Due to my part time job in the evenings at a local drugstore chain, I have not had much opportunity to take the bus to my job as the Bookkeeper at a local Denver bookstore and then walk down Colfax to the light rail station downtown. However, as far as I can tell from occasionally driving down the avenue, it continues to gentrify. There are still some iconic businesses that remain, of course, such as Pete's Kitchen (seen in the photograph above and in business since 1942), and the Satire Lounge (just down the street), famous for it's flashy neon sign. In fact, preservationists want to declare the neon signs on Colfax Avenue an historic sight in order to preserve them. A crazy idea or a smart one? Both, probably.
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