The long-standing site of a former sugar beet production facility and warehouse in downtown Grand Junction will soon see the construction of a new apartment complex.
Five separate buildings housing a total of 164 residential units will go up on Riverside Parkway, across the way from Las Colonias Park.
The site in question was once home to the Colorado Sugar Manufacturing Company, which opened the state’s first beet-processing facility there in 1899.
At the cusp of the Great Depression in 1929, operations were ceased at the site, with the structures subsequently used as a uranium mill and finally a warehouse.
Now a development firm based in Aspen has received City of Grand Junction approval to put up apartment buildings at the site, as well as storage units, as part of a project that is expected to be built in phases.
The Grand Junction-based Kaart Planning & Landscape Architecture has been brought in as project designer.
Aspen’s Sweeney Real Estate & Development has also recently completed the three-story Struthers Residences, located at 805 Structures Avenue in Grand Junction, a complex with just under 50 units.
Construction on the Riverside Parkway complex is expected to begin sometime next year.
By Garry Boulard
