by admin Published: November 22,2002
Tags: Retailing
Status has always been a driving factor for old retail: Most expensive. Most exclusive. Most visible. But new retail is going for something different: Self identify. Validation. A place where everybody knows your name. While “big box” mass merchandisers like Wal-Mart, Target, and Kmart try to create cache with celebrity brands and low prices, they are [...] [...]
by admin Published: November 1,2002
Tags: human resources, Retailing
The people who pass through the doors of the Pikes Peak Workforce Center are your neighbors, and they are hurting. They hope for employment, and many do not much care what that might be. They have kids to feed and mortgages to be paid. In one of the cruelest years in recent memory, 2002 added to [...] [...]
by admin Published: November 1,2002
Tags: Retailing
Hey, you wanna hear something scary about Halloween? Most adults will spend $60 to $80 each this year on Halloween parties, costumes and candy. An American Express report said 67 percent of adults rate Halloween as a popular holiday in their households, and Americans will spend as much as $80 each on spook night this year. The [...] [...]
by Becky Hurley Published: November 1,2002
Tags: Industrial Real Estate, Retailing
This week’s real estate column comes to you from downtown Manhattan, just two blocks from Ground Zero. There is still much activity in the area although retail districts have been hard-hit by the loss of as many as 50,000 former World Trade Center-area employees who no longer come to WTC Plaza each Monday through [...] [...]
by admin Published: October 25,2002
Notre Dame (ND) left town with a perfect record following Saturday’s game at the Air Force Academy, but many area retailers are happy about what thousands of ND fans left behind. For many area merchants, the game brought extra revenue in a year when extra business is needed. Hoteliers, retailers and others generally suffered from a [...] [...]
by admin Published: October 18,2002
Tags: Hotels and Lodging, Restaurants and Food Service, Retailing, Sports
Air Force, 6-0, 18th ranked nationally, and Notre Dame, 6-0, and ranked 7th, play at Falcon Stadium Saturday in a nationally televised game. Thousands of people are pouring into town, and retailers who survived the soft tourism business this summer will suddenly see some dollars flowing through their cash registers. How much? And how many will [...] [...]
by Becky Hurley Published: October 11,2002
Tags: Marketing and Advertising, Media, Retailing
He’s a pianist, composer, author, producer and recording artist – and as president of Source Music, Steve Barta is constantly adding new dimensions to his multi-faceted career. In the past six years, for example, the popular local jazz pianist and performer has found ways to integrate quality music into corporate America through commercial songwriting and [...] [...]
by Becky Hurley Published: October 11,2002
Tags: Housing, Industrial Real Estate, residential real estate, Retailing
Once again, there’s a lot of news to report. From the two large Bethesda office building and Pace Plaza retail center sales reported last week to this week’s leases and transactions, there’s never a dull moment on the Colorado Springs real estate scene. Bill May of Classic Mortgage said last week that commercial mortgage rates [...] [...]
by Becky Hurley Published: October 4,2002
Tags: Housing, Industrial Real Estate, Legislative, residential real estate, Restaurants and Food Service, Retailing
With almost a year of real estate columns behind me, I realize how much there is to report in this ever-changing, fast-paced field – and so many stories still to tell. Downtown re-development deserves a full column – as do many of the transactions the Colorado Springs Business Journal reports each week. In the days [...] [...]
by admin Published: September 27,2002
Tags: Retailing
Angels are wherever you experience them. Jewelry designer Susan Helmich of Monument discovered the first angel in her “Angel’s with Attitude” line of pins and pendants as the result of customer need. People Helmich knows or has met inspired the other 14 animated angels. Helmich is a California product, but she relocated to Colorado in 1980 [...] [...]
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