Easter is just around the corner, and consumers are ready to spend more than last year, according to a March survey from the National Retail Federation and sales at local stores. Candy, gift and apparel store owners in Colorado Springs said they are seeing the increase, in large part, because of the return of Fort [...]

Downtown merchants and business owners are excited that the Antlers Adam’s Mark is undergoing renovation. Stores, restaurants and event venues foresee an increased business as a result of the changes, which should be completed by the end of the year. The owners of the hotel, Pyramid Hotel Group and the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund, [...]

The small-business owner is usually the first to settle in a sparsely populated area – some services are needed no matter how transitional the setting. As more people flock to the area, more businesses follow, including the corporate types. In the beginning – an independent pizza joint; later – a Pizza Hut. Thirty years ago, [...]

A staff report The Web Marketing Association is accepting entries for its 8th annual WebAward Competition (www.webaward.org), the Internet’s premier award competition that judges website development against an ever increasing Internet standard of excellence and against peer sites within an industry. The WebAward Competition recognizes the individual and team achievement of Web professionals who create [...]

When the Chinook Bookshop closes on June 15, downtown Colorado Springs will be losing one of its most recognizable retailers. What effect the closing will have on the downtown business climate is uncertain. “We have a vibrant, pedestrian downtown, and without a new bookstore, it will hurt,” said Richard Skorman, owner of Poor Richard’s Bookstore [...]

The Colorado Springs Independent and the Denver Newspaper Agency have entered into a distribution agreement that allows subscribers to receive home delivery of the weekly alternative newspaper and the Sunday edition of the Denver Post. The arrangement began March 18. “We always wanted to have stand-alone home delivery and they agreed to deliver our paper [...]

When the average, non-engineer-type person thinks about high technology, most likely what first comes to mind are computers, software products and cell phones. However, the meaning of high technology in the 21st century is wide open, from the Internet to biotechnology to microelectronics, and Mike Semmens believes the possibilities are endless as long as the [...]