Author: Wayne Heilman Special to the Gazette
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Perkins Motors brings Fiat back to Colorado Springs
After six years of trying to secure a franchise, Perkins Motors has become the first and only Fiat dealer in southern Colorado in more than three decades. The Motor City Drive dealership expects to receive about 20 Fiat cars, including the 2017 124 Spider sports car, by the end of the month as its initial…
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Polling deters Colorado Springs’ push for vote on tourism tax increase
An vote that was expected next year on doubling the tax on hotel rooms and rental cars in the Colorado Springs area will be delayed. Polling indicated the proposal had no better than a 50-50 chance of passing even after an extensive advertising campaign, backers of the proposal said. Doug Price, CEO of the Colorado…
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New car registrations continue slide in El Paso County
El Paso County’s new car market continued to slow in August with new vehicle registrations declining for a fifth consecutive month, according to a report from the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s Office. County residents registered 1,878 new vehicles in August, down 20.7 percent from August 2015 and the fourth consecutive double-digit percentage drop.…
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Gazette owner buys Monument, Woodland Park newspapers
Clarity Media, owner of The Gazette, has acquired The Pikes Peak Courier and The Tri-Lakes Tribune and formed a new subsidiary called Pikes Peak Newspapers to manage the two weekly publications along with The Cheyenne Edition and The Woodmen Edition. Gazette Community Newspapers, a Clarity subsidiary, bought the two newspapers from an ownership group that…
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Navy Federal Credit Union opens second Colorado Springs branch
Navy Federal Credit Union has opened a second Colorado Springs branch in the University Village Colorado shopping center at 5278 N. Nevada Ave., Suite 180. The nation’s largest credit union with $78 billion in assets opened its first local branch in 2008 at 1139 Space Center Drive, near Peterson Air Force Base. The University Village…
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Giant job fair Wednesday offers 2,000 positions
The Pikes Peak Workforce Center will host the region’s largest job far from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Hotel Eleganté Conference and Event Center, 2886 S. Circle Drive, featuring more than 120 employers filling more than 2,000 positions. Veterans, service members and eligible spouses may enter the fair at 9:30 a.m. Those…
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Delta Solutions gets $16.9M Air Force contract
Delta Solutions & Strategies LLC has received a $16.9 million, eight-year Air Force contract to provide maintenance support for the Puerto Rico Station of the High Frequency Global Community System. The Colorado Springs-based company plans to hire 11 people to complete the contract under which it will provide command and control for voice and data,…
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Cherwell Software president is promoted to CEO
Directors of Cherwell Software LLC have named Craig Harper as CEO, replacing cofounder Vance Brown, who will assume a new full-time role as executive chairman of the Colorado Springs-based software company. Harper joined Cherwell’s board in February 2014 and become president in five months later. His promotion to CEO is part of the board’s succession…
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New Colorado law could boost crowdfunding
A year-old state law probably will make crowdfunding the most popular way to fund small business, according to speakers at a workshop Thursday on entrepreneurial finance at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. The 2015 legislation along with similar federal rules enacted earlier this year widens fundraising for startups beyond wealthy individuals to a…
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Pikes Peak region sees best year for home construction in 10 years
Housing construction in August resumed its climb to the best year in a decade, jumping 14.7 percent from a year earlier after declining in July, according to a report released Thursday by the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department. The agency, which oversees residential and commercial construction, issued 304 permits for single-family home construction in El…