The City of Grand Junction will host the fourth annual Water Lights at Night on Oct. 11 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Butterfly Pond at Las Colonias Park. Admission is free. “Water lanterns have been used in many different cultures for thousands of years, and their meaning can be a very personal one,” […]
The Grand Junction Regional Airport was awarded a $38 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Improvement Program to fund the first phase of pavement construction for a new primary runway, the airport said in a news release. With this grant, the airport has been awarded more than $53 million in AIP grant funding […]
Hawaii Street Food brings its trailer to GJ – to stay Tim Harty, The Business Times Cue Johnny Cash’s “I’ve Been Everywhere” to play in the background before you ask Dante Tripi, a chef who is French classically trained, to list the cities where he has worked in fine-dining restaurants during the past 20-25 years. […]
After weathering adversity, Twisted B’s Soda & Teas soon will operate inside Pinspiration store Tim Harty, The Business Times This spring brought the high of getting a food trailer and what it would allow Twisted B’s Soda and Teas owner Beth Dobyns to do with her new business. Two-and-a-half weeks later, an accident totaled the […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times A new City of Grand Junction task force is taking a closer look at how the community can produce lower-priced, market-rate homes and increase housing inventory. During its first two meetings, the Housing Affordability Task Force defined its roles, elected a chair and vice chair, and began identifying top priorities. […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times The Mesa County Landfill has become the first site in Colorado to test a new technology that automatically monitors and adjusts landfill methane gas wellheads. Developed by Grand Valley Instrumentation of Grand Junction, the Meerkat Monitoring System takes hourly samples, balances wellfield pressure in real time and promises to boost […]
Tax credits abound when donating to Contribution Projects EDITOR’S NOTE: Sometimes, for various reasons, The Business Times isn’t able to print everything it wanted to present in a story. When that happens and we feel the need to provide what the original story was missing, we’ll bring you “More to the Story.” In the Sept. […]
The District 51 Foundation announced its 16th round of Professional Learning Grant award recipients, awarding $10,096.60 in grants to train 126 Mesa County Valley School District 51 staff members. The foundation received grant requests totaling more than $43,000. Since 2018, the D51 Foundation has donated more than $170,000 to 590 District 51 staff members for […]
Tim Harty, The Business Times It took about five years to come to fruition, but HDR, a professional services firm in the architecture, engineering and construction industry, finally has an office in Grand Junction. To help spread the word, HDR hosted an open house Sept. 4 to welcome local agencies and other members of the […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times In its inaugural year, the Spark Summit brought national-level insight and hands-on leadership training to Grand Junction without the travel or expense of a big-city business and leadership conference. Rather than relying on theory, organizers Robert Beaver and Kristin Donahue designed the day as a “working summit,” where business owners, […]