East Simpson leads renaissance in Lafayette

LAFAYETTE — Downtowns across Boulder County are an interesting mix; often with cyclical periods of prosperity and neglect. But by far the most forgotten over much of its 130-year history had to be East Simpson Street in Lafayette.

Until now, that is.

“It’s one of those streets that you fall upon by accident,” said East Simpson Coffee co-owner Leslie Wing-Pomeroy, who founded her business roughly eight months ago. “But I really got a sense that something was going to happen with this street.”

Once the center of a bustling mining and farming community founded…