LeGrue’s building on South Broadway being turned into restaurant, music venue

This story first appeared on BusinessDen.com, a BizWest news partner.
Reed Sparks is firing up a new restaurant and music venue on South Broadway.
The 33-year-old Denver resident is in the midst of renovating a 24,000-square-foot building, built in the 1940s, at 476 S. Broadway in Wash Park West. It was previously home to LeGrue’s, a flower shop and year-round Christmas store that operated for 50 years.
Sparks is calling his business BurnDown, a reference to a fire in 1978 that destroyed much of the building’s interior, leaving a hole in the center that has been incorporated into the design as a three-story atrium.
“We…
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