Phil Castle, The Business Times In terms of local sales and use tax collections, 2016 likely will end up more like 2014 than 2015. Collections for the City of Grand Junction and Mesa County continue to lag and, barring a surge over the next two months, will remain below year-end totals for 2015. City and […]
Colorado payrolls should continue to grow at a modest pace, according to the latest results of a quarterly analysis of business filings in the state. “This data confirms that Colorado is likely to see continued moderate employment growth into 2017,” said Richard Wobbekind, executive director of the business research division of the Leeds School of […]
Internet services with speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second are now available to more than 700 Grand Valley businesses as part of efforts by CenturyLink to serve tenants in commercial buildings across Colorado. CenturyLink announced that high-speed Internet access is available to more than 21,000 businesses in buildings across the state, including a […]
A new vice president who oversees Western Colorado Community College in Grand Junction hopes to make the institution synonymous with work force training. “My goal is to have people see WCCC as their go to for work force training,” said Dennis Bailey-Fougnier, vice president of community college affairs for Colorado Mesa University. WCCC offers resources […]
The national championship of a competition testing the fitness of archery hunters is expected to come to Powderhorn Mountain Resort next summer. The resort on Grand Mesa east of Grand Junction also will host a regional qualifying event. The Greater Grand Junction Sports Commission joined with Powderhorn Mountain Resort in bringing Train to Hunt events […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Faced with the prospect of reduced hours or even losing her job as a safety specialist in the energy industry, Shannon Key decided instead to start her own business. That choice has worked out well so far, Key said, as she taps her training and experience to offer services to […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times While the number of loans issued in Mesa County under two federally backed small business programs held steady during the last fiscal year, the collective dollar volume of those loans dropped by more than half. According to the Colorado District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration, a total of […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Janet Gardner traces her natural curiosity to a childhood growing up in the Grand Valley and time spent outdoors camping, hiking and exploring. “I was always the kid who was flipping over the rocks to see what was there.” Further inspired by the National Geographic and Jacques Cousteau specials she […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times The Mesa County real estate market appears to be firing on all cylinders with year-to-date gains in sales, dollar volume, inventories, prices and new home construction. In fact, the market is the midst of its best year since the recession, said Robert Bray, chief executive officer of Bray Real Estate […]
Payrolls continue to grow in the United States and, along with them, hourly wages. Nonfarm payrolls increased 161,000 in October. Average hourly earnings rose 10 cents to $25.92, bringing the gain over the past year to 2.8 percent. That’s the strongest annual wage growth since June 2009. The unemployment rate edged down a tenth of […]