{"id":63952,"date":"2018-07-22T13:54:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T19:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/front-range-businesses-migrating-to-the-western-slope\/"},"modified":"2018-07-22T19:54:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T19:54:30","slug":"front-range-businesses-migrating-to-the-western-slope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/front-range-businesses-migrating-to-the-western-slope\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Range businesses migrating to the Western Slope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=6d2277e0-6796-4349-9258-84f8f263f283&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" alt=\"Chris Curry works on a camper trailer in the Timberleaf Trailer workshop in Grand Junction, where he moved his business after being priced out of Denver.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Chris Curry works on a camper trailer in the Timberleaf Trailer workshop in Grand Junction, where he moved his business after being priced out of Denver.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Alex Scoville\/CPR News<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Kevin Molick found a new calling when he started his camper trailer company, Timberleaf Teardrop Trailers. The custom-made, technicolor retro campers were a hit. After two years, it was time to expand.<\/p>\n<p>But suddenly, Molick\u2019s home of 40 years \u2013 Denver \u2013 was no longer a comfortable fit. Real estate was too expensive for his burgeoning business to survive. Timberleaf sells about 30 trailers a year, each starting at $20,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just too competitive there,\u201d Molick said. \u201cI don\u2019t have that much of a mark-up to be able to afford twice the rent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Timberleaf started looking around Colorado and even out of state, in Houston and Salt Lake City. But the outdoors environment there wasn\u2019t the right fit.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpr.org\/news\/story\/as-front-rage-prices-rise-businesses-look-to-the-western-slope-to-expand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado Public Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>prices driving the migration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-63952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63952"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=63952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}