Tim Harty, The Business Times After the original concept of a pizza restaurant and brewery turned into more of a bar/nightclub, and the dancing turned toward country line dancing on weekends, then pretty much country every night, Mama Ree’s is taking the next step in its evolution: No more pizza. Gone is a linchpin-turned-vestige of […]
Tim Harty, The Business Times The COVID-19 pandemic stopped a lot of people from doing a lot of things in 2020 and 2021, but golf wasn’t one of them. Because golfers are outdoors, making it easy to stay six feet away from people, the Grand Valley’s golf courses got the blessing of the Mesa County […]
City of Grand Junction, Bruin Waste Management target mid-2026 for recycling-sorting center to be ready Tim Harty, The Business Times Their motivation is different, but their conclusion is the same. The City of Grand Junction and Bruin Waste Management agree Grand Junction needs a center to sort materials for recycling. And the discovery of their […]
They have 40 taps for you to pour your own beer. Or wine. Or mixed-drinks. But mostly beer. And what pairs better with beer than pizza? Don’t think too hard about that one. Just say nothing pairs better with beer than pizza, and let’s move on. Palisade Pizza & PourHouse, which opened March 1 and […]
Tim Harty, The Business Times RonSon Roll Offs started as a roll-off-dumpster business in late spring 2020. A couple years later it added trash hauling. Humpty Dumpsters Rentals started as a roll-off-dumpster business in April 2020. Three years later it added trash hauling. Big Foot Waste Solutions started as a roll-off-dumpster business in January 2022. […]
Tim Harty, The Business Times In late January the Colorado Beverage Coalition announced Colorado “lost” 41 craft-beer breweries, taprooms and brewpubs in 2024. When The Business Times asked for the list of the businesses that closed, the number climbed to 44. Regardless, after 35 closures of Colorado craft-beer breweries, taprooms or brewpubs in 2023, the […]
Museums of Western Colorado board sought a ‘great’ executive director to rev up revenues Tim Harty, The Business Times The Museums of Western Colorado have targeted $1.849 million for total revenues this year, and that’s an ambitious number. The nonprofit organization’s Internal Revenue Service Form 990s from recent years show why, as the total revenues […]
Tim Harty, The Business Times Colorado District 7 Sen. Janice Rich calls it a bad bill. A couple of Grand Junction firearms retailers agree and say its passage could be disastrous to their stores’ bottom lines. Democrat-sponsored SB25-003, which passed in the Colorado Senate last week and now is making its way through the Colorado […]
BY TIM HARTY When David and Patty Deters decided to finally move their business out of their Grand Junction home and into an actual store, they knew they needed to do it. The owners of Ambassador Blind N’ Shutter Inc. got by for about 18 years at home, but they couldn’t store all of their […]
Sweet Coloradough, now open three days a week, strives to make great doughnuts and doesn’t apologize for the cost Tim Harty, The Business Times Sweet Coloradough’s doughnuts are hand-crafted. Nothing is automated. And it isn’t a minimum-wage shop. Employees are paid at least $25 per hour, and with that compensation comes an expectation of quality […]