Part of Golden’s charm as a tourist attraction owes to the conjunction of its Old West main street with the “Howdy Folks!” sign, and the town’s ongoing operational roots — the Coors Brewery and the Colorado School of Mines.
Now a Coors family development company created around its land holdings in downtown is readying a new, walkable link between Washington Street and what had been downtown’s least charming site: the old Coors ceramics operation between Clear Creek and the CO-58 Golden Freeway.
“Golden is crazy busy on weekends,” Darden Coors, CEO of family-owned AC Development, told The Denver Gazette, discussing the broad appeal of the town in the blocks beyond the development site. She is a fifth generation in the family of Adolph Coors, who founded the brewery in 1873…