by Scott Prater Published: March 13,2010
Tags: Colorado Mountain Brewery, Retail
Colorado Springs’ north side residents are getting a new micro brewery restaurant, and a small group of former Air Force Academy cadets is bringing it to them. Colorado Mountain Brewery, a 6,500 square foot micro brewery and restaurant is scheduled to open near Interstate 25 and Interquest Parkway by the end of June. Scott Koons, a 1993 [...] [...]
by Scott Prater Published: March 5,2010
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Nine years of planning, development, cooperation and construction culminated in the opening of the major department store anchor tenant at University Village Colorado this week. Kohl’s became the latest retailer to open its doors at the mid-town shopping center, which was once a site dominated by run-down motels, vacant, dilapidated buildings and other blighted parcels. “Kohl’s is [...] [...]
by Scott Prater Published: February 26,2010
Tags: business, Chapel Hills Mall, Home Improvement Showcase
After arriving back in Colorado Springs during 2008, Jennifer Knight kept herself busy as sort of a freelance marketing consultant. She met contractors around town and at home shows where she offered them traditional marketing services. She designed Web sites and built logo designs. Around that time she remembers hearing a few of her clients talk about [...] [...]
by Scott Prater Published: February 19,2010
Tags: Canon City, KaledioScoops, Roddy Stark, South 8th Street
Randy Stark has been in the furniture business for most of his life. Raised in a furniture-business family, he has either owned or managed a furniture store in Colorado Springs for more than two decades. But four months ago he said goodbye to all that and traded in his salesman’s shirt and tie for an ice cream [...] [...]
by Scott Prater Published: February 12,2010
Tags: Hayden-Hays Gallery, John Marzolf, The Broadmoor hotel
Private art collector and former Colorado automobile dealer John Marzolf has purchased The Hayden-Hays Gallery at The Broadmoor. Marzolf, who has owned the renowned Biltmore Galleries in Scottsdale, Ariz. since 2006, also plans to open a second art gallery at The Broadmoor, with the second gallery centered on a Western and wildlife theme. Marzolf purchased Hayden-Hays from [...] [...]
by Scott Prater Published: February 5,2010
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Shoppers can pick up a pair of jeans for $55 at Lulu these days. That’s a far cry from what people were willing to shell out for designer denim just 27 months ago. When Tess Loo and Kelly Martinez first opened Lulu during October of 2007, customers paid upward of $225 for high-end jeans. Back then, [...] [...]
Here’s a unique retail situation. Kelli Holt, a former retail store manager turned insurance agent, will lease a 1,480-foot space in the Falcon Landing Shopping Center near Academy Boulevard and Woodmen Road. She’ll make her monthly lease payment — just like most other retailers — but her store will only be open for four days [...] [...]
by Scott Prater Published: January 22,2010
Tags: Chef's Catalog, online marketing, Sears, Tim Littleton
Competition for online shoppers among the nation’s big-box retailers is affecting small businesses, even in Colorado Springs. Sears Holdings Corp. has followed Amazon.com and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in allowing third parties to sell items on their Web sites. That strategy is good news for niche retailers like Chef’s Catalog, based in Colorado Springs, which now can showcase [...] [...]
by Scott Prater Published: January 15,2010
Charlie Martin moved to Colorado Springs in 1988, and soon after arriving noticed a spot on East Fillmore Street that he thought might make a good home for a restaurant. So he opened his restaurant Charlie’s Pit Bar-B-Que. The restaurant has had numerous locations during the last 20 years, and most recently could be found in [...] [...]
by Scott Prater Published: January 8,2010
Tags: Look ahead 2010, Retail
Local players expect more of the same for Colorado Springs retailers in 2010. During 2009, retailers locally and nationally cut inventories, hinged their year on the all-important holiday season and took advantage of better leasing terms to either move to more desirable spaces or expand their operations as means to reposition themselves for an imminent recovery. The [...] [...]
