A La Marzocco — that high-end commercial machine found in so many specialty espresso bars — can easily set you back $17,000. “They’re a big investment — I mean, that’s a car,” Congruent Services owner Vance Garrett said. “But they’ll last as long or

When Clint Knox sold Spree Racing — the event management company that put on the Big Gay 5K and the Colorado Springs Marathon, among others — he assured his wife he’d wait at least a year before starting another business.Two months later he had the…

Two days after Halloween, Jessica and Mark Modeer will close the doors on their beloved Zeezo’s forever. But the downtown costume store — a Springs institution after 40 years — has already steered them into a new venture that’s…

Clay Guillory still has the $400 “monster” that first propelled him into the world of 3D printing. “I wanted to get into make-n-bake 3D print stuff,” he recalls, “but I started with a little kit I found online. It was a terrible kit — kept falling…

If you want to surf — yes, surf — in Colorado, Troy Juth and his team can show you where. If you want to learn to scuba dive in Colorado Springs, they can show you how. The thousand-odd miles between the Front Range and the nearest ocean are no…

Gundega Stevens has a passion for contemporary abstracts, and a gallery on South Eighth Street, and a knack for helping people feel at home with art.“People get nervous about artwork if they don’t know anything about art,” she says, “and I tell them…

Show Melissa Howard a challenge, and she’ll dive in head first. “We heard the Carter Payne Chapel might be available … nobody knew if the tenant was going to stay or not,” she recalls, “so like a crazy person I got in the car and drove to Texas and…

Louis Savaglio’s first car was a rust-riddled 1938 Ford, bought for $30 when he was 13. It was also his first business lesson. “I bought it at one of the bodyshops I hung around,” he recalled. “It had surface rust all over, and he had a grinder there…

When Natasha Main stepped up as executive director at Peak Startup in June last year, she also took a “step back.” “For Peak Startup, we took a step back when I was hired — in a really great way — to reassess and speak with the community … looking to…

Leah Davis Witherow is the archivist and curator of history at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, and she’ll tell you she has the best job in the world. “I went to 12 or 13 schools before graduating from high school — we were a military family,…

For most students, heading off to college marks their first bold voyage into the unknown. For Lily Weissgold, though, coming to Colorado College meant reining in her travels. “I spent the last two years of high school abroad,” Weissgold recalls.…

Niki Fields was 25 when she and husband Travis launched FH Beerworks, and 30 when they opened their new Eastside expansion three weeks ago — and she’s not one to let obstacles win. When the couple fronted the Downtown Review Board for approval of…