Rich Laden is a Business Writer at the Colorado Springs Gazette. He specializes in various topics including construction and real estate, retail, and food and beverages, with a keen focus on regional interest and legal affairs in Colorado. Rich's work has been featured in The Denver Gazette, Yahoo News, and The Colorado Springs Gazette, LLC.
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Rich Laden's reporting primarily focuses on local real estate, retail development, and economic news in Colorado Springs. He frequently covers private sector announcements and press releases related to these areas.
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By: Rich Laden
A proposal submitted to city government officials indicates that Barnes & Noble, the nation's largest bookseller, is eying a new store at the First & Main Town Center, the retail complex on the Springs' east side. Barnes & Noble has two existing stores in the city.
By: Breeanna Jent
of 2 Restaurant owners and operators like to point to a statistic that underscores the value of their industry: 100% of people get hungry.
By: Rich Laden
The California-based, fast-casual restaurant chain is targeting a 2025 construction start for its latest Colorado Springs-area restaurant, which would be built in the Polaris Pointe development, southwest of North Gate Boulevard and Voyager Parkway. It would be Chipotle's 12th restaurant in the Springs area and its fourth new location since 2022.
A longtime Red Lobster restaurant at 4925 N. Academy Blvd. in northern Colorado Springs was shuttered in August, a closure that stemmed from the seafood chain's bankruptcy filing a few
of 7 Like previous years, Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region saw their share of retail and restaurant openings and closings in
By: Rich Laden
Colorado Springs saw a jump in the pace of new home construction last year, but questions remain in 2025 about what impact mortgage rates and Trump administration policies will have on the housing market in the new year.
McDonald's recently opened this restaurant at 1103 N. Circle Drive, northeast of Circle and Galley Road in central Colorado Springs. The fast-food giant also is moving forward with plans for
The historic Briarhurst Manor Estate in Manitou Springs, a fine-dining restaurant for decades that's operated in a Victorian manor house built in 1876 by Manitou Springs founder Dr. William Bell,
of 2 The Briarhurst Manor Estate in Manitou Springs, a Pikes Peak region landmark that's operated as a fine-dining restaurant for a half-century
By: Rich Laden
Whatever happened to plans for a new hotel south of downtown and an event center on the site of the old Sunbird restaurant? Here's a look at the status of those and a few other high-profile projects that were proposed in the Colorado Springs area over the past few years.
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