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Top 10 Reasons It’s Great for The Daily Sentinel to be downtown
So we’re not building a brand-new office out by the airport.
Big deal. I was already dreading leaving downtown anyway.
What our beloved Daily Sentinel abode lacks in ambiance (windows, mostly), it makes up for in accessibility. Everything I need is within a 5-minute walk from right here.
So, in honor of all-things downtown, and to put off working on a month-end report, I offer:
“The Top 10 Reasons It’s Great to be Downtown”
10. Green Tea Smoothies from Main Street Bagels. Some don’t like its gritty goodness. Those people are wrong. The Green Tea Smoothie is a grown-up milkshake/lunch in a cup.
9. Watching for the first crocuses to spear through the soil in the downtown flower beds in the spring.
8. Hart Music. Where to start: the little cubbies of multicolored guitar picks, the trade-in amps in the back, the drum room downstairs, running into people you know making payments on their lay-ways: It’s ground zero for local music.
7. Colorado Riverfront Trail. There’s no bad day that can’t be improved upon by taking a walk down to the river and scribbling in the sand with a stick. I don’t know why it works, but it does.
6. La Paninoteca’s Main Street move to Coffee Muggers. Panini are served with delicately dressed salad greens. You leave feeling you’ve treated your body well.
5. Pollux’s buy-one-get-one-half-price rack. It’s a fun place to start even if you just end up just buying a T-shirt or $6 pair of Lucite earrings.
4. Blue Moon Bar & Grille, also known as The Daily Sentinel’s Northern Bureau. Greek Lasagna day, Monte Cristo sandwiches, Brad and Becky’s hospitality: It’s all good.
3. The Museum of Western Colorado. Have you ever climbed up in the big purple tower and surveyed your domain? If you haven’t, you should.
2. Brown Cycles and Ruby Canyon Cycles. Who doesn’t need a ding-dong bell or generator head lamp? All those bikes we’re all buying come with all kinds of cool accessories and these shops can hook you up.
1. We’ve been here since 1893. It feels like home.
Comments
By Heather
August 1, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this
Those all sound like very good reasons to stay. Why mess with a good thing, there is no need for a new building, you have a good thing. Instead of a new building maybe remodel and add some windows.
By Lynn
August 6, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this
OK fine. If we have to be mature about it, we can add the free toffee samples at Enstrom’s just two blocks away.
By Laurena
August 7, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this
Enstrom’s was a glaring omission, to be sure, not only for the toffee samples, but also for the coffee.
By Michelle
August 10, 2008 9:06 PM | Link to this
Is Seventh Street Cafe still there? Being walkable distance to their green chile was a bennie.
By Laurena
August 18, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this
Believe it or not there’s a funeral home there now. Seventh Street Cafe is still alive and well on Main Street as Main Street Cafe.
By Acai Berry Power
August 27, 2008 1:40 AM | Link to this
Nice bog you have here. I pretty much lurk the internet when I’m bored and read all I can about the organic lifestyle, but I really liked you view on things. I’ll bookmark the site and subscribe to the feed!