Business

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Briefs: Biz Buzz May 03, 2009

• Bananas Fun Park is adding a 10,000-square-foot multi-use tent to its campus that should be completed by October. The 42-foot-tall tent costs about $500,000, according to park owner Chris Burns, and it will be installed by ...

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Appliance store opens in former REX location

A new discount appliance retailer will open in the same location where REX shut down in February. Appliance Factory Outlet, 2469 U.S. Highway 6&50, opened Saturday and plans to have a grand opening this summer. The shop sells appliances ...

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Energy firm lays off more employees

Halliburton laid off more workers in the Grand Valley on Friday, marking the third time the energy-services company has laid off local employees in the past two months. Local Halliburton officials declined to comment Friday. One man, a ...

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Energy firm lays off more employees

Halliburton laid off more workers in the Grand Valley on Friday, marking the third time the energy-services company has laid off local employees in the past two months. Local Halliburton officials declined to comment Friday. One man, a ...

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City’s liquor store collections show stout quarterly increase in sales taxes

In good times people like to drink, and in bad times it appears people like to drink even more, if first-quarter sales tax revenue for the city of Grand Junction is an accurate gauge. Sales-tax revenue for liquor stores, one of 11 categories ...

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Car dealership expands space despite uncertainty

A hum of construction echoes from the rear of Ed Bozarth Chevrolet-Pontiac and Buick off U.S. Highway 6&50 in Grand Junction. But at the front of the sprawling 14-acre General Motors dealership and repair shop, it’s dead ...

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Briefs: Biz Buzz April 26, 2009

Two new businesses, a tattoo parlor and a massage parlor, have opened in Patterson Square Village, 2478 Patterson Road, Unit 17. • Tim Trujillo is owner of Native American Ink, which opened approximately three weeks ago. During ...

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Small business, big achievement: Feds honor GJ’s Action Publishing

Approximately a million students in North America use Action Publishing’s day planners to organize their lives. Not bad for a local company that rose from the ashes of one that was left for dead eight years ago. And for his part in the ...

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Sanitation company plans to build new office, shop at 23 and G roads

Rocky Mountain Sanitation plans to build a 6,000-square-foot office and shop facility near the intersection of 23 and G roads. Business owners Lisa and Loren Mullen had been renting a 5,000-square-foot building at 1077 22 Road. They expect ...

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New 2-story REI store planned at 24 Road

Developers are expected to break ground later this year on a new commercial development along 24 Road north of Mesa Mall, including a new, two-story REI store. Documents on file with the Grand Junction Public Works and Planning Department ...

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