Elevate Jiu Jitsu takes down stereotypes with clean, modern facility Tim Harty, The Business Times Enter without sunglasses at your own peril. When you step inside Elevate Jiu Jitsu Academy, it’s bright and white with walls of windows welcoming daylight. And it’s oh so clean. That’s intentional. Elevate Jiu Jitsu co-owner Shawn Montgomery knows the […]
Pinball machines and retro video games have become big part of Phone Medic’s business in mall A person interested in playing a variety of pinball machines in Grand Junction would likely look to bars and arcades (good luck finding the latter). And Pinball Map’s website, pinballmap.com, yields the names of bars Wrigley Field Sports Bar […]
The Social Swing looks to enhance events with its mobile golf simulator Tim Harty, The Business Times For those who think any large social gathering would be better with a golf simulator, Nic and Tegan Hansen understand. The former college athletes – Tegan played softball at Colorado Mesa University, and Nic played baseball at Metro […]
The deep-dish pizza restaurant will operate out of food truck until new building at Las Colonias is ready Tim Harty, The Business Times Junct’n Square Pizza, a fixture of downtown Grand Junction dining for nearly 50 years, has been sold and will move to a new location next to OakStar Bank in the Riverfront at […]
CanvaScape bid adieu to Mesa Mall, seeks permanence in downtown GJ Tim Harty, The Business Times Ray Kinnick knows from experience that people rarely understand what he means when he says his business, CanvaScape, prints people’s personal photos on stone. “No one really knows what you’re talking about,” said Kinnick, who also prints photos on […]
Profuels of Fruita renovated front of the building and opened a convenience store where it sells premium diesel and ethanol-free fuels Tim Harty, The Business Times When Kriss Bergethon and Alex Moore bought the property at 221 U.S. Highway 6&50 in Fruita in April, they knew what they were getting. First and foremost, in the […]
Store is using half of Mesa Mall unit that formerly housed Joann, will close and do complete remodel in Q1 2026 By Tim Harty, The Business Times Amanda Russo lives in Moab and makes regular shopping trips to Grand Junction. So, when she needed to bring her car to Grand Junction to be serviced on […]
Mesa Mall has a handful of new stores available for Christmas shopping this year Tim Harty, The Business Times For Mesa Mall’s new owner and a handful of tenants, 2025 marks their first holiday shopping season at the mall. CBL Properties, which bought Mesa Mall from Washington Prime Group on July 29, enters the season […]
Pinon Kitchen needed to move its sourdough bread and pastry sales indoors and found several coffee shops happy to oblige Tim Harty, The Business Times The late-summer end of the farmers market season brought some uncertainty as Caitlin Loncarich looked ahead to the first autumn for her De Beque-based microbakery, Pinon Kitchen. She needed to […]
Couple’s chance encounter with Mary’s Mountain Cookies led them to open their own such store in Fruita Tim Harty, The Business Times Justin Adis doesn’t eat sugar. He’s middle-aged, physically fit and wants to stay that way. But Adis can make an exception every once in a great while, like he did in June when […]