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There are still meat hooks bolted into the ceiling of the former walk-in refrigerator at 38th Ave. and Reed St. in Wheat Ridge, a remnant of the original tenant, Valente’s, which hung meat there from 1964 until it closed in 2008.
“It’s actually kind of creepy in there,” says Eddie Renshaw, co-owner of King of Wings, swinging the walk-in’s eight-inch-thick heavy door shut. Renshaw and his partner Evan Pierce, along with King of Wings’ kitchen manager Mitch Conley, are giving Westword a tour of the work in progress inside the space that sometime this winter will host two new restaurants under one roof — Snipeburger and Tillie’s Tavern Pizza…