Kelly Sloan, The Business Times A Grand Junction ice skating arena will serve as home for a new Junior League hockey team. The Glacier Ice Arena will bring to the area the Glacier Yetis as a part of the newly formed Rocky Mountain Junior Hockey League. Junior hockey is a step above AA and geared […]
Visitors to the Colorado National Monument near Grand Junction contributed $31 million to the local economy in 2014, according to the latest results of an annual analysis conducted by the National Park Service. The cumulative economic impact of visits to national parks was estimated at $552.1 million in Colorado and $29.7 billion in the United […]
Kelly Sloan, The Business Times Colorado voters could be asked to extend a transportation financing program to fund $3.5 billion in projects across the state, including two major projects in Mesa County. If enacted by the State Legislature, Senate Bill 272 would authorize a November ballot initiative asking voters to extend the Transportation Revenue Anticipation […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Foreign trade zones help businesses take advantage of what’s literally a world of opportunities, according to the president of a national trade association of entities and businesses involved in the federal program. The benefits from deferring, reducing and even eliminating custom duties apply to a foreign trade zone proposed for […]
Four students who’ve come up with a plan to develop a self-erasing whiteboard were the latest winners of an annual elevator pitch competition at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction. Rachael Cavalier, Adam Degemann, Ryan Kawano and Taylor Rucker placed first for their EZ-Clean whiteboard at the event, conducted as part of Entrepreneurship Day at […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times John Hendricks traces the origin of many successful business ventures to the moment when an entrepreneur poses a key question or confronts a problem. Driven by curiosity, passion and obsession, those entrepreneurs answer questions and solve problems in turning their daydreams into reality. For Fred Smith, the founder of Federal […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times A newly formed council will draw on the resources of a national trade association in playing a greater role in energy development in Colorado, according to the leader of the state group. The American Petroleum Institute established the Colorado Petroleum Council at the request of members, but […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times As an economist who’s monitored crude oil prices for 40 years, John Felmy knows from personal experience what goes down must come up. That’s why Felmy believes slumping oil prices that have saved consumers some money at the pump but also forced energy companies to reallocate resources eventually will rebound. […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times The monthly unemployment rate in Mesa County remains unchanged with only a small differences in the latest estimates for the number of people who are employed and those looking for work. Seasonal hiring continues, though. And a slowdown in oil and natural gas development related to low prices has yet […]
Colorado continues to rank among the top 10 states in an annual analysis of the cost of tax systems on entrepreneurship and small businesses. Colorado moved up a spot to eighth in the 2015 Small Business Tax Index prepared by the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council. The council, a small business advocacy and research group […]