County, Meeker, Stories

Business owners also divided on downtown justice center

phrbcjusticecenterrenderingRBC I Downtown business owners, like others in the community, are mixed in their views about a proposed justice center.
Rio Blanco County is interested in using the site of the Meeker Elementary School, which will be vacated at the end of the school year, for a new justice center. The current county courthouse is located across the street from the school, which is why commissioners like the school site.
But some neighborhood residents don’t…