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So how do you make the rest of downtown look like Main Street? That’s a question that groups like the Downtown Development Authority have had on their minds for years and now seem poised to tackle. Worries of economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic have subsided, revealing a healthy city budget, federal relief funds filling both resident’s pockets and government coffers and, importantly for Downtown Grand Junction, new businesses taking root just off Main Street. Amid the confluence of events, it seems the DDA could be closer to finding their answer than ever before. “I think there’s a lot of money out of the federal, state and city budget. I don’t think anyone knows the full extent of where those dollars at the federal and state level will go, either,” said Brandon Stam, executive director of the DDA. “I think there’s opportunity for projects that may have been too big to bite off. This might be a rare opportunity to have funding for s

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