Posts Tagged ‘Colorado Springs’
Colorado Springs businessman James E. Hurley is the SBA’s pick for Small Business Person of the Year in Colorado. Hurley, president of JE Hurley Construction, will be recognized later this month in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Small Business Administration named winners from 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam. One of them [...] [...]
ITT Exelis Information Systems is the U.S. Small Business Administration’s pick for best prime contractor. The company’s main headquarters are in Herndon, Va., and its mission systems division is headquartered in Colorado Springs. ITT Exelis Information Systems was selected by SBA as the national winner of the 2012 Dwight D. Eisenhower Award for Excellence, Research [...] [...]
In some ways, the local economy is showing its strongest performance since bottoming out in February 2009, but there are still concerns about employment and real income, according to the Southern Economic Forum’s quarterly update. The regional manufacturing index is up 43 percent since the recession and consumer confidence is up 19 percent. Economists at [...] [...]
Colorado Springs was the 54th most searched real estate market in the country on Realtor.com in April. The ranking was higher than the 55th place the city had in March. The higher numbers, combined with falling inventory figures, rising list prices and rising sales prices indicate that the real estate market in Colorado Springs is [...] [...]
Drake Power Plant’s days could be numbered. But it could be decades before the familiar plumes of steam no longer dominate the downtown landscape. The Colorado Springs Utilities Board of Directors – essentially, City Council – asked the utilities staff to study the feasibility of de-commissioning Drake, the coal-fired power plant. Tentatively, the study will [...] [...]
After more than an hour in executive session, the Colorado Springs City Council postponed the decision about outgoing CEO Larry McEvoy’s $1.15 million severance package. The reason, said council president Scott Hente, was to get more advice from city attorney Chris Melcher. “This is a complicated issue,” Hente said. “It’s about contract law, about labor [...] [...]
Outgoing Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce CEO Dave Csinytan isn’t planning on leaving town – but he is weighing his opportunities carefully. Csintyan lost his position with the chamber when it merged with the Colorado Springs Economic Development Corp., and the group launched a national effort to find a new CEO. Csintyan was a finalist, [...] [...]
Frontier Airlines did not win its bid for a direct flight from Colorado Springs to Washington, D.C.’s, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The Department of Transportation awarded the limited slots into DCA to Alaska Airlines, Jet Blue, Southwest and Virgin America. “We were disappointed when we heard the news, but given the intensity of the [...] [...]
The Financial Times ranked the Center for Creative Leadership No. 6 among executive education institutions. The North Carolina-based nonprofit has offices in Colorado Springs, San Diego, Brussels,Moscow, Singapore;,New Delhi and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The ranking comes from a worldwide survey about executive education, according to a release from the group. This marks the second year [...] [...]
Xpriori, a Colorado Springs-based firm that specializes in electronic discovery in civil litigation, has opened a Denver office. Xpriori is a provider of eDiscovery products, those which help find documents related to specific civil cases for law firms and corporations. The new Denver office will allow the firm to grow a national presence, said Tim [...] [...]
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