Las Colonias Business Park is a visual fiasco
When I read the story about RockyMounts moving its distribution operation to Salt Lake City, I really wasnât surprised that this day would eventually come.
Once I saw the type of building this company built along the riverfront, I was ashamed and fairly disgusted. Grand Junctionâs chance at a feather in their cap with the Las Colonias Business Park has all but faded. It was pretty easy to determine the longevity that this business has by the lack of design (and vision). There is no permanence shown with this structure.
By RICK WAGNER
What a tangled web we see woven in last weekâs Daily Sentinel â in what appears to be some combustible combination of alleged misrepresentations, justifiable reliance, and methods of business recruitment involving the business RockyMounts, the Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce and, by implication, the Las Colonias Development Corp. and the city of Grand Junction.
It would seem that after the construction of the RockyMounts building, the company learned that transportation of parts needed for assembly of the businessâs product from Salt Lake City was economically unfeasible by trucking services and delivery of shipping containers to the business by rail was not available. The owner of the company, according to the article, â⦠said he had been told that they could bring in containers on rail to Grand Junction but when he moved here, he found out that was impossible.â It was not clear to whom he was referring regarding that representation.