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Volume 2, Issue 2
The born-again brewery
,~ Deteriorating Tivoli to be restored· I _..,
by Frank Mullen
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The Auraria Board last week· narrowed the field of prospective Tivoli developers to a Dallas firm which wants to turn the historic brewery into an "arts and crafts center" and a subsidiary of a Canadian firm which proposes to transform the buildings into a modern shopping and entertainment complex. Five companies were interested in developing -the site and the ~ Board's Tivoli Sub-committee met with representatives from each of the groups Sept. 5. The final selection will be made within 30 days. ''The committee selected two groups who seem to have a better ~ financial · base and a higher likelihood of successful development,'' Dan Paulien, Auraria director of facilities planning and utilization, told the Board Sept. 10. "We have requested more in* formation from each of the groups and the committee may want to meet with them one more time." James Coker, Walter K;oelbel and William Burrow are businessmen from Denver and --< Dallas. The group wants to devote the interior of the Tivoli into a center for artists, craftsmen, and art galleries. Coker put togethei a
similar project in Dallas. and sent one of the maiti ceiling far as I know the recent damages Trizec Western, a subsidiary of beams crashing through the. (to the opera house) hasn't Trizec Corp. of Calgary, Alberta, balcony and splintering to the changed anybody's plans." · Brewmaster John Good had the submitted a proposal to turn the floor. A lattice of steel scaffolds building into a shopping center now ho~ds up the roof and sunlight original building constructed in with shops, offices and theatres. filters through a grillwork of rot- 1859. It was the first brewery in Trizec is in partnership with four. ted- boards. The ancient ope'ra Colorado, and possesses the oldest members of the Associates for the . house and brewery, included on well in Denver. The design was by Redevelopment of Tivoli (ART), the National Register of Historic F .C. Eberly and is of th~ Victhe ftrm which held two previous Places since 1972, is covered with . torian-Italianate style with a leases on the property. The par- 100 years of dust. definite Bavarian flavor. Today its tners have taken the name of ''Everyone knew there was design is unique and there are no Tivoli Development Limited and· going to be structural problems in other examples of its. kind in the their plan is similar to the original the Turnball,'' Heydon said. ''As u~s. RELATED PHOTOS PG. JJ ART proposal. . Paulien said the committee will be contacting the two finalists STODEHT IHPOT HELPS keep the OCD during the next two weeks. When snackbar ·from becoming a · memory. the selection is made, he said, the Vlsaally disabled wlll now manage the board can then begin negotiations food service ... pg. J on a lease agreement for the approximately 133,000 gross square feet of Tivoli soace. THE GREEHIHG OF the Platte River Is Even if the lease is agreed upon well underway as Denver•s longest quickly, however, it will be a lo~g bat least-known park opens ...Jpg. I time .b efore construction is completed owing to the extent of the HIGGLETY PIGGLETY TIVOLI Brewproject and the advanced deter-ery. still It. stands empty In seventyioration of the building. nine. Photos ... pg. 11 The Denver Turnball within the Tivoli Brewery, the site of German PLOS: Help for violent men. The opera performances for decades, Stadent Body. Disco alternatives. The now resembles a bombed-OJ.It Who. M$C sports roandup and more. World War II leftover. The thunderstorms of August battered the 97-year-old Turnhall • ~~-...,_.___._......,_ _..__.•_ . _._._._._. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
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