The Eye: Crown Taxi submits filing for cab service Taxi!

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Just after Fort Collins Taxi got the meter running on taxi competition in the Choice City, The Eye has learned that another would-be taxi service may enter the fray. But whether Crown Taxi will be or won’t be remains to be seen.

Crown Services Inc., headed by Patrick Santistevan, has applied to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission to begin taxi service in Fort Collins. The filing on Feb. 26 cites an anticipated service area of Fort Collins, “extending north to Wellington, east to Timnath and south to the Fort Collins-Loveland Airport.”

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Crown would operate with three to four mid- to full-size used cars upon PUC licensing approval, the application states.

But Santistevan, who declined to discuss his background with The Eye, isn’t sure Crown will ever hit the streets, but he does drive one point home.

“I don’t have all my ducks in order yet. So I’m not sure it’s going to fly yet,” he said.

Then he added: “Just because you put in an application doesn’t mean that anything’s going to happen. I wish I was further along that I knew for sure that it was going to happen.”

Fort Collins’ other taxi service, Shamrock Taxi, opposes additional cab companies in the city, because, company officials say, it would result in “destructive competition.”

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The Eye sees a lot from the Teamsters relating to the union’s contract dispute with Anheuser-Busch Inc. Almost daily faxes from Teamsters headquarters in Washington, D.C., emphasize that A-B is trying to destroy good jobs, that the company’s billion dollars in profits from 1996 to 1997 should preclude some of the requested contract changes, etc.

But The Eye can count on one hand the number of releases that have come its way from the St. Louis-based brewery. If corporate/union disputes are largely a battle for public opinion — and they are — A-B seems to be off the battlefield.

The Eye has this word of advice for the folks at A-B, which employs more than 700 workers in Fort Collins: Get the word out. The union certainly is.

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The Eye’s spies tell it that Applied Computer Technology has delayed filing its required 10k annual report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Fort Collins-based computer company, which has won several lucrative government and educational contracts recently, indicates that its latest revenue numbers won’t be all that positive, possibly showing a loss of $5 million for 1997. ACT’s stock, which had been in the $8 range last year, now has dropped below $1.

The Eye will be watching when the filing is made.