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July 2, 2020 • THE VILLAGER | PAGE 7
GV agrees to $300,000 in sales tax rebates for new food hall BY FREDA MIKLIN GOVERNMENTAL REPORTER
At its regular meeting on June 15, the Greenwood Village City Council agreed to rebate the incremental sales tax generated by a new food hall being developed at 6575 Greenwood Plaza Boulevard, the former home of C.B.& Potts restaurant. Construction is planned to begin in August and opening is set for February or March 2021. The location is within the city’s Arapahoe Entertainment District (AED). Business or property owners who spend money to redevelop there are eligible to receive a rebate of all incremental sales tax GV collects in the first year from a new business at the location and reducing percentages of incremental sales tax for the next four years. The planned food hall, which will be known as “The Grange,” expects to produce $485,955 more in city sales tax over its first five years in operation than would have been generated
by C.B. & Potts. and we’re going to still Using the formula have the brewing operapproved by GV ation there.” Hawkins in its AED prointroduced Troy Guard gram, that would of the TAG Restaurant result in GV giving Group as a partner in $301,949 of that this restaurant and in the incremental sales real estate. tax to the property The discussion owner. among the city council The purpose of about murals, a new the rebate program exterior patio, bicycle is to reimburse the racks, and the relocation property owner for of handicapped parking new exterior finishspaces on the property es to the building elicited differences of and site, including opinion between council public improvemembers about which Chef Troy Guard of the TAG Restaurant Group ments. costs for what types of told the GV city council about plans for the new Kevin Hawkins Grange food hall. Clorox wipes were there to improvements are eligiof Hawkins Deobserve good cleaning techniques for witnesses. ble for reimbursement Photo by Freda Miklin velopment, who is with sales tax dollars, inthe manager of HD dicating a need to further Arapahoe, LLC presented the clarify what may be included. office and Fiddler’s Green, we case for the rebate agreement to really think we can become a Council Member Anne Inthe city council. He said, “We gebretsen introduced herself to major destination inside your think you’re very forward-think- city.” Describing the operation, Hawkins as “part of the group ing, creating this district to that established the AED conhe said, “I think we’re going re-invigorate this location… cept.” Soon after, she said, “The to have 10 or 11 food stalls. All of the multi-family and the improvements that we decide on We’re going to have a full bar, for these tax rebates are the discretion of this council. The committee was
very specific that it was going to be up to us to decide whether there was value to anything that a developer brought forward to us.” When Troy Guard testified, he said about murals, “I know we’re not downtown, we’re up in Denver Tech Center, I think we’ll be one of the first food halls to open up here, which will be super exciting. I think it would be amazing inside of this space if we could get local artists to come in and do murals and do graffiti or do anything like that, because the building in the back, we want it to pop, we want people to drive by and be like, “Whoa! What is that?.... It could go with a theme… like a chalk festival.” He pointed out that young people could use social media to post pictures that say, “Where am I? I’m in Denver Tech Center. I’m in this killer new area, the (Arapahoe Entertainment) District…All my restaurants are graffitied or tagged up or artsy and people just love that stuff.” Ingebretsen said, “We do want this to be unique and we do want it to catch people’s eyes but we’re out here in the burbs…and by the way, you’re not in the Denver Tech Center, you’re in Greenwood Village, so get used to that.” Fmiklin.villager@gmail.com
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These are renderings of the Grange food hall planned for the Arapahoe Entertainment District.
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