Author: Wayne Heilman
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Nonprofit seeks new, affordable home as Colorado Springs plans new senior center in plaza where it currently rents
A nonprofit that helps find new homes for pets of terminally ill patients is among 11 nonprofits and businesses that likely will be forced to move when the city replaces the aging Colorado Springs Senior Center next year. Safe Place for Pets, whose pets are featured for adoption in The Tribune each week, has operated…
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Nonprofit Safe Place for Pets seeks new, affordable home
COLORADO SPRINGS • A nonprofit that helps find new homes for pets of terminally ill patients is among 11 nonprofits and businesses that likely will be forced to move when the city replaces the aging Colorado Springs Senior Center next year. Safe Place for Pets, whose pets are featured for adoption in The Tribune each…
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Colorado Springs decision to lease hospital system to UCHealth ‘a smashing success’
When UCHealth began leasing the Memorial Hospital system from the city of Colorado Springs 10 years ago, the system was losing money and market share, was having trouble attracting and retaining medical staff and needed millions of dollars in maintenance. Today, the system is profitable, has regained and added to its market share, nearly doubled…
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Colorado Springs’ Aerospace Corp. expects to move quickly amid space industry surge
Aerospace Corp. cut the ribbon Tuesday on its just-completed $100 million Space Warfighting Center, and the company’s CEO believes the building will reach its 250-employee capacity in as soon as five years amid surging growth in the space industry. Steve Isakowitz said employees won’t start moving into the building until early next year. The company’s…
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Frontier Airlines ending service at Colorado Springs Airport
Frontier Airlines will halt flights to Colorado Springs on Nov. 4, Colorado Springs Airport officials announced Friday. Jennifer de la Cruz, senior director of corporate communications for the Denver-based low-fare carrier, confirmed the move, saying, “We periodically review and update our routes based on demand, seasonality, and other factors. We continue to offer service to…
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Frontier ending service at Colorado Springs Airport
Frontier Airlines will halt flights to Colorado Springs on Nov. 4, Colorado Springs Airport officials announced Friday. Jennifer de la Cruz, senior director of corporate communications for the Denver-based low-fare carrier, confirmed the move, saying, “We periodically review and update our routes based on demand, seasonality, and other factors. We continue to offer service to…
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Colorado Springs’ O’Neil Group building defense-based group of companies
Less than a year after selling his family’s Colorado Springs-based defense conglomerate, Kevin O’Neil is trying to build another one. The O’Neil Group, a private-equity company, sold Braxton Science & Technology Group to Virginia-based engineering and construction giant Parsons for $300 million in December, 12 years after buying a majority interest in the small California-based…
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Colorado Springs auto dealers struggle with tight supply
High prices and low inventory are putting the brakes on auto sales. That isn’t likely to change soon — shortages of computer chips and other components are expected to hamper the automotive industry well into next year. Most car dealers have just a fraction of the new vehicle inventory they had before the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting…
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O’Neil Group buys majority ownership in Springs analytics company
Six months after acquiring a major stake in Colorado Springs-based data analysis company BlueStaq, The O’Neil Group has bought majority ownership in another data analytics company, Innovative Scientific Solutions & Analytics, or ISSAC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but ISSAC CEO Tim Jones will remain in his role and O’Neil will retain the…
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Work underway on $500M project to serve as ‘new front door’ for Air Force Academy
A $500 million project to build what developer Dan Schnepf calls a “new front door” for the Air Force Academy is underway after more than a decade of planning. TrueNorth Commons, spread over 32 acres just outside the security checkpoint of the academy’s north gate, is planned to include a new, larger visitors center, a…