The City of Colorado Springs will present the second phase of its Woodmen Road expansion plans during an open house Wednesday. The second phase calls for expanding the road from four lanes to six between Academy Boulevard and Lexington Drive. It also includes the addition of sidewalks, bike lanes and landscaping from Stinson Road to Powers Boulevard. Planners [...] [...]
Remember those great ideas you had for an invention that could make money and put you on easy street? It might be time to pull them out of the closet and dust them off. Patent lawyers, politicians and scientists are pushing for a U.S. patent bureau in Colorado. Also in the running are New Mexico, [...] [...]
Engineering company Bal-Seal plans to build a $45 million, 137,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Colorado Springs that the company says will create 210 jobs during the next five years. The Colorado Springs City Council approved an incentive deal Nov. 29 for Bal-Seal. In exchange for the intent to create jobs, the company received $543,000 in tax [...] [...]
New owners of the popular Westside Mexican restaurant Amanda’s Fonda have backed out of a plan to open a downtown location but still have plans to open a number of restaurants along the Front Range, including one at the former Village Inn restaurant at 8050 N. Academy Blvd. Businessman Rick Holland, who owns the restaurant [...] [...]
The elephants at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo are spending their days exploring their new multi-million home. A new elephant barn is part of the Encounter Africa exhibit, which is under construction now. Encounter Africa, when complete, will be home to the African elephants, African lions and black rhinos. All told it is a $13.5 million project, [...] [...]
A local for-profit psychiatric hospital will nearly quadrupling its number of beds with a new $11.2 million facility, which will also call for up to 250 jobs. Peak View Behavioral Health has broken ground on a project that will add 100 acute-care psychiatric beds for the elderly, adults, youth and children. The hospital has been [...] [...]
Ultra-discount retailer Family Dollar closed fiscal 2010 with its 10th consecutive quarter of double-digit earnings growth, a trend the chain expects to continue seeing Company officials have announced it will accelerate new store growth and launch a renovation effort to revamp existing sites. During last week’s earnings webcast of the 6,800-plus unit discount chain, Chairman [...] [...]
Two years after purchasing 50 acres in Castle Rock, Centura Health is poised to begin expanding its operations to the area. The state’s largest nonprofit health care provider plans to begin work on a 20,000-square-foot emergency room and medical imaging office by the summer. The company also plans a 400,000-square-foot medical office building. “We haven’t [...] [...]
Denver-based bath and skincare retailer Melt Brands LLC has opened a retail store inside The Citadel mall. Melt Bath and Skincare occupies 900 square feet near the mall’s food court and represents the ninth store in an expanding retail skincare company. Melt Bath and Skincare was founded during 2001 by Steve McNally, Thomas Smith and [...] [...]
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