LoHi Is Hot - Perhaps Too Hot...

My office mate Peter was talking to one of  the Bookstore's computer team members, and the discussion turned to the subject of her neighborhood.  She has owned a house for many years in what is now called "LoHi," known in English as The Lower Highlands.  Since a new place called Avanti Food and Beverage, "A Collective Eatery" opened up at 3200 Pecos Street, the area is even more crowded than ever. Once one of the oldest neighborhoods in Denver, it is now the hippest.  New high rise apartments are going up everywhere, not to mention all kinds of new bars and eateries along 32nd Street.  When our fellow co-worker was growing up, it was an ordinary middle class neighborhood, and later became one of Denver's poorer neighborhoods, with a crack house on every block. Now it is party central, and often the partying hoards park in her driveway, sit on the grass in front of her house to watch fireworks at nearby Coors Field, and generally make a nuisance of themselves.  Plus, her taxes have gone up five-fold in recent years, which would probably have driven me over the edge right there.  She now wishes for the good old days of crack houses on every block and taxes that were low low low.  Being the hipster I am, I drove over there last night, parked in her driveway (there is no other parking around there), and  had a look at Avanti.  It was nice, I guess, although most of the patrons were about 40 years younger than me.  The rooftop deck has a great view of downtown, there is food court, several hip looking common areas, and both a downstairs and rooftop bar (where most of the action was).  However, a pint of beer was $7.50.  I don't think I've ever paid $7.50 for a beer before - at least not voluntarily.  The price of being a hipster, I guess.