Colorado Springs Business Brokers Who Sit With You Before They Sell For You.
You have carried this through Pikes Peak winters, Cheyenne Mountain wind events, Peterson Space Force Base assignment cycles, and Fort Carson rotation cadence. You can name which customer has been with you since the days before Peterson became a Space Force base, and which dispatcher reads the difference between a Briargate run and a Security-Widefield run when an October squall rolls in over Cheyenne Mountain. Selling your business is not a transaction question. It is a question about what happens to the people who trusted you, what your life looks like on the other side of the wire, and whether the timing fits the rest of the story you are still writing. Our Colorado Springs business brokers and M&A advisors sit with you in that decision before we run the process.
We love when you call, though we spend most of our time on the phone closing deals for owners like you. The form below is the fastest way to reach a CGK Colorado Springs principal directly. They reply within one business day, usually much sooner.
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“Most of the Pikes Peak region owners we sit with do not call us ready to sell. They call because something has shifted, and they want to think it through with someone who reads both the financials and the part of the decision that does not show up in a spreadsheet.
We start there.”
A note from Greg Knox · Managing Principal, CGK Business Sales
Questions Pikes Peak region owners are asking themselves right now.
These are the questions that show up at four in the morning before any of it is shared. Our Colorado Springs business brokers have heard each of them across years of Pikes Peak region engagements with privately-held Southern Colorado owners.
How Colorado Springs business brokers at CGK actually run a sell-side engagement.
Three places consistently leak value on a Pikes Peak business sale: mispricing at the front door, writing the CIM for the wrong reader, and losing grip on the file between LOI and wire. Our Colorado Springs business brokers close each leak. Here is what that work looks like from the seller’s seat.
Most Pikes Peak owners do not lose the price they should have cleared because of the market. They lose it because of three specific places where listing brokers consistently leak value. Three places. Three disciplines. Each one closes a leak the listing-broker model leaves open.
Place one: at the front door, by mispricing the business going in.
A listing broker pulls a multiple from a databook, slaps it on twelve months of summary financials, and calls it a valuation. That is how most agents selling businesses approach pricing. The number is wrong by enough to matter on every Colorado Springs engagement we have ever inherited from a broken listing. The CGK Colorado Springs valuation work runs the model on your specific Pikes Peak business with the comparable transactions a sophisticated buyer will actually use, and lands the band the active buyer pool for your industry will defend. A Briargate cleared-workforce ISR contractor gets the cleared-bench premium priced. A Cheyenne Mountain corridor cardiology group gets the payer-mix and privilege continuity priced. A Manitou Springs tourism-corridor restaurant group gets the chef-leadership and lease-portfolio continuity priced. If we tell you to wait six months and let the year finish landing the way it is going to land, we mean it. That call alone is the difference between the price you should clear and the price a hurried listing produces.
Place two: at the CIM, by writing for the wrong reader.
A listing broker writes a marketing brochure. CGK writes a Confidential Information Memorandum for the specific buyer pool that will set your price. The cleared-workforce ISR contractor gets contract maturity by program, cleared headcount to the TS/SCI and Polygraph tier, and USSF and DoD assignment timing written for the buyer who actually buys government-services platforms. The cardiology group gets payer mix by physician, procedural cardiology revenue waterfalls, and UCHealth Memorial and Penrose-St. Francis privilege language written for the cardiology platform consolidator. The restaurant group gets covers by day-part by location, the chef-leadership continuity, and the Pikes Peak tourism-corridor identity written for the restaurateur-buyer’s lens. Every page has to defend a number, not just describe a business. Outreach goes out as a blind teaser that never names the company. Every serious buyer signs an NDA before the CIM is released. Information moves to buyers in tiers across the cycle so leverage stays in your hands.
Place three: between LOI and wire, by losing grip on the file.
This is where most engagements quietly come apart. The buyer’s analyst team runs their review. Their lawyer drafts a purchase agreement that softens the LOI terms. The escrow gets proposed at the buyer’s template number instead of one calibrated to your industry. Open questions pile up. The seller’s operating week gets eaten by document requests. Six months in, the deal that looked locked at LOI is being renegotiated on the buyer’s preferred terms. CGK runs the work after LOI deliberately: LOI terms defended in every purchase-agreement draft, escrow sized to your business’s real risk profile, open questions answered before they calcify into deal-killers, schedule coordinated so buyer review work does not bleed into your operating day. The named CGK principal who opened the engagement sits in every closing-side conversation through wire. That back-half discipline is the second half of why nine in ten CGK engagements close while the broader brokerage industry sits closer to two in ten.
Start with a free Colorado Springs business valuation conversation.
Pikes Peak owners come to our Colorado Springs business brokers with four questions at the free walkthrough. The walkthrough is built to answer all four in a single working session, in person or by Zoom. No commitment. No pressure. No sales pitch.
Pikes Peak owners show up at the free walkthrough with four questions. CGK’s job is to give you a defensible answer to each one in the same working session.
What is the number, today, in this Pikes Peak buyer pool?
A senior CGK principal sits with you, in person or by Zoom, opens our valuation model calibrated to your specific Colorado Springs business, and walks you through the price band you are likely to clear in today’s active buyer pool. You see the methodology, the comparable transactions, the buyer-pool depth, and the math behind the band. The walkthrough is free for any Pikes Peak region owner seriously thinking about selling on any horizon, whether you are a year out, five years out, or “I just want to know what the number actually looks like right now.” No commitment to engage afterward.
What would lift the number between now and going to market?
Most Pikes Peak businesses have specific items that, addressed during a runway, lift the band the business clears. Maybe the named manager between you and a key customer relationship. Maybe the trailing financials cleaned up to the shape a sophisticated buyer expects. Maybe the staff retention agreements that lock the people who matter. The walkthrough names the items specific to your business, sized in dollars where we can size them, so the runway work has a clear payback.
What would defend the number at the LOI table?
Sophisticated Colorado Springs buyers (Front Range PE platforms, Pikes Peak family offices, Mountain West consolidators, industry strategics) will press hard on the number at LOI with their own analytical team. CGK’s role is to hold the price up under that pressure with model defense, comparable-transaction backup, and industry-specific argument. Greg Knox, CFA, the CGK Principal carrying the CFA charter, backs the analytical defense on every Colorado Springs engagement that needs CFA-level rigor at the LOI table. A defensible Colorado Springs valuation becomes the floor on your deal. A soft one becomes the ceiling.
When is a written valuation memo the right tool instead?
