Business

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Biz Buzz, Feb. 12, 2012

Drinking coffee with her grandparents during her childhood fostered Shauna Rhyne’s dream of one day owning a coffee shop. Monday it became a reality for the 23-year-old. Rhyne acquired Coffee Muggers, 644 Main St., from Chris Turpin, ...

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Energy company co-executives partner in Fruita brewery

Five years ago, Fred and Terri Martinez and their sons took an old J.C. Penney building that had once housed a brew pub in Evanston, Wyo., and turned it into Suds Bros. Brewery. Now, working side-by-side with Jerry and Rochelle Tufly, the ...

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Biz buzz

Business grew about 20 percent for Hightower Supply’s Grand Junction store last year, necessitating expansion into a larger facility, which its owners found at 750 S. Ninth St. The new building offers about 1,000 more square feet than ...

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Housing market, mix of good news, bad news

The Mesa County real estate market ended 2011 displaying additional signs of stabilizing, as year-over-year sales posted another increase, and housing inventory fell. But observers say there are indications at the outset of 2012 that a ...

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Biz Buzz, Jan. 29, 2012

When Commercial Refuse Service started in the spring of 2009, it had one truck and one employee. “I was the one, with a telephone growing out of my ear,” said Rick Beckner, who now co-owns and manages the trash-hauling business at ...

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Buffalo Wild Wings to open near mall

Buffalo Wild Wings will open in the former home of Smuggler’s Brewpub & Grille, 2412 U.S. Highway 6&50, in late spring or early summer. The national restaurant chain is known for boneless, Buffalo and New York-style wings with ...

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New boss at Taco Bell

Ken Basinger, who went to work in 1977 as a Taco Bell assistant manager trainee “with no intention of ever making it a career,” now owns a chain of Taco Bell restaurants. Basinger on Jan. 1 completed the purchase of the Taco ...

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Biz Buzz, Jan. 22, 2012

Earl Ritter bit into a hot dog Thursday at Daylight Donuts, 1410 North Ave., because his blood-sugar needed it and because, well, he could. The Grand Valley’s second Daylight Donuts opened Thursday, and in addition to being nearly twice ...

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Slow economic growth to continue, audience told

U.S. economic growth in 2012 could look a lot like last year — plodding but steady. Or, as Federal Reserve economist Mark Snead described it, “Groundhog Day,” the comedy where Bill Murray’s character repeatedly wakes ...

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Biz Buzz, Jan. 15, 2012

Where two 2,500-square-foot buildings once served Fuoco Nissan at 741 N. First St., one much larger structure will remain when construction concludes this spring. The 13,000-square-foot building is taking shape with the concrete poured and ...

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