Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times Grand Junction is beginning to build enough housing to keep pace with population growth, much of it driven by in-migration, according to a draft regional-housing-needs assessment. But the report presented to the Grand Junction City Council on May 25 says simply matching new growth will not immediately restore affordability, because […]
Hardware, farming and ranching equipment store Western Implement announced it will be doing a major renovation of its Grand Junction location, 2919 North Ave., beginning this summer. According to a May 28 news release from Western Implement, the project will refresh and modernize the showroom and expand display space to better serve customers across western […]
Bananas Fun Park recently completed updates to its entrance and other items on the property, adding lots of palm trees and planters, and some of it is best viewed at night, such as the facade of the main building. The reason for doing it, according to Bananas Fun Park owner Chris Burns, was a matter […]
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 […]