Oskar Blues to open food, music venue in Lower Downtown Denver
LONGMONT — Oskar Blues Fooderies, the food-service arm of Longmont-based Oskar Blues Brewery, announced Tuesday that it is planning a joint restaurant and music venue in lower downtown Denver.
The business is slated to open in summer 2017 in the Market Center building at 1624 Market St., just off the 16th Street Mall and across from the Regional Transportation District’s former Market Street Station, where the regional bus routes from Longmont and Boulder terminated before they were moved to Union Station.
Oskar Blues’ new Market Center concept will occupy 11,000 square feet on two levels, according to an Oskar Blues media release. The restaurant space, located on the street level, will feature the southern-inspired menu familiar to diners at Oskar Blues locations in Longmont and Lyons, as well as 43 beers on draft, including products from Oskar Blues and other craft brewers from around the country.
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Oskar Blues spokesman Chad Melis said the restaurant will open in a space formerly occupied by a Pat’s Philly Cheesesteak location.
“The Black Buzzard” music venue and smokehouse will occupy 5,500 square feet in the bottom half of the venue and is to offer draft and canned beers, as well as local and national touring acts performing nightly.
“Denver has been on our radar for years, and we are excited to find a space to call home,” said Oskar Blues Fooderies chef and partner Jason Rogers, “not to mention revitalizing the Blues and Live music in a historic spot.”
Oskar Blues also plans to open a CHUBurger fast-casual restaurant and a Hotbox Roasters coffee and doughnut shop this fall at 35th and Larimer streets in the RiNo arts district.
The 121,000-square-foot brick and beam Market Center was built between 1872 and 1902, and was purchased last year by Seattle-based Urban Renaissance Group LLC, Stars Investments — an asset-management company that manages the financial, private-equity and real estate investments of Chilean entrepreneur Felipe Ibañez Scott — and City Street Investors, which completed the redevelopment of Union Station. That partnership made the purchase with plans to renovate and lease the property.
