It has been a while since I was last in the LoDo (Lower Downtown) neighborhood of Denver, and so Saturday afternoon after buying a ticket to this Sunday's Colorado Rockies game, I decided to take a walk around the area. I was surprised to see an entire city block has been excavated and will soon accommodate Market Station, an office and retail project. I also walked past the Dairy Block, which a long time ago was owned by none other than Arnold Schwarzenegger, and which has now been developed into the "Z" block. I took a look at the storefronts, as seen in the photograph on the left, and found that every single one will be a restaurant and/or bar.
And thank goodness for that. If there is anything LoDo needs more of, it is restaurants and bars. With all the new, very pricey apartment buildings being built around here, there are more and more hipsters out on the street, looking for the latest, greatest, hippest new bar to party at. People were beginning to worry that the ratio of bars to hipsters was becoming dangerously low. No worries - problem solved. My only recommendation is that you avoid the area like the plague when all these bars close at the same time (2:00 A.M)., especially on Friday and Saturday nights. There have been a lot of incidents involving well lubricated partiers exercising their second amendment rights. Dangerous, but exciting!
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