Sometimes the free walkthrough is not the deliverable you actually need. If your CPA, your attorney, your spouse, an SBA lender, the IRS, a Colorado court overseeing a partnership buyout, an estate-planning advisor, or an ESOP trustee needs a formal written valuation memo, that work sits outside the sell-side engagement as a separate fixed-fee project. The deliverable is a written memo carrying four independent valuation approaches, an executive summary, and a frank conversation about the specific items that could lift the number before the business goes to market. If you later engage CGK to sell, the written memo work credits against the success fee.
Start with a confidential conversation.
A senior CGK Colorado Springs principal will respond within one business day to schedule a free verbal valuation, in person, or by Zoom. For Pikes Peak region owners with $1.5M+ in annual revenue. Strictly confidential. No commitment.
Confidential. No obligation. Direct routing to a named CGK principal, not a junior screener.
Buy a Colorado business with CGK Colorado Springs business brokers.
Our Colorado Springs business brokers run buy-side in three engagement structures: the single-target search mandate, the portfolio rollup mandate, and the Micro Private Equity partnership. Each gets a different engagement contract built around the same senior representation.
CGK Colorado Springs buy-side comes in three engagement structures. The work is built differently for each. CGK Colorado Springs runs as a team-coordinated market: each buy-side engagement gets a single named CGK principal who carries the file start to finish, drawn from the firm’s full Principal bench. Greg Knox, Managing Principal and CFA charterholder, backs every Colorado Springs buy-side analysis with the model defense a CFA charterholder brings. Buy-side and sell-side are separate engagements with separate compensation; we never represent both sides of any single deal.
The single-target search mandate.
You want one Pikes Peak region acquisition, you know your investment thesis, and you want CGK’s senior representation through search, deal evaluation, structuring, lender introductions where appropriate, and close coordination. The mandate runs for the duration of one specific transaction. Most search funders, PE platforms running a single Colorado Springs add-on thesis, family offices acquiring a single Pikes Peak business, and strategic acquirers sourcing a single bolt-on engage on this structure. Submit the buyer-qualification form, and a senior CGK principal will review your thesis.
The portfolio rollup mandate.
You are running a multi-deal Pikes Peak or Mountain West rollup thesis (home-services consolidation, defense-services bolt-ons, healthcare platform expansion, distribution rollup) and want CGK as the continuous buy-side source across the rollup. The mandate runs for the duration of the rollup, multiple transactions, with deal sourcing across the entire CGK national footprint, not just the Colorado Springs book. PE platforms running active multi-quarter rollups, regional consolidators with continuous add-on appetite, and industry strategics building out a Pikes Peak presence engage on this structure.
The Micro Private Equity partnership.
For first-time, high-net-worth operator-buyers stepping into business ownership for the first time, the CGK Micro Private Equity Program is built as a long-term partnership rather than a one-time advisory engagement. We trade the standard transaction fee for a small equity stake in the platform you acquire. More cash stays with the business at closing. CGK keeps real skin in the game alongside you. We keep working together to source add-on acquisitions and bolt CGK’s operating support onto your platform. Micro PE participants also see off-market Pikes Peak region and Southern Colorado acquisitions sourced through CGK’s cross-office relationships. The Micro Private Equity Program is reserved for first-time, high-net-worth operator-buyers; it is not available to search funders, PE platforms, or family offices. If you are open to CGK as a long-term equity partner, mention “Micro PE” in the buyer-qualification form.
Submit your buyer profile.
Submit the form below for a senior CGK Colorado Springs principal to review. CGK keeps a curated buyer list and reaches out when an active engagement aligns with your stated criteria, capital, and timeline.
Confidential. Your profile is added to CGK’s curated buyer list. We reach out when an active Colorado engagement aligns.
From first Colorado Springs conversation to wire transfer.
Most engagements our Colorado Springs business brokers carry run six to twelve months from signed engagement to wire transfer. Some clear in three to six. Healthcare-services groups, residential trade-services platforms with clean recurring-revenue schedules, and home-services groups tend to land toward the faster end of the window when the diligence file is already in shape. Cleared-workforce defense services platforms with USSF and DoD prime-and-subprime assignment-timing tails and hospitality groups exposed to the Pikes Peak peak-shoulder-trough seasonality cycle tend to run longer because of contract assignment timing, security-clearance continuity verification, and trailing-twelve-month stabilization windows. Here is what a typical seller journey looks like, stop by stop.
Confidential conversation
You call us or submit the form. We listen. No pressure, no commitment. Our Colorado Springs business brokers tell you whether and when CGK is the right fit.
Free verbal valuation
Derik, with Greg backing the analytics, in person or by Zoom, walks you through our valuation model and the price range your Colorado Springs business is likely to clear.
Engagement & prep
A signed engagement lands on a success-fee basis. We help close the items that affect the final price: financial recasting, document cleanup, and the management-team questions buyers will dig into that lift the final price. Colorado-specific items get sequenced into the diligence file early.
To market & buyer process
The blind teaser drops, the full Confidential Information Memorandum follows soon after, a structured data room opens for qualified buyers, and a multi-buyer competitive process runs under NDA. Indications of Interest come in across the cycle.
LOI & diligence
Weeks 12 through 16: LOI signed, the buyer’s counsel drafts the purchase agreement, the review coordinator runs the schedule. Our work during this period is to enforce the LOI terms on the purchase agreement, size the escrow to the actual risk in your business, and protect your operating day from the buyer’s review work. The LOI terms stay the LOI terms through to the wire.
Closing & wire
When closing arrives, the documents are signed, the escrow is funded, and the wire clears. The transition has been built throughout the engagement, not improvised on the day of close. Your operating team keeps doing what they do, with the support of a buyer who signed for the people.
The industries anchoring the CGK Colorado Springs book.
Colorado Springs sits at the intersection of the USSF Peterson Space Force Base / Schriever / US Air Force Academy / NORAD / Fort Carson defense corridor, a deepening Pikes Peak healthcare cluster anchored by UCHealth Memorial and Penrose-St. Francis and Children’s Colorado-Springs, a long-running tourism-and-hospitality overlay from Manitou Springs to Garden of the Gods to the Broadmoor, and a residential-construction boom along the Briargate, Northgate, and Black Forest corridor. The Briargate and Northgate family-office bench, the Sun Belt and Rocky Mountain PE consolidator layer, and the Security-Widefield and Fort Carson trade-services book each pull a specific buyer pool. CGK Colorado Springs engagements span both High Main Street and lower-middle-market bands.
