Mathieu Victoire, co-owner of French bakery and restaurant Bistro 317 in downtown Grand Junction, pulled out the invoices from 2024 that showed exactly what he saw happen to chocolate prices in 2024. Around Valentine’s Day last year, Bistro 317 paid $209 for a tablet (an 11-pound rectangle) of chocolate from vendor Dawn Food Products Inc. […]
At first blush, the resumption of solar-cell manufacturing in the United States during the third quarter last year doesn’t sound like a big deal. But when you shine a little light on it and take a closer look, it means more U.S.-manufactured parts are getting put into solar arrays. And when enough of an array’s […]
Tim Harty, The Business Times Too many times over too many years, Rachel Armour said she’s heard people suggest the finer things found in major metro areas aren’t meant to be in Grand Junction. She’s tired of hearing, “Oh, it’s just Junction,” and it has to settle for less. “Our kids, our community deserve nice […]
Legacy Furniture moved into its store in mid-December, giving it room to do more custom woodworking Hazen Hackett smiled and chuckled before he answered the question about how much experience he had with woodworking before opening a business that does custom woodworking. “None,” he said. OK, no prior work experience, but certainly the 32-year-old former […]
Local coffee businesses hope they won’t have to raise their prices It’s a little bit of a lot of things driving up the cost of the coffee beans used to make your morning cup of joe, shot of espresso or triple-shot latte. Among the perceived culprits are: droughts in countries that are the largest […]
Cody Kennedy: The numbers are in: Fourth and Fifth Streets are less safe. In just four months since the redesign, we’ve seen a sharp increase in bike crashes, with three of six post-redesign incidents involving cyclists, one directly tied to the new design. Yet the city’s report paints the project as a success, citing reduced […]
Tim Harty, The Business Times April 15 gets circled on most calendars as the annual deadline to file taxes for individuals and many businesses. In Grand Junction next year, April 15 will be marked by a few downtown business owners for a celebration as they say farewell to a neighbor they didn’t like much: the […]
Tim Harty, The Business Times Road construction, while in the works, is a necessary nuisance begrudgingly tolerated by the people affected the most by it. In the end the resulting nicer streets and highways tend to be worth the temporary inconvenience. But when the project is a large one, challenging the meaning of temporary and […]
Prescient, Mike Searcy is. Textbook prescient. Put-his-photo-next-to-the-word-in-the-dictionary prescient. When he saw the lot at 383 29 Road soon after declining to pursue another lot that someone had told him would be “the best place to put a Munchies” restaurant, Searcy knew he was looking at the actual “best place.” On that lot immediately to the […]
By Craig Hall, The Business Times John Kelley’s passion for dance has been front and center no matter where life has taken him in education, marriage, parenthood or career. “No matter what I’m doing or where I am in life, dance has always been an important part of it from being a part of […]