Colorado Springs Business Journal (CO) articles from January 2005

Colorado Springs Business Journal (CO) archives from January 2005

Web surfing and procrastinating define 2004 holiday shopping season.
January 7, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Cline Consumers are balancing their check books. Retailers are counting their blessings. Analysts are furiously trying to calculate what exactly happened during the 2004 holiday shopping season. Consumers were...

Colorado Springs Real Estate Briefs: January 7, 2005.
January 7, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Cline Construction and development are booming as the city continues to grow. 2004 was quite a year for all those folks in the real estate sector. Dozens of new businesses came to Colorado Springs in '04, generating...

Colorado Springs task force tries to find way to recoup area's manufacturing losses.
January 7, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman During the past four years, Colorado Springs lost more than 5,000 manufacturing jobs, not inclusive of the 4,000 jobs lost in the high-tech industry. Colorado lost about 50,000 manufacturing jobs during the same...

Colorado Springs Financial Briefs: January 7, 2005.
January 7, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Cline As time ticks by, calendar pages flip and "business as usual" takes on a different meaning, things will inevitably change. In 2004, Colorado Springs saw a few transformations in the banking sector. The Check 21...

Retail in Colorado Springs faces challenges and sees opportunity in 2004.
January 7, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Cline In 2004, the retail world in Colorado Springs experienced both highs and lows, from a sales spike brought on by the return of several thousand troops from Iraq to the closing of a downtown institution. Downtown...

Pre-med student pursues a 'life less ordinary'.
January 7, 2005... Byline: Jennifer Knight He wants to be an emergency room physician, as well as a back country doctor. Austin College sophomore Justin Coppedge hopes to integrate a lifelong love of wilderness with the sharp thinking of an emergency...

Harold "Hal" Littrell celebrates 50 years in Colorado Springs' banking community.
January 7, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Cline Fresh out of the Air Force, Harold "Hal" Littrell interviewed for a teller trainee position at Exchange National Bank (now U.S. Bank) in 1954. When considering that position, he had no idea what the job would...

Colorado Springs Medical Briefs: January 7, 2005.
January 7, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. - Ursula K LeGuin Penrose Main Hospital embarked on a new journey about two years ago with a plan to construct a...

Colorado Springs foreign trade zone going unused.
January 14, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman In 1984, Colorado Springs established a foreign trade zone near the Colorado Springs Airport. Zone boundaries were later changed to the Interquest Business Park area because foreign trade zone board members felt...

Office design trends are bringing the outside in.
January 14, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Cline Let's face it. Working in a drab, outdated office is no fun. Most folks spend at least eight hours per day at work and they don't want to feel smothered, cramped or uncomfortable. They don't want to forget what blue...

Colorado Springs Technology Incubator eyes one-stop hub for entrepreneurs.
January 14, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman Gary Markle's New Year's resolution is to bring his concept of a central alliance center to fruition. Markle is the president of the Colorado Springs Technology Incubator, and he has been sowing the seeds of the...

Employment numbers in Colorado Springs are rising.
January 14, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Cline In Colorado Springs, fewer people have to look for work these days. Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment data were released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Dec. 29 for all United States metropolitan...

Pine Creek High School senior focuses on seeking connections with others.
January 14, 2005... Byline: Jennifer Knight Amber Williams has too much faith to be a people-pleaser, though she undoubtedly delights everyone who has the good fortune to work with her. Williams, who enjoys a myriad of extracurricular activities from...

Colorado Springs's job recruiter dedicated to helping people find work.
January 14, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Cline A whopping 85 percent of job vacancies are never advertised. This is where Kathleen Conners comes in. Conners, an author, professional trainer and recruiter, has dedicated her professional life to helping people...

Colorado lands two new international trade offices.
January 14, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman With year-to-date sales totaling $110 million through October, Australia is Colorado's 15th largest export market. Laurel Alpert, the division director of international trade for the Colorado Office of Economic...

