After 4 decades of selling health insurance, Randy Pifer retires from Active Insurance Solutions Tim Harty, The Business Times Randy Pifer has had a foot out the door the past few years at Active Insurance Solutions, where he has worked the past 40 years, owning it for the first 39 of those years. Retirement loomed, […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times The Grand Junction Planning Commission voted Dec. 23 to recommend approval of three zoning and development code amendments, including a proposal to eliminate the city’s mandatory pre-application meeting requirement from the zoning code. City staff framed the pre-application change as a procedural cleanup rather than a substantive change to development […]
Elevate Jiu Jitsu takes down stereotypes with clean, modern facility Tim Harty, The Business Times Enter without sunglasses at your own peril. When you step inside Elevate Jiu Jitsu Academy, it’s bright and white with walls of windows welcoming daylight. And it’s oh so clean. That’s intentional. Elevate Jiu Jitsu co-owner Shawn Montgomery knows the […]
Yoshi Sushi’s owner coveted the spot where Kuniko’s restaurant previously resided Tim Harty, The Business Times When the owners of Kuniko’s Teriyaki Grill retired and closed the restaurant in mid-June, Nawl Za Hmung seized the opportunity to lease the space at 2695 Patterson Road, Suite 11, in Village Fair Plaza. He said he had that […]
Mesa County Public Health said in a Dec. 22 news release that flu activity in the county increased significantly in mid-December. Since Oct. 1, there have been 36 flu-related hospitalizations, and during the same period in 2024, there were 12 flu hospitalizations, the news release said. Mesa County Public Health has investigated nine respiratory-illness outbreaks […]
Tim Harty, The Business Times ANB Bank Regional President for Western Colorado Vance Wagner asked the question, so he could answer it: Do you know anyone who sat on a board of directors for a business for 32 years? Wagner said most people would be hard-pressed to name one, but, of course, he knows one: […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times Mesa County Valley School District 51 is launching a new districtwide communication platform, ParentSquare, a move the district describes as an effort to simplify how schools communicate with families and improve consistency, access and engagement across the district. Beginning in January, ParentSquare will become the district’s primary communication tool, replacing […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times The Grand Junction City Council agreed during its Dec. 15 workshop to adopt revisions to the city’s parks and recreation impact fees after additional analysis and extended discussion about housing affordability, legal defensibility and how the city should fund park infrastructure as it grows. The decision follows a request from […]
Pinball machines and retro video games have become big part of Phone Medic’s business in mall A person interested in playing a variety of pinball machines in Grand Junction would likely look to bars and arcades (good luck finding the latter). And Pinball Map’s website, pinballmap.com, yields the names of bars Wrigley Field Sports Bar […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times Members of the City of Grand Junction’s Housing Affordability Task Force are asking the city to begin evaluating the cost impacts of major building and development code changes before they are adopted. The task force said affordability goals cannot be met without understanding how regulations affect housing prices. The request […]