336
Last to Launch
Nathan Johansen of Provo, UT
For sale $18,800
Main Street · Grand Junction, Colorado
Forty years of sculpture, standing outside the shops that keep it company.
Pick a block. You get the 14 sculptures standing on it, the 38 businesses open around them, which ones take the downtown gift card, and what is scheduled there.
What a block looks like
Sculpture and storefront in one sequence, in the order you meet them walking.
The 300s
3 sculptures · 4 businesses
359
Bulrush
Doyle Svenby of Colorado Springs, CO
- 3rd Place Best in Show
For sale $11,000
359
Desert Dancers II
Merelee Whitcomb of Littleton, CO
For sale $7,000
Every business on this block takes the downtown gift card.
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309
Bee Smooth
Personal Services Spas
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314
Dream Cafe
Food & Beverage Breakfast
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317
Bistro 317
Food & Beverage Bars & Breweries
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350
Grand Valley Books
Shopping Books
The 400s
1 sculpture · 9 businesses
425
HOPE/RAGE
Joe Norman of Loveland, CO
For sale $27,500
Every business on this block takes the downtown gift card.
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400
BIN 707 Foodbar
Food & Beverage Cocktails
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412
Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra
Entertainment Activities
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420
Cafe Sol
Food & Beverage Breakfast
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425
Brown’s Shoe Fit Company
Shopping Clothing, Shoes & Accessories
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435
Ability Advocates – Gifts & Abilities
Shopping Gifts
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443
ColoradoCool Apparel
Shopping Clothing, Shoes & Accessories
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449
Gelato Junction & The Bakers Boutique with Colorado Q
Food & Beverage Breakfast
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455
Canvascape
Shopping Gifts
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461
Gearhead Outfitters
Shopping Clothing, Shoes & Accessories
Why there is sculpture on a shopping street
Exxon closed its Western Slope operations, and by the Creative District’s own account that left “Grand Junction a virtual ghost town.” The answer downtown chose was not a retail incentive. Dave Davis, an artist and Director of The Art Center of Western Colorado, assembled ten area sculptors, and on August 5, 1984 Main Street carried its first exhibit of 24 sculptures.
Grand Junction was one of the first cities in the nation to put an outdoor sculpture exhibition on its commercial street. The collection still turns over every year, it still stands outside in the weather, and it is still catalogued by the street number it stands on, which is why this site is built the way it is.
The rest of downtown
- Downtown Gift Card
- Buy one, or see which shops take it. Acceptance shows up on the walk itself, so you never have to cross-check a second list.
- Events
- First Friday Art Walks, Rides & Vibes, and the rest of the calendar, each one shown at the block it happens on.
- Business Hub
- Open downtown, join the district, apply for a grant, or get your listing corrected.
- Board Records
- DDA and BID agendas, minutes, meeting schedules, and grant guidelines: full text, searchable from the same box as everything else.