Grand Junction Downtown
Recently, Grand Junction, Colorado has been spending a lot of time and money rebuilding its external downtown streets, and generally doing an excellent job. Basically, they are continuing the successful reworking of Main Street that was completed in the early 1960’s and was nationally acclaimed. This is also one of the first downtown streetscapes that I have seen that constructed a round-a-bout in an existing downtown intersection, and done very successfully.
Also included with this reconstruction was a lot of attention paid to the pedestrian environment. Sidewalks were widened, outdoor dining areas created, pedestrian scale lighting, and enhanced crosswalks. Low brick walls have also been incorporated to provide additional seating, and to separate pedestrians from street traffic.
The particular project these photos are from is 7th Street. This involved a reconstruction of approximately six blocks of a four lane street. Since then, they have also reconstructed five blocks of Colorado Avenue in a similar fashion.
On both of these, the City of Grand Junction has done a fabulous job, and this will serve as a model for other cities to look to as they rebuild their downtown streets. Downtown Grand Junction also has a lot of land that is begging to be redeveloped. If you know of anyone who would be interested in a long term investment, let me know!
December 3rd, 2015 at 9:59 am
Looking back at the core reasons and medhots, the expropriation of properties and spending millions of tax dollars, to revive downtown Winnipeg in order to gain back lost tax revenues. In return we still have an area that is less desirable to do business in than the suburbs and it has an increasing crime rate. Can’t wait to see what brillant idea our city leaders will come up with next to fix this problem but rest assured it will result in continued tax increases with a minimal if any bang for our buck. .