junction Housing […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times Since 2022, Grand Junction has seen more than $62 million invested in subsidized housing and homelessness-related initiatives through a combination of city funding and partner investment. During a May 4 workshop, city officials also said roughly $460,000 in taxpayer dollars had been spent cleaning up homeless encampments along the river […]
Sometimes, for various reasons, The Business Times isn’t able to print everything it wanted to present in a story. When that happens and we feel the need to provide what the original story was missing, we’ll bring you “More to the Story.” In the May 6 edition’s story about Intermountain Health’s plans to build […]