The smell of sewage and gas has been bothering businesses at the Lowry Town Center for years, forcing Petite Gateaux and Smashburger to leave the complex at 200 Quebec Street in 2025, according to court documents and a Denver City Council rep, but the shopping center’s owner has been unresponsive to the complaints so far.
The first business to leave the Lowry Town Center because of the alleged stench was Smashburger, which shuttered last May. The burger chain closed the location without paying the last three months’ rent and six years before its lease was set to expire, which came to light through a lawsuit filed by the shopping center’s owner, Weingarten Miller Lowry, in August.
Weingarten Miller Lowry LLC is the Colorado subsidiary of Kimco Realty, a New York-based company that owns shopping centers with grocery-store anchors. Weingarten Miller Lowry was formed in part by Denver developer Skip Miller in 1998, shortly before it won the contract to develop the Lowry Town Center on part of the former Lowry Air Force Base property. The complex opened in 2002, and Kimco took over all Weingarten Miller Lowry properties when the two companies merged in 2021…