Plus deal experience across 30+ industries. Don’t see yours? Our Colorado business brokers have closed deals in almost every Pikes Peak region industry, including some very niche businesses.
Meet your Colorado Springs business brokers and the national bench behind them.
CGK Colorado Springs runs as a team-coordinated market, not a one-principal office. The full CGK Principal bench carries Colorado Springs engagements: Derik Polay brings more than twenty years of M&A, distressed securities, and capital-markets work. Wes McDonough brings twenty-five-plus years of M&A, corporate finance, and entrepreneurial operating experience. Myres Tilghman brings a twenty-five-year career in finance and capital markets with eighteen years trading international derivatives. Matthew Mistica brings fifteen-plus years of finance and entrepreneurship with seven years of corporate finance at Chevron and Shell. Jason Clendaniel brings a Naval Academy economics background plus a decade in Navy service and a decade in S&P 500 sales and M&A. Eric Lewis brings twenty-plus years across Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Cargill, and TD Options. Matthew Zienty brings twenty-five-plus years across Deutsche Bank, SunAmerica Securities, and AIG Financial Advisors. Greg Knox, Managing Principal and CFA charterholder, backs every Colorado Springs valuation and the larger M&A engagements with the analytical defense a CFA charterholder brings to LOI-stage pressure. Each Colorado Springs engagement is carried end to end by a single named CGK principal, with the broader bench coordinating on the work as it demands.
What Pikes Peak region owners say about CGK.
Wes was outstanding, guiding us through each step, offering perspective and solutions. His dedication, perseverance, and ingenuity made our business sale happen. I strongly recommend Wes and CGK Business Sales.
Suzanne PiispanenThe team at CGK Business Sales did an outstanding job in selling my business. They were professional, responsive, and worked diligently to find the right buyer. I highly recommend their services.
Josh FowlerMaking the decision to sell was tough, but Wes McDonough at CGK was tremendous from start to finish. We confidently entered an agreement thanks to the groundwork by Wes and his team.
Christy GuthrieInside the Blueprint, on Bloomberg TV and Fox Business News.
CGK Business Sales was featured on Inside the Blueprint, the syndicated business television series. Our episode aired on Bloomberg TV and Fox Business News. We are usually the only Colorado Springs M&A advisors on a Pikes Peak region seller’s shortlist who can point to a Bloomberg appearance. Watch the segment, then start a confidential conversation with our Colorado Springs team.
Four Pikes Peak region owner stories, four CGK Colorado Springs engagements.
The four composite seller stories below sit inside the structural Pikes Peak mix our Colorado Springs business brokers see most often: a Briargate cleared-workforce ISR contractor rolling into a Rocky-Mountain-region government-services consolidator, a Briargate three-physician cardiology practice taken by a primary-care PE platform, an Old Colorado City and Manitou Springs Italian restaurant group sold to a Pikes Peak-area restaurateur with family-office co-investment, and a Security-Widefield independent auto repair shop sold to a Rocky Mountain auto-services consolidator. Names, locations, and identifying details are composited; the structural patterns are real. Each story shows what the engagement felt like from the seller’s seat.
How a cleared-workforce intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance contractor found a Rocky-Mountain regional platform with the Colorado Springs business brokers who priced the TS/SCI bench correctly.
The Colorado Springs business brokers carrying Bill’s engagement opened the file by listening, not by listing. Bill is a career Army intelligence and signal officer, 24 years of service, with his last assignment at the NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex before retiring as a Lt Colonel in 2009. He launched the cleared-workforce ISR firm in 2010 from his Briargate home office, scaling it across the next decade into a meaningful contractor footprint at USSF Peterson Space Force Base and Schriever Space Force Base. By the time he called us, the platform cleared $32 million in revenue at a 16 percent EBITDA margin, structurally clean for a Pikes Peak region cleared-workforce defense-services contractor of that size. The 110-person W-2 staff carried 80 cleared engineers and analysts at the TS/SCI tier, with a subset cleared to Polygraph. The contract mix landed across six active prime-and-subprime contracts spanning USSF, the US Air Force Academy, and Fort Carson combatant command support, averaging a 5-year remaining contract life. Top-3 customer concentration sat at a manageable 29 percent. Bill’s wife is a retired Air Force medical officer who finished her career at the Air Force Academy clinic and now leads a Pikes Peak-area veterans’ nonprofit. Their three adult kids are scattered: a USAFA graduate now flying at Ramstein, an Army Ranger officer stationed at Fort Liberty, and a Colorado College graduate now in San Francisco. Bill wanted the next chapter on his church’s leadership succession program and on a veteran-owned-business mentorship program he had been quietly building.
The first call ran fifty-five minutes. Bill walked us through how Doug Henderson, his longtime senior intelligence engineer and a fellow retired Army intel officer who joined him in 2011 after Doug’s Army separation at Fort Carson, had become the institutional voice on the cleared engineering bench; how the six prime-and-subprime contracts had stayed durable through two Space Force redesignation cycles and a Peterson-and-Schriever operating-rhythm transition; how PE-backed government-services consolidator scouts had been calling the Briargate office twice a month for two years; and how none of those scouts had asked about Doug or about how the TS/SCI bench fed the active program book. He did not know whether the platform numbers he was hearing reflected the cleared-workforce premium his contract base actually carried or the underwriter discount that larger consolidators apply by default. We told him what to expect from each band of buyer, then we set up a free valuation walkthrough.
The Colorado Springs business brokers at CGK walked Bill through a valuation that priced the cleared-workforce bench correctly, the USSF Peterson program continuity, the Schriever mission-systems pipeline, the US Air Force Academy support work, the small Fort Carson combatant command piece, and Doug’s continuity at the senior engineering layer. The valuation also flagged what the diligence file would need: a contract-by-contract program waterfall with remaining-life and option-period detail, a cleared-headcount schedule documented to the TS/SCI and Polygraph tier, named retention agreements at the senior engineering bench, prime-and-subprime assignment language calibrated to USSF and DoD timing, and a clean USSF novation and DoD assignment opinion from his defense-contract counsel. Bill spent four months getting that done. Then we took the platform to market.
