Firehouse Subs is opening its first restaurant in Colorado Springs Monday at 7543 N. Academy Boulevard. The company features sub sandwiches in a firehouse setting based on the founders’ 200 years of firefighting heritage. The new location is decorated with local firefighter memorabilia donated by the Colorado Springs and Castle Rock fire departments. Every Firehouse [...]
Continue reading …Scooter’s Coffeehouse opened a Colorado Springs location at 4296 N. Academy Blvd. The coffee and yogurt chain has 90 stores in seven states and is headquartered in Omaha, Neb. It’s the chain’s first location in Colorado Springs. While some stores are drive-through only, the Springs location – which is open now – offers both [...]
Continue reading …Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers continued its expansion into Colorado Springs this week when it opened its second store in the city at 5825 Stetson Hills Parkway. The store was one of four Freddy’s opened in Colorado within the last eight days, which doubled the number of the chain restaurants in the state. The Colorado [...]
Continue reading …Gentry’s Flowers, in downtown Colorado Springs, is moving. Owner Marie McPherson said she is packing up the shop, 225 E. Pikes Peak Ave., this week. McPherson said she hopes to be relocated to a newer north by the end of the year. “But, in the meantime I did not want customers to think I was [...]
Continue reading …McDonald’s is rolling out a new low-calorie menu in Colorado. The fast food chain will introduce its “Favorites under 400 calories” in Colorado locations and drive-thrus. The menu is planned for a national rollout, but will begin in Colorado, according to a release from McDonald’s. The menu features regular McDonald’s meals that are fewer than [...]
Continue reading …A Tejon Street institution is closing by the end of the month. Compleat Games & Hobbies, located at 326 N. Tejon St., is closing after 22 years in business, said owner Ty Hare. Hare started the business in 1990 as the Compleat Gamer, because he wanted to create a samller version of the very popular [...]
Continue reading …Europtics, a high-end eye-wear retailer based in Denver, is expanding into Colorado Springs. The company will take the place of Ultra Diamonds at 1685 Briargate Parkway in the Promenade Shops at Briargate. “This will be a good fit,” said Briargate shops manager Jennifer Crowley. This will be the company’s fifth store in the state. It [...]
Continue reading …Big Lots, a discount store that carries everything from clothes to home furnishings and electronics, signed a lease for a new location in the First & Main Town Center off Powers Boulevard. The retailer is completing $227,000 in tenant improvements to its new storefront at 2975 New Center Pt., according to Pikes Peak Regional Building [...]
Continue reading …General Motors Co. said its U.S. sales rose 16 percent in June on solid demand for small and midsize cars. Sales of the Chevrolet Volt electric car more than tripled over June 2011, to more than 1,700. GM also saw double-digit sales increases for the Chevrolet Malibu and Buick LaCrosse midsize cars. [...]
Continue reading …There was broad support from those who spoke at an initial public input meeting regarding a possible city ordinance prohibiting panhandling downtown Tuesday. Before the city administrators present the ordinance at an informal city council meeting Monday, the Downtown Partnership wanted to get input from stakeholders, said downtown partnership executive director Ron Butlin. The ordinance [...]
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