Project studies downtown retail mix

BOULDER – The Downtown Boulder Business Improvement District is launching an initiative that could influence the downtown retail-tenant mix.

“This project is not about just filling space, but filling space with tenants that have the best chance of success and will add value to the downtown experience, said Sean Maher, executive director of Downtown Boulder. “We want to target concepts that are unique and will bring incremental traffic downtown.”

Downtown Boulder is working with a team of six MBA students from the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business.

The project has three key components:

A market analysis including the current retail mix downtown…