Government-services consolidation in the Rocky Mountain and Sun Belt regions is structurally active and the buyer-pool depth showed it. Roughly 195 buyers signaled interest off the blind teaser. About 125 signed NDAs. Fourteen LOIs landed. The pool was the structural mix the Pikes Peak cleared-workforce defense-services industry tends to attract at this size: a handful of HNW former government-services-executive buyers, a real cohort of search funders, several independent sponsors, the heaviest concentration of bidders from mid-market and lower-middle-market PE government-services platforms (the dominant cohort, since Rocky Mountain government-services rollup is hot), regional Colorado Springs and Front Range family offices with USSF and Space Force exposure, large national strategics with cleared-workforce theses, and a couple of veteran-owned PE funds with government-services theses. Five LOIs advanced to a final round. Bill chose the second-highest headline because the buyer (a PE-backed government services consolidator with a Rocky Mountain and Sun Belt regional brand, 14 government-services platforms in their existing portfolio across CO, NM, AZ, UT, and AL, sponsored by a Denver-based mid-market PE fund) committed to keeping the cleared engineering bench together with compensation continuity, kept the Briargate headquarters operating under existing branding, and named Bill as senior strategic advisor for 24 months at one day per week. The deal closed at 76 percent cash at close, 12 percent in a twenty-four-month escrow (longer than the standard twelve to cover USSF contract performance-bond tail risk, cleared-workforce continuity verification, and prime/subprime status assignment timing), and 12 percent rolled forward as equity in the consolidator’s holding company. Wire hit on a Tuesday at 10:47 a.m. Bill called his wife from the Briargate office in plain English. “It’s done.” His wife simply said “Twenty-four years of service and one more chapter starting.” Bill then drove to the home of Doug Henderson, his fellow retired Army intel officer and senior engineer, and shook his hand on the front porch.
“Twenty-four years in uniform, fifteen years building this. The buyer kept the cleared bench together. That is the inheritance.”
How a three-physician Briargate cardiology practice went to a Rocky-Mountain primary-care platform with the business brokers Colorado Springs teams who priced procedural cardiology correctly.
The Colorado Springs business brokers who carried Karen’s engagement spent the first hour on the practice’s history before discussing valuation. Karen was born and raised in Colorado Springs. Her father ran a Manitou Springs hardware store for thirty-five years. Her mother taught at Cheyenne Mountain Junior High. Karen graduated CU School of Medicine in 1996, completed internal medicine residency at UCHealth, finished a cardiology fellowship at University of Colorado Hospital, then came home to Colorado Springs and opened her Briargate cardiology practice in 2005 to serve the rapidly growing Northern Colorado Springs population. By the time she called us, the practice ran as Karen plus one additional cardiologist and a cardiology nurse practitioner, supported by 22 W-2 staff including four RNs, an echo tech, a stress-test coordinator, and a cardiology billing specialist. The service mix landed at 40 percent outpatient cardiology consultations and follow-up, 30 percent in-office diagnostic testing (echo, stress tests, Holter monitoring), 20 percent procedural cardiology (cardioversions, device interrogations), and 10 percent a small chronic-care-management program for heart-failure patients. UCHealth Memorial and Penrose-St. Francis privileges were active across the clinical team. The payer mix sat at the texture a Briargate cardiology practice tends to carry given the Pikes Peak demographic mix: roughly 32 percent commercial, 28 percent Medicare, 22 percent Medicare Advantage, 12 percent TRICARE (the Pikes Peak military-family marker), and 6 percent other. Revenue cleared $5.4 million at a 28 percent EBITDA margin, defensibly clean for a three-clinician cardiology group at that scale in Northern Colorado Springs. Karen had been recruited as Director of Cardiology Services at UCHealth’s expanded Briargate medical campus, an academic-and-administrative role that did not allow her to keep her private practice. Her husband is a Cheyenne Mountain High School teacher. Their daughter is a CU Boulder undergrad; their son is at the Air Force Academy.
Cardiology PE rollup is structurally hot in suburban markets with Medicare-heavy demographics, and the buyer profile reflected it. Karen had been approached eight times in two years: three times by national cardiology platform consolidators, twice by Rocky-Mountain-aligned PE platforms, twice by UCHealth-aligned VBC-thesis platforms, and once by a regional cardiology group running a Colorado expansion. None of those scouts had walked her through how the buyer’s review team would price the balance between outpatient consultations and the procedural cardiology revenue line, the UCHealth Memorial and Penrose-St. Francis hospital-privilege continuity, or the institutional weight her senior cardiology NP Beth McGarvey, a longtime Colorado Springs-native clinician who had been with the practice since 2008, carried with the longtime patient panel. She called us the week the UCHealth offer landed in writing.
The first call ran fifty-one minutes. Karen walked us through the founding, the way the Briargate population had compounded steadily through the 2010s and 2020s alongside Northern Colorado Springs residential growth, the way Beth McGarvey had become the institutional voice on the cardiology floor, and the conversations she had been having with the second cardiologist about whether he wanted to stay through a change of control. The valuation walkthrough showed Karen a band that priced the outpatient consultation book, the in-office diagnostic testing line, the procedural cardiology revenue, the chronic-care-management program, the UCHealth Memorial and Penrose-St. Francis privilege continuity, and Beth McGarvey’s continuity at the senior nursing layer. The valuation also flagged what the diligence file would need: a payer-mix-by-physician waterfall with full UCHealth Memorial and Penrose-St. Francis privilege documentation, a TRICARE-revenue breakout by panel cohort, a procedural-cardiology revenue breakout by procedure type, named-clinician retention agreements with the second cardiologist and the NP, and a clean Pikes Peak-region commercial-payer documentation set. Karen spent four months getting that done. The Colorado Springs business brokers at CGK took the practice to market.
Briargate cardiology with a balanced consultation-diagnostic-procedural mix draws a deep buyer pool. Roughly 155 buyers signaled interest off the blind teaser. About 92 signed NDAs. Eleven LOIs landed. The pool was the structural mix the cardiology industry tends to attract in Northern Colorado Springs: a few HNW physician-investor buyers, search funders, independent sponsors, the heaviest concentration of bidders from mid-market PE cardiology platform consolidators (the dominant cohort, since cardiology PE rollup is hot in suburban markets with Medicare-heavy demographics), UCHealth-aligned and Penrose-aligned VBC-thesis platforms, regional cardiology groups, and a couple of Colorado family offices with healthcare-services theses. Four LOIs advanced to a final round. Karen chose the second-highest headline because the buyer (a PE-backed cardiology platform consolidator with a Rocky Mountain and Sun Belt thesis, 18-plus cardiology groups in their existing portfolio across CO, UT, AZ, NM, and NV, sponsored by a Salt Lake City mid-market PE fund) committed to keeping all 22 staff and all three clinicians under their current contracts, kept the Briargate office, and named Karen as senior medical advisor for 18 months at one day per week. The deal closed at 80 percent cash at close, 8 percent in a twelve-month escrow for general indemnity, and 12 percent rolled forward as equity in the platform’s holding company. Wire hit on a Friday at 11:42 a.m. Karen called her father (now 84, retired in Manitou Springs) from her Briargate office. Her father, the longtime Manitou hardware-store owner, simply said “Your mom would be proud.” Karen then walked the practice with Beth McGarvey, the two of them standing for a long moment at the door of the procedural cardiology suite.
