Statewide foreclosure filings have fallen to their lowest levels since the Colorado Division of Housing started collecting foreclosure data n 2007. New filings in metro counties fell 43.6 percent year over year in February, according to a report from the Division of Housing. And foreclosure sales at auction fell 41.9 percent. The improvement in the [...]
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The University of Colorado Colorado Springs is honoring Chuck Murphy, a longtime business leader and community volunteer, with its Business Lifetime Entrepreneurship award. Murphy, founder of Murphy Constructors, will receive the award April 19 at a luncheon on campus. He’ll be recognized for his local successes and his community volunteer contributions. Murphy started Murphy Constructors [...]
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UnitedHealthcare is expanding in Colorado Springs once again, this time thanks to its federal contract to administer the Department of Defense’s Tricare program. About 230 people will be hired as part of the effort, and UnitedHealthcare is creating a new beneficiary and provider service center in the Springs as the primary telephone customer service center [...]
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Hoff & Leigh, a local commercial real estate firm, is continuing its national expansion with a new office in Arizona slated to open within a couple months. Managing partner Holly Trinidad was in Tucson this week preparing to open a location there. The firm has had an office in Akron, Ohio for several years but [...]
Continue reading …Magneti Marketing is set to grow its services and its company. The marketing and branding strategy firm has purchased Global Seven Agency, a communications firm specializing in digital and social media marketing. Magneti wanted to expand its marketing offerings, said Tucker Wannamaker, Magneti co-founder and Chief Marketer of Magneti. “Our leading marketing and branding strategy [...]
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The employment picture in the state continues to present interesting trends, including a slightly better unemployment rate than the country but a loss of government jobs. Employers in Colorado added 7,100 nonfarm payroll jobs from December to January and the state’s unemployment rate improved, now slightly better than the national rate, according to data released [...]
Continue reading …A program under the Southern Colorado Court Appointed Child Advocate will open a downtown location, at 110 Boulder St., where foster teens can get new and gently used clothes. The location is the former home of children’s shoe store Junior Bootery. While foster children and the families that care for them get some money from local, state, [...]
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Colorado Springs School District 11 and its neighborhoods have problems with a declining population. Student enrollment is dropping, property values are low and retail centers have high vacancy rates. The area, which covers the geographic center of the city, is ripe for revitalization, and some believe it’s on the verge of happening. Others, though, believe [...]
Continue reading …Kaiser Permanente members have rated the organization’s health plan highest in member satisfaction in Colorado for a sixth consecutive year, according to a new study released by J.D. Power and Associates. J.D. Power and Associates 2013 Member Health Plan Study is based on survey responses of 33,000 members in 136 commercial health plans throughout the [...]
Continue reading …John Leavitt, APR, has been named public information officer for the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder office. Leavitt, a local public relations veteran, has more than 19 years of government communications experience. Leavitt most recently served as a public relations consultant for Junior Achievement USA. He also has served in senior communications positions with [...]
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