Naomi Shepherd-Smith recalls a time when the fledgling Colorado wine industry was something of a novelty and some tourists were more interested in taking home a bottle with a Colorado label than drinking what was inside. But like the fine wines its produces, the industry since has matured, says Shepherd-Smith, manager and co-owner of Grande […]
Last year was nothing to write home about for the home building industry in the Grand Valley, but it looks good compared to this year. “The recovery is being delayed,” says Annette Miller, who, as senior vice president of Heritage Title Co. in Grand Junction tracks the real estate industry. “I see it being pushed […]
One measure of the growing wine industry in Colorado is the number of wineries featured at the Colorado Mountain Winefest. This year, 56 wineries plan to participant, the most ever in the 19-year history of the event. That makes the upcoming festival a bigger celebration by yet another standard, says Sarah Catlin, executive director of […]
Ed Kashmarek draws a distinction in his latest economic prognosis between Grand Junction and the rest of Colorado. Grand Junction likely will lag behind other areas in what’s forecast as a recovery that ultimately will make the state a regional economic leader. While the energy industry is expected to rebound, high unemployment levels are expected […]
Colorado banks caught in a tug of war between politicians calling for increased lending and regulators curtailing lending face additional struggles under financial reform legislation, according to the president of an industry association. “We do feel caught in the middle on a lot of this stuff,” said Don Childears, president of the Colorado Bankers Association […]
To the casual observer, the commercial real estate market in the Grand Valley offers a contrast in extremes. In the midst of signs advertising open retail, office and industrial space are the sights and sounds of construction workers and machinery building structures on 24 Road, in the Rimrock Marketplace and on the Mesa State College […]