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Nonprofit coalition seeks $299,000 from Grand Junction for Confluence Center at Dos Rios

Grand Junction City Council (workshop) · December 2, 2024
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Rivers Edge West and five partner nonprofits outlined a $7.8 million Confluence Center project at Dos Rios and asked the city for $299,000, saying $4.3 million is already raised and several grants and tax‑credit strategies are pending.

Rusty Lloyd, executive director of Rivers Edge West, told the City Council the Confluence Center of Colorado is a planned nonprofit‑owned facility at the Dos Rios development that would house six nonprofits and a preschool and serve as a regional hub for water, land and environmental education. “The project essentially is is going to cost about $7,800,000,” Lloyd said, and added that the group has raised about $4.3 million so far and is pursuing New Markets Tax Credits, congressional directed spending, an EPA capital grant and a state…

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