Great Southwest Mortgage, Arizona’s largest privately held mortgage bank, has expanded into Colorado with 12 branches along the Front Range. Great Southwest will have branches in Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Loveland, Englewood, Highlands Ranch and Centennial.
SBIR Colorado honored five Colorado businesses Wednesday night as winners of its annual awards competition. The winners, companies that successfully used Small Business Innovation Research funding, were Aerophase, Coherent Technologies Inc., DPHI Inc., NavSys Corp. and PowerSicel Inc.
Re/Max International announced Thursday that sales associates affiliated with the company helped nearly 60,000 families buy or sell homes in Colorado in 2005, with transactions valued at $15.5 billion, up 3 percent from the previous year.
Point B Solutions Group LLP, a Denver business-consulting firm, announced Thursday it recently opened an office in the San Francisco area. The new practice, Point B’s fifth in the Western U.S., is being led by Keola Caindec.
Ross Dress for Less will open a store today in the second phase of the Marketplace at Centerra in Loveland.
Sunflower Markets, a Longmont-based grocer, on Thursday said it will open a store at East Mississippi Avenue and South Dayton Street in south Denver in 2007. The company also said future stores will bear the Sunflower Farmers Market name to emphasize the company’s focus on fresh produce.
United Airlines said it is starting daily flights June 8 on ex-plus regional jets from Denver to Cincinnati, twice-daily flights from Denver to Idaho Falls, Idaho, and seasonal weekend flights from Denver to Redmond, Ore.
Jeppesen of Arapahoe County will provide its Airport Mapping Database for the On-Board Airport Navigation System developed by Thales for Airbus aircraft.
Adolfson & Peterson Construction of Aurora announced Thursday it is set to begin work on two projects for the Roaring Forks School District. Roaring Forks High School, a 90,000-square-foot high school, is scheduled to be finished in July 2007. The Crystal River Elementary School project, a 60,000-square-foot addition, will be completed this December.
China Wireless Communications Inc. of Denver announced Thursday it has created a new North American division, CW Communications Inc.
Denver Camping World SuperCenter will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Good Sam Club on Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m. at 4100 Youngfield St. in Wheat Ridge. The club was started informally in 1966 by Trail-R-News magazine to provide a system of volunteer assistance for RV owners in trouble while on the road.
Ball Corp. will make a presentation March 16 at the Lehman Brothers 2006 High- Yield Bond and Syndicated Loan Conference in Orlando, Fla. Scott C. Morrison, vice president and treasurer, will speak at 9:30 a.m.
