Owners of restaurants, stores and other businesses were relieved when the Colorado legislature modified a proposed law restricting the use of plastic bags and polystyrene packaging to give them longer to comply.
The COVID-19 pandemic forced banks to perfect their digital game in a hurry, and bankers say the changes are here to stay.
Since 2017, the Colorado nonprofit Transforming Safety has been offering former prison inmates a new start through entrepreneurship training and business loans. The aim was to reduce recidivism — Colorado has the nation’s fourth-worst rate, at 50 percent — and build businesses in underserved areas.
In October, the owners of The Wild Goose Meeting House and Good Neighbors Meeting House faced the biggest challenge of their eight years in business, and not just because of pandemic disruption.
Electronic scooters are coming to Colorado Springs. Scooter share programs have become popular in cities across the nation, and if all goes as planned, Colorado Springs will join the e-scooter club by the end of the summer. Scooter share programs, and bike shares like PikeRide, which has bee…
Trails, open spaces, parks and forests are helping the Pikes Peak region get back on track as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes.
The clock is ticking for business owners who borrowed money under the Paycheck Protection Program in 2020 to apply for loan forgiveness.
The real estate market in Colorado Springs is crazy. Homes are commanding prices 20 percent higher than they did just a year ago. Some even higher.
The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t slowed commercial development along the Powers Boulevard corridor, but it has amplified some trends that were already happening.
Jobsite thefts have been on the rise, costing Pikes Peak area homebuilders thousands of dollars.
The construction industry is highly regulated by laws and codes that are intended to assure safe buildings.
Colorado legislators ended the 2021 session having passed a near-record 502 bills, many of them directed toward repairing the COVID-19 pandemic’s damage to small businesses.
Military personnel relocating to the Colorado Springs area face the same issues other buyers and renters do — escalating home prices and rents, and competition for limited available units.
The last year and a half has forced chambers of commerce in southern Colorado to adapt to survive. Networking events, often the cornerstone for any chamber, went virtual in 2020 and chamber resources had to be leveraged in new ways to retain and benefit members.
After building the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum and Hall of Fame for double the cost of the original estimate of $45 million, museum board members want $3.5 million from the city’s American Rescue Plan allocation. The money apparently is needed to plug a revenue hole caused by a lack…
With the pandemic-related closure last year of many businesses, owners have been wondering if their losses are covered under business interruption coverage in their policies.
When Todd Baldwin started Red Leg Brewing Company in 2013, he had little guidance or resources from the Colorado Springs business community, outside of a pamphlet on how to launch a restaurant.
Conventional thinking is that automation and technological improvements may reduce employment.
Centura Health is building a new orthopedic hospital on a 58-acre lot at Interquest Parkway and Interstate 25, while expanding the four-story St. Francis Medical Center at Woodmen Road and Powers Boulevard by two floors.
The pandemic has been an eye-opening journey for many businesses and individuals.
Briona Patterson was a supervisor at her job for more than a year when she became pregnant; her son was born two months before the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020. But when she attempted to return to work after maternity leave, she was beset by new anxieties over the pandemic.
Owners of lodging properties in Manitou Springs think the scene is set for a prosperous tourist season — if they can find the help they need.
Trading a banking career for scuba sales takes some flexibility, and Brian Alvarado’s seen it firsthand.
As recently as five or so years ago, investors were not choosing to put their money where their beliefs were. The reason: socially responsible investing didn’t provide the level of returns they could earn with traditional investments.
The Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC finally hosted its first home game on May 21 at Downtown’s new 8,000-seat Weidner Field. With COVID restrictions loosening, the stadium was able to increase capacity to 70 percent a few days before gameday and still managed a limited sellout of 5,600 seats…
Before the digital age, it wasn’t easy for consumers to work out whether a particular business acted ethically, except by word of mouth. Now, reviews and information about a business’ reliability, values and practices are just a click away.
On May 8, Colorado Springs broke ground on a historic park renovation project in the Southeast. The Panorama Park project is the biggest of its kind in Colorado Springs history, and it would not be possible without a partnership between public entities and private industry.
Startup accelerator Exponential Impact’s Pitch Night returned in-person May 20 after a year-plus hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It’s hard to remember that the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom and widespread remote work were new and strange just over a year ago. Together they unleashed a huge learning curve and an alarming new set of cybersecurity risks.
Just about everyone’s heard the 1971 megahit “American Pie,” by Don McLean, who famously sings a line about “the day the music died.” While actually an oblique reference to a 1959 plane crash that killed rock legends Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson, listeners who don’t know t…
The city of Fountain has hit the pause button on development, saying the city needs to assess its water supply before allowing more new taps.
When Lawrence Wagner launched Spark Mindset in 2017, he wanted to build a path to high-paying cybersecurity careers for people from historically disadvantaged backgrounds.
In the northeastern stretches of the city, a new neighborhood is going up on Odin Drive. A house sits on muddy, rain-soaked ground with workers crawling in and out of every opening. It’s like an anthill with hardhats.
“This pandemic has magnified every existing inequality in our society.”
Leona Abdullah-Ward dreamed of having her own dance studio for more than a decade. She’d taught fitness classes at Hillside Community Center after retiring in 2000 from the Army, but she’d never had a place of her own.
Ready for a paradigm shift? Not since the invention of the horseless carriage and the electric light bulb have Americans faced such radical changes in how they travel or power their homes. In years to come, skyrocketing gasoline prices could pressure citizens to either buy electric cars or u…
A welter of laws and regulations covers employers and employees as workplaces begin to reopen after COVID-19 closures and restrictions.
A pair of iconic Pikes Peak tourism draws are on track to reopen.
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought many changes in the workplace. It has decimated some businesses while increasing the demand for others’ goods and services. It has highlighted weaknesses and inequalities and forced the adoption of new business models.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, retail experts were saying that the end was near for traditional indoor malls like The Citadel and Chapel Hills. Online sales were gaining popularity, anchor tenants were folding — and the pandemic was expected to deliver the death blow.
SeaChange Capital Partners, an organization that helps nonprofits with complex challenges, warned a year ago that nonprofits would have to take decisive action to survive the COVID-19 pandemic.
