- Renovation of the building at 119 N. Seventh St. in Grand Junction has begun. The building was the former home of Junct’n Square Pizza and is now leased by Matt Chasseur and Ashley Fees Chasseur, who own fine-dining restaurant Peche in Palisade.
Xtract Environmental Services was doing work inside the building a week ago.
A liquor licensing notification for Tiki Bird LLC is posted on the building’s front window, and a planning document filed with the city describes the work with: “Remodel for Tiki Bird Restaurant. Complete overhaul of electrical, mechanical and plumbing infrastructure, including make-up air and exhaust hood system, installing a grease interceptor, and adding two new doors to the South side of the building.”
- The Grand Junction Fire Department classified the cause of the December fire that damaged Junct’n Square Pizza’s food truck as “undetermined,” and the investigation is closed, because there was too much damage to the trailer.
GJFD Public Information Officer Dirk Clingman said firefighters, who responded to the fire at approximately 2:38 a.m. on Dec. 19, had to tear apart some of the trailer, because “the makeup of the trailer along with the insulation made it very hard to extinguish the fire.” The food truck had been parked in a lot at the northwest corner of Ute Avenue and 12th Street.