Retailers: Sales range from’OK’ to ‘phenomenal’

BOULDER – While most of the Boulder Valley’s new shopping centers feature old favorite retailers – Lowe’s, Michaels and Petco are sprouting up in Harvest Junction in Longmont, for example – a few new retailers have opened shop as well.

At Twenty Ninth Street, Boulder’s six-month-old “lifestyle shopping district,” several retailers have bravely entered the local marketplace with their first Boulder Valley storefronts.

Sales results for the first half year range from “OK” to “phenomenal,” but every retailer agrees on one thing – as more stores open and the temperature increases so will consumer spending.

Muttropolis bills itself as “a utopia for pets…