City Market (second location), Grand Junction, Colorado 1939 4th Street and Rood Avenue Grand Junction Mesa Colorado 81501 USA According to Clarence Prinster, the second City Market was established around 1939, when the Prinster brothers decided that the constant upkeep and repair of their first store, located in a building they rented at 400 Main Street, made owning their own building make sense. The Prinsters spent time looking at the design of King Soopers stores and those of other franchises before settling on a design. Total cost of the stores construction was $180,000. At the time, Leo Prinster thought that the brothers would never make the money back, but they eventually did. According to Prinster, the store had the first parking lot in Grand Junction and the lot was often full. Leo Prinster insisted that the store have a full basement, which they used to sell wholesale goods. The store’s main competition was a Safeway located across the street. Although the store was large and modern, changes in traffic patterns downtown made it difficult for customers to use the parking lot, and precipitated the construction of a store at 4th Street and Grand Avenue. The Rood location eventually closed. When the business was sold in 1969, the Prinster family kept ownership of the building and leased it to Dillon & Co, the new proprietors. yes yes