Basalt businessowners, residents, and visitors lived with the disruption of Midland Avenue Streetscape Project all summer, waiting for the eventual payoff and enjoying the revitalized Basalt River Park in the meantime. But two people recently.
An article in Thursday’s issue (“Impasse on Basalt’s Midland Avenue”) inaccurately stated the targeted completion period for the Midland Avenue Streetscape Project.
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When the new, larger City Market in Carbondale opened in late August, there was speculation it would eat into Basalt’s sales tax revenues, but early returns indicate grocery stores in both towns continue to flourish.
For the four full months since the Carbondale’s 62,000-square-foot City Market opened, Basalt has experienced growing rather than stagnating retail food sales. Cumulative sales tax collections from retail food sales for those four months were $890,544 up $44,194, or 5%, from the same period in 2019.
Sales tax reports don’t identify taxes paid by individual businesses, so information isn’t available on sales by the El Jebel City Market or Whole Foods.