DENVER — Over the past several months, Denver7 has reported on some of the challenges facing businesses across town. From clubs to bakerie s, businesses have been forced to close shop.
Among some of the issues business owners have cited for closures are crime , construction and for those along South Broadway, it’s high rents that are getting them priced out.
Mutiny Information Cafe is the latest business that has decided to leave the area and relocate elsewhere.
“We couldn’t afford to stay where we’re staying anymore. The neighborhood’s changing,” said Jim Norris, co-owner of Mutiny Information Cafe.
His shop, which has been a staple in the South Broadway corridor for Denver’s counter-culture scene for more than a decade, will be opening in a new location in Englewood just a few miles south along the same stretch of road.
Norris said it’ll have the same feel as the previous location.
“Maybe less chaos, more organized, focused on the things that we really enjoy a lot. We really enjoy comic books, we really enjoy coffee,” he said. “Doing things like chess club, poetry, things like that. So there’s the community aspect of it.”