“I needed a buyer who would ask about Beth first. The number came after that.”
How an Italian and Mediterranean restaurant group sold to a Pikes Peak-area restaurateur with the Colorado Springs business brokers who priced the multi-generational family-recipe continuity correctly.
Colorado Springs business brokers who understand Old Colorado City’s Italian-American heritage made the first call easier. Joe is a 4th-generation Coloradan. His great-grandfather emigrated from Sicily in 1908 to work the Cripple Creek and Victor gold mines. His grandfather opened a small Italian deli in Old Colorado City in 1947. His father expanded the family into restaurant service in the 1970s. Joe joined the family business in 1992 after a Pikes Peak Community College culinary degree, took over the operation in 2008, and grew it from a single Old Colorado City location into a three-restaurant Italian and Mediterranean concept group spanning Old Colorado City, Manitou Springs, and Briargate. By the time he called us, the operation ran as a flagship Italian fine-dining restaurant on the Old Colorado City strip, a small Italian fast-casual deli in Manitou Springs serving Pikes Peak tourist traffic, and a Briargate satellite serving the affluent Northern Colorado Springs residential and business lunch market. The concept blends Sicilian family recipes from Joe’s grandmother with contemporary Italian preparation, and the flagship maintains a tight Italian wine and grappa list. Combined revenue cleared $2.4 million at a 21 percent SDE margin, defensibly clean for a three-restaurant Italian and Mediterranean concept at that scale in Colorado Springs. The mix landed at 50 percent flagship dining, 30 percent Manitou tourist-traffic deli, and 20 percent Briargate satellite. Joe’s wife is a former Cheyenne Mountain Junior High teacher. Their two adult kids are a Colorado College graduate now in Boulder and a UCCS business student. Joe and his wife were ready for them to spend extended time at the family Florence ancestral home (his great-grandfather emigrated from Sicily but the family has reconnected with Florence relatives since the 1990s), and Joe wanted the restaurants to continue under operators who would preserve the family-recipe-anchored menu.
Restaurant M&A at this tier has its own structural pattern. The valuable assets are the family-recipe-anchored brand identity, the three-location lease portfolio across the Pikes Peak tourism corridor and Briargate, the chef-leadership continuity, and the Old Colorado City and Manitou Springs community trust that underwrites a multi-generational Italian-American concept. Smaller-tier restaurant groups typically transact on a cash-and-seller-note basis rather than the cash-plus-rollover structure that dominates larger restaurant-platform deals. Joe had been approached five times in twelve months: twice by Pikes Peak-area restaurant operators looking to bolt on an Italian concept, once by a regional Colorado Springs and Denver restaurant group expanding into the Pikes Peak tourism corridor, once by a search funder running a Colorado restaurant thesis, and once by a Pikes Peak-area Italian-American restaurateur. None of those conversations had walked him through what the buyer’s review team would do with the Manitou tourist-deli seasonality, the Old Colorado City community-trust narrative, or how the chef-leadership continuity through Gianni, his lead Italian-American executive chef since 1995, would be priced inside an LOI. He called us the week his wife committed to a four-month stay in Florence the following spring.
The first call ran thirty-seven minutes. Joe walked us through the founding, the way the flagship’s Sicilian-grandmother family-recipe menu had compounded into a steady draw for Old Colorado City regulars and a destination for Pikes Peak visitors, the way Gianni had become the institutional voice on the kitchen line across all three locations, and the conversations he had been having with Gianni about whether he wanted to step up under a new owner. The valuation walkthrough showed Joe a band that priced the three-location lease portfolio and renewal-option language, the chef-leadership continuity through Gianni, the Manitou tourist-deli seasonality, the brunch and dinner-cover patterns by location, and the Old Colorado City / Manitou Springs / Briargate brand identity. The valuation also flagged what the diligence file would need: a clean trailing-eighteen-month covers-per-service waterfall by location and day-part, a Manitou-tourist-deli peak-shoulder-trough seasonality breakout, a named-staff retention agreement with Gianni, and a clean lease-assignment opinion from his real estate counsel covering all three locations. Joe spent nine weeks getting that done. The Colorado Springs business brokers at CGK took the group to market.
Smaller-tier restaurant M&A across the Pikes Peak tourism and residential corridors draws a moderate-depth pool with a strong HNW-restaurateur cohort. Roughly 115 buyers signaled interest off the blind teaser. About 62 signed NDAs. Seven LOIs landed. The pool was the structural mix the smallest-tier restaurant band tends to attract in Colorado Springs: a few HNW restaurateur-investor buyers (including a few Pikes Peak operators looking to add Italian concepts), search funders, independent sponsors, regional Colorado Springs and Denver restaurant groups, mid-market PE restaurant platforms running international-cuisine theses, and one strategic acquirer with a Pikes Peak tourism-corridor thesis. Three LOIs advanced to a final round. Joe chose the highest headline because the buyer (a HNW Pikes Peak-area restaurateur, Joe’s culinary mentor from his early Old Colorado City days, partnered with a Colorado Springs-area family office providing equity-gap financing) committed to keeping all 24 staff including the Italian-American kitchen leadership, kept all three locations operating under their existing brand names, gave Gianni the path to step up as executive chef across the group, and named Joe as creative-and-recipe advisor for 12 months. The deal closed structured as 82 percent cash at close with the remaining 18 percent as a seller note over five years at a market rate, with no escrow and no equity rollover. Wire hit on a Wednesday at 1:47 p.m. Joe called his father (now 82, in his Old Colorado City home) from the flagship kitchen in Italian-accented English. A brief Italian phrase carried it: “È fatto, papá.” It is done, dad. His father, who ran the family restaurant for 35 years, simply said “Bravo, figlio mio.” Well done, my son. Joe then walked the dining room one final time with Gianni, the two of them standing for a long moment at the kitchen pass on a slow Wednesday afternoon.
“My grandmother’s Sicilian recipes carry the menu. The buyer kept the team. That is the inheritance.”
How a Security-Widefield independent auto repair shop sold to a Rocky Mountain consolidator with the Colorado Springs business brokers who priced the Fort Carson military-family customer book correctly.
