Business

Breckenridge Brewery's in-state expansion stymied by legislature

Baker's Breckenridge Brewery will feel the immediate effect of a legislative maneuver, and won't be able to build a new brewery within Colorado; as the Denver Business Journal reports, the state legislature has quashed a bill that would have allowed brewpubs to brew more than 60,000 barrels per year

openings on Broadway - Happy Coffee, Gary Lee's, Adrift

three new businesses have opened on Broadway since the end of April; all had lingered past their optimistic original opening dates, but the lingering prize goes to appropriately-named Adrift, which obtained its liquor license in 2006 and then sat empty for years with a petulant note in the window, “if banks would loan …”:

55 Broadway - Fancy Tiger Clothing

Location

55 Broadway
Denver, CO 80204
United States
39° 43' 3.4932" N, 104° 59' 16.7496" W

this location houses Fancy Tiger Clothing, handmade and locally crafted clothing, bags, jewelry and more; Fancy Tiger also has a crafts store next door at 59 Broadway

history:

this location, along with 59 Broadway & 55 Broadway, housed a purveyor of designer plumbing fixtures which closed in the early 2000s, after which it sat empty until 2012

59 Broadway - Fancy Tiger Crafts

Location

59 Broadway
denver, CO 80204
United States
39° 43' 3.9216" N, 104° 59' 14.9928" W

Fancy Tiger Crafts - fabric, yarn and other supplies for crafts; often visited by horndribbles (Flash site); Fancy Tiger also has a clothing store next door, 55 Broadway

history:

this location, along with 59 Broadway & 55 Broadway, housed a purveyor of designer plumbing fixtures which closed in the early 2000s, after which it sat empty until 2012

94 S. Broadway - White Palace Laundrymat

Location

94 S. Broadway
Denver, CO 80209
United States
39° 42' 53.4312" N, 104° 59' 15.1116" W

location of White Palace Laundrymat (so-named because it's within a classy white-tiled building)

ampersands on Broadway #5: reverence for the the Old West inside Fancy Tiger Crafts

Fancy Tiger Crafts’ spacious new home at 59 Broadway opened with the new year, and has been decorated inside with retro signage recalling the simplicity & self-reliance of the Old West, including these two classic ampersands; other decor in the new space includes vintage sewing machines, an old windmill, and of course the immensely varied stock of colorful fabrics, yarns, and myriad other craft supplies

(fifth in a series — signage on Broadway may last for decades or a few minutes; focusing on the typographic form of ampersands is both a simple delight and a way to illustrate Baker’s diversity)

59 Broadway - Fancy Tiger Crafts

Location

59 Broadway St.
Denver, CO
United States
39° 43' 3.9216" N, 104° 59' 14.9928" W

northernmost of three storefronts in a building that had sat empty for several years; home of Fancy Tiger Crafts as of 1 Jan. 2012

ampersands on Broadway #4: Club 404 is no more

Club 404 closed this week for a change in ownership, and presumably a change in style; no word yet whether it will retain its classic 3-dimensional sheet metal sign, with many empty light sockets suggesting a brighter past, but the ampersand here, in a halo of paste and a field of faded red, harks from an era when things lasted longer

(fourth in a series — signage on Broadway may last for decades or a few minutes; focusing on the typographic form of ampersands is both a simple delight and a way to illustrate Baker’s diversity)

404 Broadway - Denver Wheel Club 404

Location

404 Broadway
Denver, CO
United States
39° 43' 21.612" N, 104° 59' 14.9352" W

this location houses Denver Wheel Club 404, which is under new ownership though it retains the classic Club 404 signage; the bar now has a bicycle theme; its name refers to Denver's Wheel Club of the 1890s; hordes of mufflerless scooters have also been seen there

history:

home of venerable Club 404, owned by Jerry Feld from 1951 until December 2011

4-letter shops in the works

businesses with four-letter names are popping up on Broadway; one in a space formerly occupied by a business with a four-letter name; also some related news for businesses with longer names …

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