41°
Name:
Screen name:
Email:
Billionaire investor Mark Walter, the owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is staking a claim in Gunnison County. A lot of claims, actually. The Chicago financier this year has quietly acquired six...
DATE: April 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News
Durango’s high cost of housing has Fort Lewis College looking at ways to help employees, faculty and staff members with homeownership costs. FLC’s board of trustees heard results from a survey of...
DATE: April 9, 2021 | UPDATED: 5 days 3 hours ago | CATEGORY: Local News
A year ago, many people scoffed when John Wells, owner-broker of The Wells Group, predicted the then-emerging novel coronavirus, the first serious viral pandemic since the Spanish Flu of 1918,...
DATE: April 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Business
Through the quiet neighborhoods came the steady sound of a hammer, the sharp zing of a circular saw and laughter on a jobsite. For a long time, it seemed unfair that the building industry pushed...
DATE: April 3, 2021 | COLUMN: HBA Building Today
COVID-19 might soon be a thing of the past now that several vaccines are widely available. But some adaptations to deal with the novel coronavirus are likely here to stay. Housing market heats up...
DATE: March 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News
A remodel to modernize the top floor of the The Durango Herald building begins this week that will also provide an additional 3,200 square feet of office space for lease. The project is expected...
DATE: Feb. 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News
Total home sales in January in La Plata County likely set a monthly record. That seemingly answers the question: Would the arrival of a COVID-19 vaccine and the cold month’s slow selling period...
DATE: Feb. 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: Business
Durango residents will soon say goodbye to the red Chamber of Commerce building at Santa Rita Park. In January, the city of Durango put the decades-old, wood-framed building up for auction. Bidders...
DATE: Feb. 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News
Most businesses relished seeing 2020, the year of COVID-19, fade into the rearview mirror, but there was one big exception: Real estate was hot on the Western Slope, and La Plata County and Durango...
DATE: Jan. 21, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News
Prices are at record highs. Supplies of mountain homes for sale have never been lower. Across Colorado’s high country, resort community real estate sales have set records since July. Through...
DATE: Jan. 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Business
Prices are at record highs. Supplies of mountain homes for sale have never been lower. Across Colorado’s high country, resort community real estate sales have set records since July. Through...
DATE: Dec. 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: Business
Durango School District 9-R agreed Tuesday to enter negotiations with the city of Durango to find a land swap that would preserve Buckley Park. The school board voted 4-0 to accept a memorandum of...
DATE: Dec. 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News
