Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times Why was GJ Auto Sales selected as the site for the Colorado Department of Transportation’s Downtown Grand Junction Mobility Hub when other nearby options existed, including city and county-owned land? Neither CDOT nor the City of Grand Junction has answered that question, despite multiple requests by The Business Times. However, […]
United Way of Mesa County is expanding its United to Solve Homelessness initiative through a three-pronged approach to address the growing needs of the unhoused population and the community at large. The expansion includes the launch of a centralized homelessness hotline, a new mobile outreach van, and the release of the 2025 ALICE Report (Asset […]
Tim Harty, The Business Times You can find ColoradoCool Apparel’s T-shirts, hoodies, ball caps, beanies, stickers, magnets, tapestries and posters in more than 200 stores in Colorado. Plus, ColoradoCool leases 10-foot-by-10-foot consignment booths inside seven stores inside malls on the Front Range. That’s pretty good growth for a Grand Junction-based wholesale company that CEO and […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times Plans to finalize protected bike lanes on Fourth and Fifth Streets this summer could cost the City of Grand Junction additional money in curb cut work and remove more downtown parking spaces. That raises a broader conversation about the cost of implementation and the city’s downtown parking system, including the […]
Tim Harty, The Business Times Seeking permanence and a place where its therapists and clients can thrive led Thrive Marriage & Family Counseling to say good-bye to leasing and hello to owning. Thrive Marriage & Family Counseling’s founder Chantel Landeros bought the building, a 117-year-old house at 827 Grand Ave. in downtown Grand Junction, renovated […]
Teresa Mays put Hedge Company up for sale in October last year, knowing she will retire once her precious-metals brokerage at 225 N. Fifth St., Suite 514, gets sold. That was a tough decision to make, because: She loves the work she does as a bullion broker, selling and buying gold, silver, platinum and palladium […]
Fifteen middle and high school students graduated June 10 from the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce’s Young Entrepreneurs Academy, completing a nine-month journey to build their own real businesses. Among them were Xander Smith and Brielle Nye, two standout students whose business ideas were fueled by family legacy, creativity and personal growth. The graduation […]
Tim Harty, The Business Times As of its June 9 soft opening, Third Bowl Homemade Ice Cream is serving super premium ice cream – 16 flavors, including four dairy-free – in Grand Junction at 1059 North Ave. That likely begs the question: What is super premium? Third Bowl owner and self-professed food-science nerd Kendall Phillips […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times MORE TO THE STORY This article is a follow-up to “CDOT Sells Used Car Dealer a Lemon,” published June 4 in The Business Times. In that story, we reported about CDOT acquiring the GJ Auto Sales property through the threat of eminent domain for a planned mobility hub. This expanded […]
When you learn that Colterris Collections has 4,000 corkscrews on display and think, “Holy cow! That’s a lot of corkscrews,” know this: That isn’t the half of them. It’s not even a quarter of them. That’s just what made the cut. Scott and Theresa High have 14,000 more corkscrews that aren’t on display in the […]