I was driving through Lower Downtown (LoDo) here in Denver this past Saturday around 4:30 in the afternoon and was surprised to see groups of 20-Somethings already on the streets in full party mode. For some reason, I kind of assumed that LoDo was suffering the same kind of decline that the rest of downtown Denver was experiencing due to high office vacancy rates and the renovation of the 16th Street Mall, but evidently not. What really caught my attention were all the "Pedal Hoppers" on the streets. I must have passed at least 6 of them driving around the area, filled with young people pedaling from bar to bar, one of which can be seen in the photograph above. It reminds me that Denver is still popular with the younger crowd, even if the city is not nearly as attractive a place to move to as it used to be, due to the high cost of housing. The ones already here and living in Lower Downtown, River North (RINO), and the Lower Highlands (LoHi), the city's hipster hangouts, all probably have to have 10 or so roommates to afford it, but that is the price they have to pay. No wonder those Pedal Hoppers are so popular. Anything to get out of the house.
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