Business View Magazine | August 2019

211 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE AUGUST 2019 I SLAND GROVE PARK experience with over 35 historical buildings, costumed interpreters, heritage farm animals, and eight acres of beautifully landscaped grounds. Island Grove hosts over 3,000 bookings a year, providing affordable space for community, regional, and national events. It is also the domicile of three major groups, who hold their annual events at the park. “We are the home base for the Greeley Stampede, the largest 4th of July celebration in the region,” says Welch. “They’ll have 230,000 people come through here during their event; the Colorado Farm Show, the largest agricultural show of its kind west of the Mississippi, is a three-day event that brings in 30,000 people into the region - and they’ve done that for 30 or 40 years; and we have the Greeley Kennel Club, which has used this park since they’ve existed.” “We probably have 40-50 annual events, some of them small, and we end up doing a lot of private events, too,” Welch adds. “We do quinceañeras (a celebration of a girl’s 15th birthday), we do weddings, we do graduation parties, birthday