Year-to-date U.S. manufacturing technology orders are up 5.3 percent over 2011. The Association For Manufacturing Technology says October orders totaled $459.16 million, a total that’s down 31.3 percent from September and down 0.1 percent when compared with the total of $459.41 million reported for October 2011. With a year-to-date total of $4,753.68 million, 2012 is up [...]
Continue reading …Downtown Development Group bought three parcels in the El Paso County Public Trustee’s foreclosure auction Wednesday. Bob and Karen Elliott, who built the Two Eight West residential condominium project along Monument Valley Park, add this sale to three parcels they bought at 408, 410 and 412 S. Nevada Ave. in a foreclosure auction in October. [...]
Continue reading …Colorado Springs Urban Intervention, a nonprofit group that organized the Better Block project on Pikes Peak Avenue in September, for comment about the project. The project reduced street lanes on Pikes Peak between Nevada Avenue and Tejon Street to one lane in each direction on Sept. 21 to increase pedestrian, bicycle and dining space. Urban [...]
Continue reading …Downtown retailers have high hopes for Wednesday’s Holiday Stroll and are making bold predictions about record-breaking shopping crowds. The event, which runs from 5 to 8 p.m., is designed to lure shoppers into the Tejon Street restaurant and retail district, bordered roughly by Colorado and Platte avenues. Retailers hand out coupons, and some partner with [...]
Continue reading …The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court against the City of Colorado Springs, asking for an injunction of the new no-solicitation zone City Council approved Tuesday. The lawsuit claims that the amendment to the city’s solicitation ordinance violates First Amendment rights to free speech. The ACLU filed the [...]
Continue reading …Richard Caldwell has been promoted to sector manager competitive intelligence at Northrop Grumman, Information Systems. In his new position Caldwell sets the policies and procedures for the application of competitive analysis. He is responsible for the proper application of company policies, corporate and sector priority, and he mentors division analysts through their career progression and [...]
Continue reading …he Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act failed to solve one health care riddle: how to pay for long-term care for the rising tide of the nation’s aging population.
Continue reading …SunShare finished installing 19 kilowatts of donated solar panels on the roof of the Children’s Center at Colorado College Tuesday. The system is just one of two donated solar installations the Colorado Springs startup solar company will put in this week. The other is a 14-kilowatt system at the Colorado Springs School. “The reason for [...]
Continue reading …Phantom Canyon Brewing Company will begin work this week on a brewery extension at the north end of its building. The 1,200-square-foot addition to the building, which should be finished by March, will double Phantom’s brewing capacity as well as grow its business operation. The building addition will be topped with a second-floor outdoor patio [...]
Continue reading …Tara and Luc Gray are a husband and wife design-and-build team that has conquered several projects together – including their own kitchen.
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