The Colorado Springs business brokers who walked Marlon through valuation understood that a Fort Carson-adjacent military-family-serving shop carries real value to the right buyer. Marlon’s family came to Colorado Springs in 1990 following an Air Force assignment for his father, a Filipino-American Air Force chief master sergeant who finished his career at Peterson AFB. Marlon enlisted Navy and served eight years as an aviation electrician, separated as Petty Officer Second Class in 2003, retrained as an automotive technician through the Pikes Peak Community College program, worked for a Fort Carson-area dealership service center for six years, and opened his independent shop in the Security-Widefield corridor near Fort Carson in 2011. By the time he called us, the operation ran as a 4-bay independent auto repair plus light fleet service shop, $1.4 million in revenue at a 27 percent SDE margin, and a 7-person staff of Marlon plus four ASE-certified technicians plus two dispatch and admin. Marlon is a longtime ASE Master Tech; the shop carries I-CAR Gold for collision and an ASE Blue Seal of Excellence. Mix landed at 55 percent general repair and maintenance (primarily Fort Carson-affiliated military families plus the surrounding Security-Widefield residential customer base), 15 percent Fort Carson-related fleet service for nearby small businesses, 15 percent brake and transmission specialty, and 10 percent tire and battery retail. The shop carries a strong reputation among the Fort Carson Filipino-American military spouse community. Marlon’s father in the Philippines had recently had a stroke, and Marlon wanted to bring him to Colorado Springs for care, which required significant time and home preparation that he could not manage while running the day-to-day shop. His wife is a Penrose-St. Francis ICU nurse. Marlon wanted to phase down to part-time consulting while staying close to the Security-Widefield community.
Home-services and auto-services rollup is in steady-PE-consolidation mode along the Rocky Mountain corridor, and the structural pattern at Marlon’s tier reflects it. The valuable assets are the multi-year Fort Carson-affiliated customer book, the ASE-certified technician bench, the Security-Widefield service-territory reputation, and the Filipino-American military-spouse community trust that the shop has built across the last fourteen years. Smaller-tier auto-services platforms typically transact on a cash-and-seller-note basis rather than the cash-plus-rollover structure that dominates larger trade-services platform deals. Marlon had been approached four times in fourteen months: twice by national auto-services rollup platforms running Rocky Mountain expansion theses, once by a regional Colorado auto-services consolidator with a Fort Carson corridor focus, and once by a search funder running a Pikes Peak-area auto-services thesis. None of those conversations had walked him through how the buyer’s review team would treat the Fort Carson-related fleet line, the multi-year military-family customer-tenure pattern, or how Ramil, his longtime Filipino-American lead tech who joined Marlon in 2013 after his own Air Force separation at Peterson, sat at the institutional center of the bay floor. He called us the week his wife confirmed she could shift to a daytime nursing schedule to help with his father’s care.
The first call ran thirty-one minutes. Marlon walked us through the founding, the way the Fort Carson Filipino-American military-spouse network had carried generational customer loyalty across Security-Widefield, the way Ramil had become the institutional voice on the bay floor, and the conversations he had been having with his service techs about whether they wanted to stay through a change of control. The valuation walkthrough showed Marlon a band that priced the Fort Carson-related fleet line, the multi-year military-family customer-tenure pattern, the brake-and-transmission specialty line, the I-CAR Gold collision capability, and Ramil’s continuity at the senior-tech layer. The valuation also flagged what the diligence file would need: a customer-retention waterfall by service category, a Fort Carson-fleet revenue breakout by client, a tech-by-tech revenue and tenure schedule, a named-staff retention agreement with Ramil, and a clean ASE and I-CAR certification continuity opinion. Marlon spent six weeks getting that done. The Colorado Springs business brokers at CGK took the company to market.
Auto-services M&A at the smaller Rocky Mountain trade-services tier draws a steady pool with a strong HNW operator-buyer and veteran-owned-PE cohort. Roughly 88 buyers signaled interest off the blind teaser. About 50 signed NDAs. Five LOIs landed. The pool was the structural mix the smaller-tier auto-services band tends to attract along the Fort Carson corridor: a few HNW auto-repair-investor buyers (a few owner-operators in their 30s and 40s looking for a Fort Carson-area turnkey shop), search funders, independent sponsors, regional Colorado auto-services consolidators, mid-market PE auto-repair rollup platforms, and one strategic acquirer with a Colorado-and-Mountain-West thesis. Active interest came in from veteran-owned PE funds with a “military-family-serving small-business” acquisition mandate. All five LOIs advanced to a final round at Marlon’s tier. Marlon chose the highest headline because the buyer (a PE-backed national auto repair consolidator with a Rocky Mountain regional brand, 55-plus shops in their existing portfolio across CO, WY, UT, NM, and NE, sponsored by a Denver-area lower-middle-market PE fund with an auto-services rollup thesis and a stated commitment to veteran-owned shop growth) committed to keeping the shop open under existing branding, kept all 7 staff with compensation continuity, kept Ramil in his lead-tech seat at his existing comp tier, and named Marlon as senior shop-development advisor for 18 months at half-time. The deal closed structured as 78 percent cash at close with the remaining 22 percent as a seller note over three years at a market rate, with no escrow and no equity rollover. Wire hit on a Thursday at 12:09 p.m. Marlon called his wife (the Penrose-St. Francis ICU nurse) from the Security-Widefield shop in plain English. “It is done. We can bring tatay home now.” Then he called his father in the Philippines in Tagalog, briefly: “Tapos na, tatay.” It is done, dad. The time difference meant his father was asleep, so he left a voicemail. Marlon then walked across the shop floor to Ramil’s bay, his longtime Filipino-American lead service tech, and thanked him in person.
“My father served twenty-eight years in the Air Force. Now he comes home. The buyer kept Ramil in his seat. That is the inheritance.”
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The buyer pool the Colorado Springs business brokers at CGK actually run process for.
Buyer-pool depth separates a structured M&A process from a one-off conversation. The Pikes Peak buyer pool is structurally deep across most of the industries we close, anchored by Colorado Springs’s intersection of the USSF Peterson Space Force Base, Schriever, US Air Force Academy, NORAD, and Fort Carson defense corridor, the UCHealth Memorial and Penrose-St. Francis and Children’s Colorado-Springs healthcare cluster, the long-running Pikes Peak tourism economy, and the Briargate and Northgate private-capital base.
