Twenty Ninth Street gets restaurant

BOULDER – A pair of local entrepreneurs will debut a new type of fast-casual restaurant at Twenty Ninth Street in July.

Mod Market, is Anthony Pigliacamto and Rob McColgan’s take on what modern eating should be, “sustainable for yourself and sustainable to the environment.”

The new restaurant will feature brick-oven flatbread pizzas, salads and other fresh foods with no artificial ingredients and preservatives prepared quickly in front of the customer in an open kitchen.

Pigliacamto said customers will be able to make their orders online, and receipts will print out the entire nutritional breakdown of the meal.

“We think transparency in our kitchen and food is one of the ways we can be sustainable,” Pigliacamto said. “You look at the receipt and you can make decisions next time based on the nutritional content – maybe get a chicken instead of steak on your salad next time.”

This is Pigliacamto and McColgan’s first restaurant. Pigliacamto has worked as a design consultant for numerous restaurants and together with McColgan has formed the concept idea. If successful with this prototype, the pair plans to expand the business with more locations.

Mod Market plans to open its 2,500-square-foot restaurant in July on the southwest corner of the Twenty Ninth Street retail district, next to the existing Helly Hansen store.

Also at Twenty Ninth Street, in that same southwest area, Denver-based Smashburger has pulled a permit with the city to open a location there. Company officials could not be reached for comment and Twenty Ninth Street officials said a lease has yet to be signed.

The former 34,000-square-foot Wild Oats location at Twenty Ninth Street remains vacant, but officials say they have been in talks with L.L. Bean to possibly take the space.

Across the retail district at the Whole Foods regional headquarters, the natural grocer has reduced its 81,000 square feet of office space to 43,895 square feet on the second floor. Denver-based Colorado Athletic Club has signed a lease for the 37,055 square feet of space on the first floor and plans to open by late 2009.

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