The McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area marked its 10th anniversary this year. Reaching the decade milestone offers a sign of stability and of an effort that’s healthy and moving forward. Such is apparently the case for the 123,000 acres designated for public use west of the Colorado National Monument and east of the Utah border. […]
A restaurant in a Grand Junction hotel has abruptly closed shortly after reopening under new managers. Richard Tally, owner of the Quality Inn, announced the closure of Good Pastures Restaurant after a short-lived lease arrangement with Raul and Cathy Wolf, who left without notice. The Tally family, which owns the Quality Inn as well as […]
There’s no business quite like the snow business. Powderhorn has cleared its slopes of brush, installed new features in its terrain parks and introduced new pricing packages — all in an effort to bring more skiers and snowboarders to the Grand Mesa resort east of Grand Junction. The ultimate success of the ski season, though, […]
Dennis Simpson supports efforts to replace aging police and fire department facilities in Grand Junction, but questions why city voters didn’t get a say in financing a $35 million public safety project. In authorizing an arrangement to lease new and remodeled buildings and pay for them through what are called certificates of participation, the Grand […]
The City of Grand Junction continues to report upswings in sales and use taxcollections even as it prepares to trim spending for a third consecutive year. For reportsfiled in October, representing consumer spending for the month of September, the citycollected $4.17 million in sales and use taxes. That’s a 12.08 percent increase over thereports for […]
Real estate activity slowed in Mesa County during November compared to both the previous month as well as the same month last year. Nonetheless, one industry observer said some pockets of the market remain busy and he’s optimistic 2011 will be a better year. According to numbers compiled by Annette Miller, senior vice president of […]
The process of hiring a new Mesa County administrator could repeat a chain of events that revealed disagreement among the county commissioners and the withdrawal of a tentative offer to a finalist for the position. But commissioners tell the Grand Valley Business Times the search for a new administrator also could take a different path […]
There’s no business quite like the snow business. Powderhorn has cleared its slopes of brush, installed new features in its terrain parks and introduced new pricing packages — all in an effort to bring more skiers and snowboarders to the Grand Mesa resort east of Grand Junction. The ultimate success of the ski season, though, […]
U.S. payrolls edged up in November — but so did the unemployment rate. According to the latest estimates from the Department of Commerce, nonfarm payrolls rose 39,000 and the jobless rate rose two-tenths to 9.8 percent. The latest numbers reflect ongoing weakness in the U.S. labor market even compared to the sluggish job growth that […]
A monthly index tracking business conditions in Colorado has advanced for a second straight month in part because of growth in the energy industry. The Business Conditions Index edged upward four-tenths to 53.7 for November. The consecutive gains for the index were the first since a three-month string of increases between September and November 2009 […]