PE-backed government services platforms with Rocky Mountain and Sun Belt theses. Mid-market and lower-middle-market PE platforms with Rocky Mountain, Sun Belt, Mountain West, and Southwest government-services theses run continuous outreach into the deals our Colorado Springs business brokers carry: cleared-workforce ISR contractors, USSF Peterson and Schriever adjacent platforms, US Air Force Academy support shops, and Fort Carson combatant command service businesses. The Colorado Springs PE bench treats Rocky-Mountain and Sun Belt government services as a preferred entry vertical because the cleared workforce along the Pikes Peak corridor is structurally deep and the USSF and DoD customer concentration is structurally durable across recompete cycles.
Colorado Springs and Front Range family offices with USSF, Peterson, and Fort Carson exposure. The Briargate and Northgate family-office bench, the Broadmoor and Cheyenne Mountain affluent-family layer, the Colorado-and-Mountain-West family offices that compounded through the 2000s and 2010s, and a growing Pikes Peak family-office cohort that emerged through the 2010s and 2020s run continuous outreach into Pikes Peak region healthcare specialty practices, ancillary services, defense-services platforms, hospitality groups, and Pikes Peak niche businesses in the lower-middle-market band where they can hold for decades. The Colorado Springs family-office cohort frequently pays the highest premium when the long-hold thesis aligns and the operating-talent continuity is intact.
Veteran-owned PE funds with mil-adjacent acquisition mandates. Veteran-owned PE funds with stated acquisition mandates around military-family-serving small businesses, cleared-workforce platforms, and veteran-owned-business growth run continuous outreach into Colorado Springs industries where the Pikes Peak military-veteran community pulls structural demand: Fort Carson-adjacent auto repair, Peterson-and-Schriever-adjacent IT services, US Air Force Academy-area trade services, and broader cleared-workforce defense services. These funds tend to compete aggressively on retention philosophy and operator continuity, not just headline multiple.
Healthcare PE platforms with Colorado focus. The Pikes Peak healthcare PE rollup wave compounds quarter over quarter. Cardiology consolidators, primary-care platforms, dermatology consolidators, and behavioral-health platforms all carry continuous outreach into Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Monument, and Castle Rock healthcare specialty practices. UCHealth Memorial, Penrose-St. Francis, and Children’s Colorado-Springs privilege continuity shapes the LOI floor that Colorado Springs business brokers can defend on Pikes Peak region specialty practices.
Pikes Peak tourism-corridor strategic acquirers. Strategic acquirers operating along the Pikes Peak tourism corridor (Manitou Springs, Old Colorado City, Garden of the Gods, the Broadmoor) target Colorado Springs hospitality, restaurant, lodging, and outdoor-recreation platforms with Pikes Peak peak-shoulder-trough seasonality exposure. Industry strategics frequently pay the highest premium when the synergy math is real and the seasonal-revenue documentation is clean, and our Colorado Springs M&A advisors stage those conversations carefully so confidential information does not leak into trade press while a process is live.
Auto-services and home-services consolidators with Rocky Mountain reach. Rocky Mountain and Mountain West regional consolidators in auto repair, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, roofing, and broader home services run continuous outreach into Security-Widefield, Fort Carson corridor, Briargate, Black Forest, and broader Pikes Peak region trade-services platforms above $300K SDE. Colorado Springs’s population-growth pattern through the 2010s and 2020s built a deep trade-services book that draws consolidator attention every quarter.
Pikes Peak region submarkets we serve.
Greater Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region are not one market. Our Colorado Springs business brokers run engagements across these twelve submarkets and the sectors that anchor each. The full CGK Principal bench coordinates on each Colorado Springs engagement, with a single named principal carrying the file start to finish.
Preparing to sell your Colorado Springs business.
A buyer’s review team will ask roughly six questions on every Pikes Peak engagement. The runway is the time to make each answer defensible. Here are the six, and what each one is worth in your final price.
A buyer’s review team will ask roughly the same six questions on every Pikes Peak engagement. The runway is the time to make each answer defensible. Owners who can answer all six clean tend to clear the prices their industry will pay. Owners who can only answer two or three get the discount that goes with whatever is left unanswered.
Question one: who runs this business if the owner is out tomorrow? Buyers underwrite owner-dependency hard, and the answer “no one” is the most expensive answer in any review. The runway fix is to put a named manager between the owner and each key customer, regulatory, payer, or referral relationship, document the handoff, and let the new relationships season for six to twelve months before going to market. Bill did this on his cleared-engineering bench. Karen did it on her clinical floor. Joe did it with his executive chef. Marlon did it with his lead service tech. The named successor at the institutional center of the operation is the single most valuable item the runway produces.
Question two: what happens if your largest customer or referral source disappears? If one customer or one referral source carries more than thirty percent of revenue, the buyer prices that cliff risk into the offer. Runway fixes the answer: diversify where possible, document renewal cadence and contract terms where diversification is not realistic, and put named accounts in place with successor relationships so the concentration is not also an owner-dependency.
Question three: do the financials match the bank statements? Buyers reconcile every line of the trailing financials against the underlying source documents. Add-backs need a defensible story. Cash-basis-versus-accrual differences need to be explained. Personal expenses run through the business need to be itemized. Inventory and depreciation conventions need to hold up. Runway is when you do that work quietly with your CPA, before it surfaces as a series of review findings under buyer pressure.
Question four: are the contracts assignable? Cleared-workforce defense contracts have assignment language that triggers on change of control. Healthcare provider contracts have payer-notification requirements. Commercial real-estate leases have landlord consent. Vendor contracts have anti-assignment clauses. Each gap turns into a price discount, an escrow holdback, or a closing-condition delay. Runway is when you and your attorney walk the contract portfolio and identify what needs renegotiation, consent, or a workaround before going to market.
Question five: what does your tax picture look like after close? A larger Colorado sale almost always carries tax-structuring optionality the seller does not see until inside the LOI cycle: stock versus asset sale, specific reorganization options for some C-corps, Colorado state-tax allocation, installment-sale considerations, charitable-remainder trust structures. Engaging the right financial advisor, trust attorney, CPA, or tax attorney twelve months before close pays for itself several times over on larger Pikes Peak deals. Owners who discover their tax-structuring options inside a tight LOI window almost always pay for it.
Question six: is the most recent year of results clean enough to defend? Buyers look at how the last twelve months of your numbers ran with weight. If revenue, margin, or contract renewals wobble in the final stretch, the buyer prices that wobble in. A USSF Peterson contract platform during a recompete, a cardiology practice during a payer renegotiation, a Manitou Springs hospitality operator who has not yet closed a full peak-shoulder-trough cycle, a Cheyenne Mountain corridor business inside a one-time disruption window. Each of these is usually better served by letting the year mature than by going to market on uncertain footing. The runway is when you and CGK decide together whether your year is going to land in shape, or whether waiting one more cycle clears the price you should be clearing.
