AUGUST 27 - SEPTEMBER 3, 2025
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VOLUME 32, ISSUE 33
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Council votes to return 4th, 5th Streets to former design Brandon Leuallen The Business Times
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ork is set to begin next Tuesday, Sept. 2, to remove the bollards and other barriers that were installed along Fourth and Fifth Streets south of Grand Avenue as part of the controversial “complete streets” pilot project. The Grand Junction City Council adopted a resolution at its Aug. 20 meeting to revert the two streets in the downtown core to their original configuration, ending the pilot program. Voting in favor were Council members Ben Van Dyke, Robert Ballard, Mayor Pro Tem Laurel Cole and Mayor Cody Kennedy. Voting against were Council members Anna Stout, Scott Beilfuss and Jason Nguyen. The pilot started in the Downtown Development Authority. A resolution (No. 36-22) to adopt the 4th and 5th Street Feasibility Study from 2022 says that in late 2020 the DDA hired the consulting engineering firm Bohannon Huston of Englewood to conduct a feasibility study on the conversion of 4th and 5th Streets from one-way to two-way traffic in coordination with city staff. See story on Page 5
Fieldhouse of Dreams
GJ Blackout grew from 1 girls basketball team 14 years ago to a club with an $8 million sports complex. — See story, Page 2
GJ Blackout Board President Dean Havlik stands near the GJ Blackout logo and a volleyball net at midcourt of one the four basketball (or six volleyball) courts in the nearly 40,000-square-foot Blackout Sports Fieldhouse, 715 23 1/2 Road in Grand Junction, near Community Hospital’s G Road campus. The fieldhouse opened for use this past weekend, and the grand opening is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 13. Photo by Tim Harty.
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