Phil Castle, The Business Times A Western Colorado company that sells houses has established a foundation to help fund programs and projects that address housing-related needs. While Bray Real Estate long has contributed to a variety of philanthropic causes, the Bray Cares Foundation will increase and focus those efforts, said Robert Bray, chief executive officer. […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Doug Sorter leads an impromptu tour through the building, pointing out various features along the way. Specially designed rooms offer places in which to conduct examinations and assessments. Meeting rooms and offices offer spaces for conferring with families. That’s not to mention all the handicap-accessible restrooms or, for that matter, […]
The owners of communications and marketing companies will deliver keynote presentations at an upcoming conference in Grand Junction. Brian Williams, owner of Perspectivity International in Dallas, and Joey Kercher, owner of Air Fresh Marketing in Denver, are among the scheduled speakers at the Initiate Conference. The communications and marketing conference is scheduled for Feb 21 […]
Colorado Mesa University has opened a new facility on its Grand Junction campus designed to foster the collaborative efforts of students as well as local businesses. The center brings together at one, accessible location the Maverick Innovation Center and Cyber Security Center. “As innovation accelerates on campus, the center will add capacity to support the […]
Payrolls swelled in the United States in January despite the longest federal government shutdown in history. Nonfarm payrolls increased 304,000 and the unemployment rate edged up a tenth of a point to 4 percent, according to the latest Labor Department estimates. The partial government shutdown affected estimates in different ways. Federal employees on furlough during […]
New businesses continue to open in Colorado, but at a slower pace, according to the latest analysis of business filings. For the fourth quarter of 2018, 28,473 new entity filings were recorded with the secretary of state’s office, and 134,220 existing entities renewed registrations. “Despite some uncertainty at the national level, the data shows Coloradans […]
A monthly measure of consumer confidence has dropped for a third straight month in part as a response to a temporary government shutdown. The Conference Board reported its Consumer Confidence Index fell 6.4 points to 120.2 in January. The index has dropped more than 16 points from October, when the reading stood at its highest […]
A building materials supplier, the president of an energy company and executive director of an animal shelter have received awards presented by the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce honoring their community service. Whitewater Building Materials was selected Business of the Year. Quint Shear, president of Shear Inc., was named Citizen of the Year. Anna […]
A monthly index forecasting economic conditions in the United States has edged down, signaling what could be slowing growth in the months ahead. The Conference Board reported its Leading Economic Index (LEI) slipped a tenth of a percent to 111.7 in December. Separate measures of current and past conditions increased. The latest indexes incorporate forecasts […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Ten acrylic tanks manufactured in Grand Junction could help answer one of the most fundamental questions ever posed: What’s the universe made of? Reynolds Polymer Technology will provide the tanks for an experiment under construction nearly a mile under the Black Hills of South Dakota. The experiment, scheduled to begin next […]