Overhead Door Company of Grand Junction’s John MacElhaney, left, and David Preuss traded places in the company to start the year as Preuss bought the business from MacElhaney, who will remain with the company at least another year as an employee. If MacElhaney decides to stay a little longer after that, he can hit the […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times The Grand Junction City Council joint meeting on Jan. 14 with stakeholders of the current Impact and Linkage Fee Study stood out for an obvious reason. It’s not something the council has done previously. And that was not lost on the stakeholders, which included representatives of local Realtors, contractors, home […]
By Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times During a Jan. 13 workshop, the Grand Junction City Council considered the pros and cons of amending the city charter via ballot measure and moving its municipal elections to November instead of April. City Council will have a second reading of the proposed ballot measure at the regular Wednesday […]
Legacy Furniture moved into its store in mid-December, giving it room to do more custom woodworking Hazen Hackett smiled and chuckled before he answered the question about how much experience he had with woodworking before opening a business that does custom woodworking. “None,” he said. OK, no prior work experience, but certainly the 32-year-old former […]
Tim Harty, The Business Times The Jan. 1 sale of Ryan/Sawyer Marketing to Julie Hober and Bridgett Gutierrez pushed former owner and business namesake Dan Ryan to the edge of retirement. Before the 65-year-old Ryan fully commits to the plunge into the life of leisure, however, he’ll help his former employees for two months as […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times Plans to replace a 65-year-old stretch of power lines currently running through Kingsview subdivision on the south side of the Colorado River in Fruita have hit a snag. The City of Fruita has denied part of Xcel Energy’s application, specifically the proposal to run overhead power lines through Snooks Bottom […]
Novus Glass needed more space to add a few new services to its repertoire, and it didn’t need to go far to get it. In fact, Novus Glass owner Jay Haralson merely walked a few doors down in the same commercial building at 1048 Independent Ave. to find a new home, one that’s twice as […]
Tim Harty, The Business Times Caleb Umberger is pretty sure diners will notice one thing in particular about the pizzas he and Brooklyn Reuwsaat will be serving at their new restaurant, Trailblazer Pizza Company. “The crust, I’m very proud of it,” he said. “I know I keep saying that, but I am.” Umberger said every […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times At the Grand Junction City Council workshop on Dec. 16, council members Scott Beilfuss and Cody Kennedy brought up concerns about impact fees adding to the cost of single-family homes. This led to discussion about what possible alternatives there are for the city. Beilfuss said, “What I’m getting at is […]
Local coffee businesses hope they won’t have to raise their prices It’s a little bit of a lot of things driving up the cost of the coffee beans used to make your morning cup of joe, shot of espresso or triple-shot latte. Among the perceived culprits are: droughts in countries that are the largest […]