Owners who can answer all six questions defensibly tend to clear the prices their industry trade press covers. Owners who cannot get the discount that maps to whatever they could not answer. The CGK Colorado Springs team will tell you straight which six answers you currently have and which ones still need work.
When to call Colorado Springs business brokers.
The right time to call our Colorado Springs business brokers depends on how far out your horizon sits. Four time horizons account for almost every first conversation we have, and any of them is the right reason to start.
Call us today: zero to ninety days from a decision. An unsolicited approach from a PE consolidator scout, a Mountain West rollup operator, or an industry strategic that has moved past the pleasantries. A health event for you or a partner. A partnership disagreement that has shifted the timeline. A parent’s care plan that wants you closer to home. The unsolicited offer is the most common urgent call we hear in Colorado Springs: a defense-services consolidator, a healthcare PE platform, a Pikes Peak home-services rollup, or a Mountain West industrial-services strategic has been calling, and the price they are dangling is not a friend’s number. Call us before you sign anything. Every Colorado Springs engagement keeps the unsolicited suitor in the field as one bidder among many; the original suitor usually lands in the back half of the LOI table once a real process is running.
Call us in six to twelve months: you are preparing the runway. You know you want to sell inside a year. The team is mostly built. The financials are mostly clean. The succession question has answered itself or is about to. Now is the time to start the free walkthrough conversation so the runway work has a target band and a punch list. Twelve months gives the financial cleanup and the team-build work time to season into the trailing twelve the buyer’s review will look at. Six months is enough to clean the documentation gap, formalize the retention agreements, and stage the diligence file before going to market.
Call us in eighteen to twenty-four months: you are sequencing the bigger build. Succession just resolved. The next layer of management still needs to be hired and seasoned. The customer concentration cliff still needs to be diversified. The cleared-workforce or healthcare or restaurant-portfolio retention agreements need to be put in place and let to settle. Eighteen to twenty-four months is the right window for the bigger build. The free walkthrough at the eighteen-month mark gives the runway a clear target band and a defensible sequence of work.
Call us when you just want to know. Plenty of Pikes Peak owners pick up the phone with no urgency, no resolved succession question, no unsolicited offer in hand, no firm horizon. They just want to know what their Colorado business is actually worth. The free walkthrough is open to any Pikes Peak region seller seriously thinking about a sale on any horizon, no commitment to engage afterwards. Most of the best CGK Colorado Springs engagements start with that exact conversation a year or more before the transaction.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Practical answers to what comes up most often when Pikes Peak region owners are evaluating Colorado Springs business brokers to take their company to market. Each answer below reflects how the Colorado Springs business brokers at CGK actually answer these in the first call.
We Know Colorado Springs.
Colorado Springs is Pikes Peak rising over the city on a clear October morning, the red sandstone of Garden of the Gods at golden hour, the Cog Railway climbing toward the summit, the Broadmoor with its century-old hospitality tradition under the slope of Cheyenne Mountain, the U.S. Air Force Academy chapel and the cadet review parade on a fall Saturday, the NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex tucked into the granite, Old Colorado City’s Victorian-era main street, Manitou Springs and the mineral springs that gave the town its name, Glen Eyrie Castle along Camp Creek, the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum on Tejon Street, the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo above the city, Seven Falls and Helen Hunt Falls cut into the foothills, the Olympic & Paralympic Training Center downtown, Memorial Park and the Sertich ice rink, the historic Antlers Hotel beside the rail line, the Pikes Peak Center and the Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, the Western Museum of Mining and Industry, the Iron Springs Chateau melodrama in Manitou, Adam’s Mountain Café for Sunday breakfast, Patty Jewett Golf Course (one of the oldest west of the Mississippi), the Black Forest north of the city, the Pikes Peak Marathon every August, Air Force Academy football and the Falcons under Friday-night stadium lights, the Royal Gorge a short drive south. CGK’s Colorado Springs address is 102 S Tejon St, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, but most of our work with Pikes Peak region owners happens at the seller’s business or by Zoom.
We know the UCHealth Memorial and Penrose-St. Francis and Children’s Colorado-Springs hospital cluster pulls a deeper specialty-practice and ancillary-services M&A market into Colorado Springs than the city’s population alone would suggest, and we work that buyer pool every quarter. We track the USSF Peterson and Schriever and US Air Force Academy and NORAD and Fort Carson contract calendars and the way Rocky Mountain and Sun Belt government-services consolidation ripples through Pikes Peak cleared-workforce defense contractors, and we work the Pikes Peak region deal market alongside the convening work of the Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC, the Pikes Peak Workforce Center, and the broader Southern Colorado economic-development community.
We know Colorado Springs is a green-chile breakfast burrito on a Saturday morning at a Westside diner, the Pikes Peak Marathon trailhead in August, the climb up Pikes Peak Highway in early summer, the way Cheyenne Mountain catches morning light from the city below, Old Colorado City on a Friday night, the Westside antique shops, the Manitou Incline before sunrise, the Patty Jewett fairways under a summer thunderhead, the Glen Eyrie peacocks under the red rocks, the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo at Norris-Penrose, the Broadmoor’s century-old check-in desk, the cadet review parade at the Air Force Academy, the Falcons fight song at Falcon Stadium, Memorial Park on a Sunday afternoon, the Pioneer’s Museum bell tower, the Antlers Hotel doormen, the Olympic Training Center pool, Seven Falls in early autumn, Helen Hunt Falls on a still morning, the Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, the Iron Springs Chateau on a Saturday night. We know Briargate and Northgate, Old Colorado City and Manitou Springs, the Broadmoor and Cheyenne Mountain, Security-Widefield and the Fort Carson corridor, Black Forest and Falcon, Powers and East Colorado Springs, Monument and Tri-Lakes, Woodland Park and Teller County, Pueblo and Pueblo West, Castle Rock and Southern Douglas County.
We are members of the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA) and M&A Source. We carry a CFA, a CMT, a CAIA, an FDP, an MBA, and a Master of Data Science. If you are a Pikes Peak region owner thinking about how and when to sell your business, or hunting for the right Colorado acquisition through our buy-side advisory, or want a confidential business valuation, the Colorado Springs business brokers at CGK know this city and the Pikes Peak region buyer pool. Call (719) 471-0115 or submit the form to start.
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