The day before yesterday, Denver's Tattered Cover Bookstore, where I worked as the bookkeeper for 4 1/2 years, announced that it was moving it's Lower Downtown location from the 16th Street Mall 3 blocks north to McGregor Square, which is currently under construction. McGregor Square, seen in the above photograph, is a mixed use development being built across from Coors Field by by Dick Monfort, owner of the Colorado Rockies. The Tattered Cover opened it's LoDo store in 1994, back when the area was still mainly a warehouse district and rents were cheap. The area is now the entertainment hub for the city, and lately commercial rents have been going through the roof. The entire neighborhood is very vibrant, and so hopefully the Tattered Cover's business won't suffer by moving away from the 16th Street Mall. I once met the landlord for the Camera Obscura Gallery, a fine-art photography gallery which was another iconic Denver business. He told me that the owner, Hal Gould, was providing a great service to the city, and he would make sure the store remained there as long as Gould wanted. Eventually, Gould decided to retire, and closed the store, passing away soon afterwards at the age of 95. I just hope that Colorado Rockies owner Dick Monfort feels the same way about the Tattered Cover.
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