City joins other Colorado towns with no grocery store in downtown
Grand Junction’s downtown City Market had been in business since 1990. Company officials announced its closure in December, just about a month before the doors shut for good.
Though City Market is now gone from downtown, Grand Junction and Mesa County still have a handful of other City Markets. All of the downtown location’s former employees accepted positions at other nearby locations.
Downtown Grand Junction has a lot going for it: cool restaurants, independent bookstores, a rotating cast of public art pieces. But as of earlier this week, what it doesn’t have is a supermarket.
That’s a small hit for Western Colorado’s largest city. Groceries still circle the edges of town – it’s the urban core that is left without.
Just days before the City Market on 1st Avenue closed, it was clear the end was near. Many shelves were completely bare. Some had just a few candy bars or maybe one lonely bottle of fancy shampoo. In the freezer section, an elderly man was filling his cart with dozens of deeply discounted TV dinners.
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