/tags/local-business Local Business en-US Copyright KUNC/Community Radio for Northern Colorado 2020 Sat, 28 Dec 2024 13:00:00 GMT /2024-12-28/lookout-mountains-gift-shop-and-cafe-prepares-for-closure-as-decades-long-family-legacy-ends The Pahaska Tepee Gift Shop and Café will close at the end of 2024. Bill Carle and his family has operated the store for nearly 50 years, and he fears what will come of the shop's future. Sat, 28 Dec 2024 13:00:00 GMT /2024-12-28/lookout-mountains-gift-shop-and-cafe-prepares-for-closure-as-decades-long-family-legacy-ends Emma VandenEinde /podcast/inthenoco/2024-12-03/what-makes-a-great-shopping-mall-santa-this-colorado-school-has-trained-thousands-of-them If you’ve taken your kid to see Santa at a local mall, or hosted a Santa at your office party... have you ever wondered where that Santa learned his magic? They may have attended Professional Santa Claus School, based here in Colorado. Today on ITN, we meet the founder of the school that has trained thousands of Santas over the past four decades. Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:35:00 GMT /podcast/inthenoco/2024-12-03/what-makes-a-great-shopping-mall-santa-this-colorado-school-has-trained-thousands-of-them In The NoCo, Ariel Lavery, Erin O'Toole, Brad Turner /podcast/inthenoco/2024-07-05/for-the-owner-of-estes-parks-award-winning-taffy-shop-success-means-making-memories The Taffy Shop was recently voted the Best Candy Store in the country by USA Today – which might surprise some, considering the Estes Park shop has been making just one kind of candy for 89 years. Today on In The NoCo, we talk with owner Mark Igel to learn why tradition is such an essential part of their success. Fri, 05 Jul 2024 11:32:00 GMT /podcast/inthenoco/2024-07-05/for-the-owner-of-estes-parks-award-winning-taffy-shop-success-means-making-memories In The NoCo, Erin O'Toole, Brad Turner /news/2024-04-09/ladera-annexation-moves-ahead-after-timnath-voters-reject-ballot-measure The Ladera mixed-use development annexation will not be stalled after a vote in Timnath overwhelmingly rejected a measure about it last Tuesday. Tue, 09 Apr 2024 17:29:38 GMT /news/2024-04-09/ladera-annexation-moves-ahead-after-timnath-voters-reject-ballot-measure Emma VandenEinde /news/2024-01-23/expect-to-see-more-orange-cones-and-bulldozers-as-johnstown-development-booms Millions of square feet of new residential and commercial development are either under construction or in the planning phase in Johnstown, a town that has exploded in growth in recent years. Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:14:49 GMT /news/2024-01-23/expect-to-see-more-orange-cones-and-bulldozers-as-johnstown-development-booms Emma VandenEinde /news/2023-10-25/colorado-judge-chides-company-that-tried-to-pay-23-500-settlement-in-coins-weighing-3-tons Judge Joseph Findley ruled Monday that JMF Enterprises "acted maliciously and in bad faith" by delivering a custom made metal box containing the coins that was too heavy to be carried in the freight elevator at the offices for the subcontractor's lawyer, let alone with the forklift required to carry it. Wed, 25 Oct 2023 19:45:15 GMT /news/2023-10-25/colorado-judge-chides-company-that-tried-to-pay-23-500-settlement-in-coins-weighing-3-tons Colleen Slevin, Associated Press /news/2023-09-04/b-movies-make-the-a-list-at-aurora-reel-life-preserve The Archive shop on East Colfax Avenue is a place where the campy, vampy and surreal B-movie genres of the 1960s, ’70s, ’80s and beyond are curated and sold to appreciative fans. Aficionados walk out with movies they can carry, not download. This is a shrine for “physical” media. Mon, 04 Sep 2023 12:00:00 GMT /news/2023-09-04/b-movies-make-the-a-list-at-aurora-reel-life-preserve Barnaby B. Atwood, for the Aurora Sentinel /news/2023-08-15/news-brief-with-the-colorado-sun-hoa-foreclosures-and-the-state-of-the-drive-in KUNC Programing & Operations Manager Desmond O'Boyle spoke to Tracy Ross with the Colorado Sun about suspect HOA foreclosure practices in Colorado and the state of the drive-in movie theater. Tue, 15 Aug 2023 18:33:26 GMT /news/2023-08-15/news-brief-with-the-colorado-sun-hoa-foreclosures-and-the-state-of-the-drive-in Desmond O'Boyle /regional-news/2023-05-31/entrepreneurship-is-thriving-in-the-mountain-west-especially-in-rural-areas-analysis-finds Entrepreneurship is thriving in the rural Mountain West, according to a new index released by the e-commerce company Shopify. The data comes as new business applications are on the rise nationwide. Wed, 31 May 2023 16:38:51 GMT /regional-news/2023-05-31/entrepreneurship-is-thriving-in-the-mountain-west-especially-in-rural-areas-analysis-finds Will Walkey /regional-news/2023-01-12/economic-think-tank-spotlights-mountain-west-micropolitans-but-ignores-wealth-inequalities Small towns in the Mountain West are leading the pack when it comes to economic success, according to a recent report by Heartland Forward. Thu, 12 Jan 2023 19:02:19 GMT /regional-news/2023-01-12/economic-think-tank-spotlights-mountain-west-micropolitans-but-ignores-wealth-inequalities Emma VandenEinde