Author: Alex Edwards
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Colorado Springs, Exponential Impact open applications for small business loans
Applications for this summer’s round of small business loans are open. Colorado Springs and Exponential Impact have opened applications for loans worth up to $50,000. The application period lasts until May 1. Those awarded a loan will also be able to participate in an eight-week entrepreneurial support program, according to the city’s Thursday news release.…
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Local Astronaut Nichole Ayers says Artemis II mission is important step toward moon return
As NASA sent four astronauts on a journey around the moon on Wednesday, one Colorado Springs native knows well how complex, but also fun, blasting into space is. A Woodland Park High School and Air Force Academy graduate, Astronaut and Air Force Maj. Nichole Ayers considers Colorado Springs and Divide to be home. She’s flown…
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Local Astronaut Nichole Ayers says Artemis II mission is important step toward moon return
As NASA sent four astronauts on a journey around the moon last week, one Woodland Park High School graduate knows well how complex, but also fun, blasting into space is. A WPHS and Air Force Academy graduate, Astronaut and Air Force Maj. Nichole Ayers has flown everything from T-38 training aircraft to F-22 fighter jets…
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Colorado sends NASA around the moon with Artemis II launch
When NASA’s Space Launch System at Kennedy Space Center in Florida fires its engines for the second time in history, it will be flying because of more than 14,000 Coloradans. It will carry four astronauts, three Americans and one Canadian, on a 10-day course around the moon in what may be the most consequential NASA…
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Lolley’s Ice Cream in Monument expanding to downtown Colorado Springs
Lolley’s Ice Cream, a Monument favorite, is expanding to downtown Colorado Springs. The expansion means growth for a business that was born somewhat by happenstance. Shop owners Shelley and Dustin Sapp moved to Monument in 2017. They couldn’t shake the feeling that the town was missing a spot where people could hang out, enjoy a…
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Lolley’s Ice Cream in Monument expanding to downtown Colorado Springs
Lolley’s Ice Cream, a Monument favorite, is expanding to downtown Colorado Springs. The expansion means growth for a business that was born somewhat by happenstance. Shop owners Shelley and Dustin Sapp moved to Monument in 2017. They couldn’t shake the feeling that the town was missing a spot where people could hang out, enjoy a…
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Large data center may be heading to former computer chip facility in Colorado Springs
A California real estate and tech firm is planning to build a data center along Garden of the Gods Road in Colorado Springs. Oakland, Calif., based Raeden has been working with the city for well over a year on the project, said Jason Green, the founder of Raeden. The data center will be constructed inside…
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Swire Coca-Cola breaks ground on manufacturing facility in Colorado Springs
Roughly three months after announcing an expansion in Colorado Springs, Swire Coca-Cola has broken ground on its new manufacturing facility in the city. The company’s 620,000-square-foot facility will be built in the Peak Innovation Park, near the Colorado Springs Airport. In 2023, the company opened a 145,000-square-foot distribution facility that employs 170 people near the…
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Popular pizza spot expanding to downtown Colorado Springs with planned late-night hours
One of Colorado Springs’ favorite pizza spots is expanding to downtown. Slice 420 is bringing its New York-style pizza to 107 N. Tejon St. in the heart of downtown. Co-owner Christian Patriarca hopes the new spot, a Slice 420 Express, can cater to the late-night crowds that frequent downtown, especially on weekends, with closing times…
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Stix & Soul Kitchen adds a piece of the South to Colorado Springs’ Citadel mall
Colorado Springs has soul. Food that is. Now open at the former Hooters in The Citadel mall, Stix & Soul Kitchen was founded by the trio of Lewis Cox, wife Francesca Cox and business partner Richard Perea. Originally envisioned as just a pool parlor by Perea, Cox and Perea found the idea of adding a…