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CSBJ’s Best Of Business competition is back! Vote for the competition is now open. Readers can vote thier favorite businesses in 75 categories. Voting closes 5 p.m. May 31. Results will be announced during the Best Of Business reception, 4:30 -6:30 p.m. June 27 at the Ivywild School. Nearly all of the Best Of Business [...]

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Neumann Systems Group is attempting to bounce back from a year of bad publicity and political wrangling about the company’s contract with Colorado Springs Utilities. The Springs company has submitted a proposal for an $18.75 million grant to the Department of Energy and the National Energy Technology Laboratory for a carbon capture technology that will [...]

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A California real estate investment company has purchased the largest apartment complex in downtown Colorado Springs. The 200-unit Palmer Park Apartments at 1304 San Miguel St. was built in 1949. California investment company LocalConstruct bought the property for an undisclosed amount, according to a release from Apartment Realty Advisors, which brokered the deal for the [...]

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‘Best Of Business’ competition returns

The Colorado Springs Business Journal is proud to announce the return of its Best Of Business competition in 2013. What is the best accounting firm in town? Which is the best bank? The best hospital? Restaurant? CSBJ readers are able to vote in 75 categories about what businesses they think should be crowned as the [...]

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Ignite event turns newsworthy

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Most of the 300 or so people attending the first Ignite Colorado Springs event Tuesday night came out of curiosity, not knowing for sure what to expect in the local rendition of what has become a global phenomenon. Five minutes per speaker, with slide show, 15 seconds per slide. Make your pitch, tell your story [...]

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Tony’s building a bigger bar on the block

To keep up with demand, Tony’s Bar is moving into a bigger space across the street, the former location of Compleat Games and Hobbies, 326 N. Tejon St. Tony’s opened at its current location in 1999, and the 2,300 square-foot space had always provided enough room for the big weekend and late-night crowds. But elbow [...]

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Incoming tide – Part 2: Flash floods might make region forget 1999

Editor’s note: Last week, CSBJ writer John Hazlehurst began a three-part series on the history of flooding in the region and the ominous outlook after the Waldo Canyon fire. Part 1 focused on the historic 1935 flood, which killed 18, and Part 2 this week looks at the rising danger of flash floods even worse [...]

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Allow me to paint a picture. Imagine tens of thousands of people lounging together on a lawn of green grass. Looking closer, you notice an entire family — three generations — making their way with an overstuffed picnic basket. The youngest child stops to study a dandelion. Late afternoon clouds disperse and as the sunlight [...]

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One hundred years from now, when cultural histories of this era are written, entire chapters will be devoted to the effects on society of the 24-hour news cycle and the 24/7 Internet. In the investing world, this media bandwidth has provided a forum for a generation of gurus who tell us what we should do [...]

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