A Colorado State University research facility and peach farm in the Grand Valley are among the winners of the latest grants for projects that demonstrate the benefits of producing solar energy and food from the same parcel of land. The CSU Caspari Lab will assess the effects of agrivoltaics on grape yield, fruit quality and […]
Officials at Colorado Mesa University based in Grand Junction plan to expand a financial support program to include all of Colorado while also increasing eligibility to include more students from low-income and first-generation families. The CMU board of trustees expanded what’s dubbed as the CMU Promise to cover the tuition of students not only from […]
A man who’s worked a decade as Fruita city manager was selected as a finalist to become the next Grand Junction city manager. The Grand Junction City Council announced the selection of Mike Bennett as a finalist for the position, concluding a national search that produced two finalists. Fourteen days must elapse before a formal […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Craig Hall has endured a succession of financial and personal challenges over his 24-year tenure as owner and publisher of the Business Times. The terrorist attacks in 2001, the financial crisis in 2008 and especially the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 affected advertising sales and revenue for the Grand Junction business […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times When Nathan Perry examines the statistical picture of the Mesa County economy, he sees slowing labor and real estate markets as well as what could be decreased consumer spending. While Mesa County was once isolated from the trends affecting the United States economy, that’s no longer the case. “The Mesa […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times The unemployment rate retreated in Mesa County in August following three consecutive months of gains. The jobless rate also edged down in Grand Junction. The seasonally unadjusted jobless rate for Mesa County fell two-tenths of a point to 4.4 percent. The unemployment rate slipped a tenth of a point to […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Chris Bonds held in a gloved hand the end result of a long process of freezing and sawing. The cube sparkled under the fluorescent lights like a diamond. A very big diamond. Bonds eyed the cube through his safety goggles and smiled. It was just the right size and flawlessly […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Randy Roman brings to his chiropractic practice the same exuberance he exhibited when he opened his Grand Junction office nearly 25 years ago. In that intervening span, Roman Family Chiropractic moved from a cramped space on Seventh Street to a spacious facility on Patterson Road. Staffing increased from Roman and […]
A groundbreaking ceremony was scheduled to celebrate the construction of a new bank building in a riverfront business park in Grand Junction. The ceremony was set for Sept. 10 shortly after the press deadline for the Business Times. OakStar Bank plans to build a 12,000-square-foot building at the Riverfront at Las Colonias development. The building […]
What started out as an idea conceived by a Grand Valley rancher became a reality when locally sourced beef was provided to Mesa County School District 51 and then served to students. “From the onset, this has been a collaboration between the school district and our local ranchers, 10 of whom ended up participating in […]