Colorado Springs Real Estate Briefs January 14, 2005.
January 14, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Cline The high-tech neighborhood near Garden of the Gods is growing. Construction on the Westech II building, 4260 Buckingham Drive, began in October. The exterior of the building is complete, with construction slated to...

Colorado Springs ad agency drives home the business.
January 21, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman Buy a Volkswagen this weekend and no more credit card debt. If it snows more than four inches on New Year's Day, the SUV you purchase this week is free. Come in and buy a Ford truck today, and we'll send you on a...

Colorado Springs Airport beefing up volunteer programs.
January 21, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Cline With the relentless surge of people, the voices on the loudspeakers and flight delays, the airport can be a pretty stressful place. For travelers who are new to Colorado Springs, or for anyone looking to learn more...

Somewhere over the rainbow ... is a brand new Manitou.
January 21, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman Build and they will come. It's an old saying that is questionable to some - arguable to many. However, create and build from a vision that embraces the heart and soul of the land and its history, and they will come...

Pepperdine sophomore seeks significance, excellence.
January 21, 2005... Byline: Jennifer Knight John Deniston believes it is always easier to criticize than to change, and that "a kernel of the latter is worth a cob of the former." The sophomore at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., is quite the...

Transmission problems are not a problem to Colorado Springs mechanic.
January 21, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Cline Jake Boyce has turned a childhood interest into a career. Even at a young age, Boyce found cars fascinating. When Boyce was 7, his father purchased a 1948 Chevy panel van. Boyce, part owner of McFall's Transmission...

Colorado's senior health concerns.
January 21, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman At a press conference on Jan. 11, B.J. Scott, president and chief executive officer of Peak Vista Community Health Centers, announced that "after a long dating period" the relationship between Peak Vista and...

Colorado Springs Manufacturers Task Force building momentum.
January 28, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman About to enter its third year in existence, the Colorado Springs Manufacturers Task Force continues to build momentum in the community. Jo Ann "Miabella" Galvan is the principal of JAG Consulting Group and one...

Colorado economy appears stable; expected to continue to gain.
January 28, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman The Colorado economy is stable and gaining strength. That's what is coming down through the pipeline from those in the know at the state and local levels. State Treasurer Mike Coffman released a statement on...

Colorado's semi-arid environment leads some to use unusual style of landscaping.
January 28, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Cline Colorado will never have the lush, rolling green landscapes of the Appalachians. Colorado, for that matter, will never have the abundant water supply of many states in the nation. Like it or not, this is a semi-arid...

CO Small Biz Administration, Denver's Nat'l Assn. of Women Biz Owners hosting conference.
January 28, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Cline Businesswomen in the West will soon converge in Denver to receive tips, inspiration and education. On Feb. 9 the Colorado Small Business Administration and the Denver chapter of the National Association of Women...

Midwest Italian franchise opens in Colorado.
January 28, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman In 1959, Sam Mancino Sr. came home from his job at Uniroyal and told his wife he never wanted to work for someone else again. How would he support his five children, she asked. Mancino told her he was opening a...

U of Colorado-Colorado Springs senior fights for the disadvantaged.
January 28, 2005... Byline: Jennifer Knight Tiffany Pratts is a champion for the underdog. A senior at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, Pratts is a finance major. She expects to work in corporate financial development as a precursor to a...

Colorado Springs man Bob Adelmann's life as an entrepreneur.
January 28, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Cline Bob Adelmann remembers selling Burpee seeds at the age of 6, with his mother in tow, while growing up in New Jersey. "I thought it was the most amazing thing that people would buy seeds from me and actually give me...

Colorado Springs Real Estate Briefs: January 28, 2005.
January 28, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Cline On Jan. 22 the Colorado Springs Housing and Building Association broke from tradition and held its annual awards dinner separate from the group's holiday party. The association celebrated the holidays in December at...