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Jacob Thaden and Cole Hanson have owned outdoor clothing and equipment store Gear Junction for more than five years now.

So how do you make the rest of downtown look like Main Street? That’s a question that groups like the Downtown Development Authority have had on their minds for years and now seem poised to tackle. Worries of economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic have subsided, revealing a healthy city budget, federal relief funds filling both resident’s pockets and government coffers and, importantly for Downtown Grand Junction, new businesses taking root just off Main Street. Amid the confluence of events, it seems the DDA could be closer to finding their answer than ever before. “I thi...

So how do you make the rest of downtown look like Main Street? That’s a question that groups like the Downtown Development Authority have had on their minds for years and now seem poised to tackle. Worries of economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic have subsided, revealing a healthy city budget, federal relief funds filling both resident’s pockets and government coffers and, importantly for Downtown Grand Junction, new businesses taking root just off Main Street. Amid the confluence of events, it seems the DDA could be closer to finding their answer than ever before. “I thi...