After weathering adversity, Twisted B’s Soda & Teas soon will operate inside Pinspiration store Tim Harty, The Business Times This spring brought the high of getting a food trailer and what it would allow Twisted B’s Soda and Teas owner Beth Dobyns to do with her new business. Two-and-a-half weeks later, an accident totaled the […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times A new City of Grand Junction task force is taking a closer look at how the community can produce lower-priced, market-rate homes and increase housing inventory. During its first two meetings, the Housing Affordability Task Force defined its roles, elected a chair and vice chair, and began identifying top priorities. […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times The Mesa County Landfill has become the first site in Colorado to test a new technology that automatically monitors and adjusts landfill methane gas wellheads. Developed by Grand Valley Instrumentation of Grand Junction, the Meerkat Monitoring System takes hourly samples, balances wellfield pressure in real time and promises to boost […]
Tax credits abound when donating to Contribution Projects EDITOR’S NOTE: 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 Sept. […]
The District 51 Foundation announced its 16th round of Professional Learning Grant award recipients, awarding $10,096.60 in grants to train 126 Mesa County Valley School District 51 staff members. The foundation received grant requests totaling more than $43,000. Since 2018, the D51 Foundation has donated more than $170,000 to 590 District 51 staff members for […]
Tim Harty, The Business Times It took about five years to come to fruition, but HDR, a professional services firm in the architecture, engineering and construction industry, finally has an office in Grand Junction. To help spread the word, HDR hosted an open house Sept. 4 to welcome local agencies and other members of the […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times In its inaugural year, the Spark Summit brought national-level insight and hands-on leadership training to Grand Junction without the travel or expense of a big-city business and leadership conference. Rather than relying on theory, organizers Robert Beaver and Kristin Donahue designed the day as a “working summit,” where business owners, […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times At the Sept. 24 Spark Summit Business and Leadership conference, a breakout session in Room 213 at the Colorado Mesa University Center walked owners through what to do before, during and after a sale of their businesses. The panel featured high-level brokers and professionals that work with businesses throughout the […]
Local experts explain various ways to back up power in your home Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times When storms, wildfires or other threats to the power grid hit Mesa County, households can quickly find themselves in the dark. That was the case during multiple outages in the Redlands this August, which sparked local questions about […]
The 44th annual Parade of Homes, presented by the Housing and Building Association of Western Colorado and Fairway Mortgage, takes place during the next two weekends: Sept. 26-28 and Oct. 3-5. The self-guided Parade of Homes tour features 17 homes from 16 different Mesa County builders. The homes will be open from 10 a.m. to […]