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7. July 2011

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Welcome to YP Connection

Welcome to CSBJ’s Young Professional Connection. This blog is aimed at connecting young professionals with business resources and at offering a platform for voicing opinions. This blog will contain two regularly recurring features, the YP One on One and YP Voices. The One on One interviews will introduce you to a new local YP each week, [...]

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17. February 2012

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Landscape architect drawing on partnerships

Landscape architect John Olson, 32, took advantage of the economic downturn and started his own business. The Nebraska native designed spaces in Colorado and Texas as Olson Planning & Urban Landscapes before merging his business with Denver-based national design firm EV Studio in January. He worked with the firm on several projects and developed a [...]

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10. February 2012

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Law, family, community weave Anderson’s path

Claire Anderson, 29, grew up around the Colorado Springs law community because her father was a Fourth Judicial District Judge. Even though she chose not to study law, and instead moved away from Colorado Springs to earn a communications degree and master’s in public administration, the legal industry, and community, remained in her heart. She moved back [...]

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2. February 2012

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Early career choice led Bradley-Anderson to Springs

Accounting is the only job 37-year-old Trinity Bradley-Anderson has ever known. During high school she took summer jobs working with accountants, and the rest, as they say, is history, even if it is a relatively brief. Bradley-Anderson is now a tax manager and senior tax consultant at Stockman Kast Ryan & Co., where she specializes in real [...]

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26. January 2012

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Young entrepreneur enters real estate world

Sumer Liebold, 28, moved to Colorado Springs from Gunnison to study business at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She started a corporate housing business as soon as she finished school and then began working in real estate in 2008 at 8z Real Estate. The transition to real estate seemed natural because many of her [...]

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19. January 2012

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Riesterer left Ohio for D.C., but made the Springs home

Attorney Ryan Riesterer, 31, grew up in Sandusky, Ohio, a town he said might be best known for Cedar Point, a “pretty awesome” amusement park with multiple record-breaking roller coasters. He earned his undergraduate degree in political science and philosophy and then a law degree from The College of William & Mary in Virginia. He [...]

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12. January 2012

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Lofty’s takes coffee shop idea to new level

When the 58-acre Lowell Neighborhood, centered around the old Lowell Elementary School south of downtown, was redeveloped, it was envisioned to be a mixed-use creation where people worked and socialized near the places where they lived. That set the stage for 31-year-old Joshua Kennard to open Lofty’s, a coffee, tea, sandwich and beer shop where Lowell [...]

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