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CMU proposes new football facility to replace Lincoln Park Barn Brandon Leuallen
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olorado Mesa University used a Sept. 15 Grand Junction City Council workshop to have a conversation about replacing the aging Lincoln Park Barn at Stocker Stadium, which serves as the CMU football team’s locker room on game days. For years, CMU football has used Lincoln Park Barn as a locker room, while visiting teams are placed in the north-side locker rooms. The split is intentional, CMU President John Marshall said, to keep teams separated and avoid conflicts. But the barn is outdated and was never designed as a football facility, which is one of the main reasons CMU wants to build a new building at the stadium. Marshall said the presentation was an opening discussion, not a finished proposal. He said the project would follow the model of past Lincoln Park partnerships, such as the golf facility, and would be funded by CMU and alumni donors rather than city taxpayers. “This would be a CMU-funded project,” Marshall said. “We’ve set aside cash, and with this being the 100th anniversary of Maverick football, we see a chance to fundraise from alumni and supporters to make this a reality.” See story Page 5
Get in the zone! Approximately 1,800 Mesa County businesses are losing enterprise-zone status Jan. 1, but they can apply to get grandfathered in — See Page 2
Kristin Rau, the Mesa County Enterprise Zone administrator, holds up a large map of the proposed Mesa County Enterprise Zone that stands to be approved by Colorado’s Office of Economic Development and International Trade and the Economic Development Committee on or before Oct. 16. The new map then goes into effect Jan. 1, 2026. “It’s 99 percent cleared,” Rau said. “They had a meeting last week, and all the preliminaries were approved. But October 16th will be the definitive date of the new Enterprise Zone designation.” The simple explanation of the map is the blue areas are in the enterprise zone and eligible for a variety of tax credits, and the white areas are not in the enterprise zone. Photo by Tim Harty.
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