Age: 39
Title: Chief development officer
Organization: Urban Villages
Alma mater: University of Colorado Boulder
Hometown: Aspen
Home: Boulder
Favorite neighborhood: LoDo
Favorite spot: Union Station
Secret talent: Writing — I’m the author of a fiction novel
Not-so-secret talent: Skiing
How talents are used in career: Formulating and sharing ideas through writing is critical in business.
While independent restaurants are struggling, with little hope of relief from Washington, D.C. (which hasn’t gotten any closer to signing a new pandemic relief bill), big restaurant chains are on the move in the south suburbs.
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Creative entrepreneurs are bringing new life and more drinking and dining spots to the historic downtown block.
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Changes are afoot at Larimer Square, bringing a boost of youthful energy to the destination dining zone known more for its upscale eateries and white tablecloths than for hip pop-ups, mashups and collaborations.
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On main streets from Littleton to Louisville and Golden to Arvada, city blocks are closing to thru-traffic.
Tables are set, candles are lit and restaurant owners are closely watching the weather, praying that Colorado’s summer will save them — at least for another few months — from financial disaster.
“I’m going to leave it all on the table,” said Kendra Anderson, who runs Bar Helix, a cocktail lounge on Larimer Street that has moved entirely outdoors for the season.
“We’ve gone all in on this,” wrote owners Cindhura Reddy and Elliot Strathmann on their restaurant Spuntino’s social media pages. “We’ve bet the farm. We are so hopeful.”
In the Highland neighborhood, Spuntino’s owners erected a tent over the restaurant’s parking lot, complete with hanging lanterns and greenery. Their new summer version is called “All’ Aperto,” or open-air in Italian.
Anderson’s RiNo bar, meanwhile, has switched to an alter-ego called Cabana X, which feels like an umbrella-shaded beach vacation via drinks and dinner.
Owner Manchester Capital Management and developer Urban Villages are about one year into renovating the first of three historic buildings at RailSpur, the adaptive mixed-use project in Pioneer Square.
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Denver Mayor Michael Hancock has chosen 12 Denver projects to receive a 2019 Mayor’s Design Award.
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Tall grasses glow in the afternoon sunlight. The last bees and butterflies of the season hover over goldenrod and asters. Silver orbs that look like alien spacecrafts shimmer nearby.
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At its heart, the problem is simply supply and demand: The cost of housing won’t go down until there is more housing.
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A Denver firm that’s leading the redevelopment of Larimer Square has hired one of the world’s most influential architects for a new hotel project near Civic Center Park.
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