Let’s not make too much of the unfortunate developments that threaten to derail a coveted business’s once-enthusiastic plan to relocate along the riverfront.

The city of Grand Junction appears to be doing everything in its power to atone for selling Sunshine Polishing Technology a blemished parcel of the old Jarvis property south of the Riverside neighborhood and bordering the Colorado River.

The area had been a landfill in the 1950s and ’60s and once held thousands of junk cars before it was purchased by the city and remediated in the 1990s. Unfortunately, no one knew that vestiges of trash remained underground until Sunshine set about excavating the two-acre Lot 5 in May with plans to erect a 5,000- to 6,000-square-foot building to serve as the company’s headquarters.

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