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 […]
The pilot projects in place in 4th and 5th Streets, and the planned one for 7th Street continue to cause concern and hassles for businesses and citizens. When it comes to the pilot projects on 4th and 5th Streets, and the plan in the works for another on 7th Street, the citizens of Grand Junction […]
Cassie Mitchell, CEO of HopeWest, will return to her home state of Kentucky in early 2025 after a successful two-and-a-half-year tenure with the nonprofit hospice and palliative care organization. Mitchell, a registered nurse, began her nearly 25-year career in hospice care after working in a Kentucky emergency room, where her compassion for elderly and special-care […]
When Jay D. Muller finally made the decision to move the Grand Valley Equine Assisted Learning Center (GVEALC) from its home of six and a half years at Reimer’s Rainbow Ranch, he couldn’t believe his timing. First was the fact the property was available, and more difficult second, because COVID 19 hit before the official […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times When Nathan Perry examines the statistical picture of the Mesa County economy, he sees slowing labor and real estate markets as well as what could be decreased consumer spending. While Mesa County was once isolated from the trends affecting the United States economy, that’s no longer the case. “The Mesa […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Chris Bonds held in a gloved hand the end result of a long process of freezing and sawing. The cube sparkled under the fluorescent lights like a diamond. A very big diamond. Bonds eyed the cube through his safety goggles and smiled. It was just the right size and flawlessly […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Mandy DeCino knows what it’s like for entrepreneurs starting out and not knowing what they don’t know about launching businesses. That’s because she’s been in that same place. “You jump,” DeCino says. “You leap before you really know what’s there.” There’s an alternative, though. One DeCino says she’s committed to […]