May 8, 2020 – A group of restaurant industry professionals and representatives have gotten together to send Mayor Michael Hancock a message: We’ll need more outdoor seating in order to survive.
The group, which includes the directors of business improvement districts along Colfax Avenue and Federal Boulevard as well as many restaurant owners, has sent a letter to Mayor Hancock urging the city’s newly formed Economic Relief and Recovery Committee to come up with a plan to allow restaurants and bars to expand seating and liquor licenses onto sidewalks, parking lots and, in some cases, even closed-off streets and alleys once restaurants are allowed to reopen.
Dan Shah, director of the West Colfax Business Improvement District, and Matthew Bossler, an urban planner and landscape architect, are among those who have been working with seven other BIDs as well as other community organizations and business owners on the project, and Shah drafted the letter with his fellow BID directors and Jill Locantore of the Denver Streets Partnership, encouraging the city to take action soon.
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