Denver already knows the Pavilions isn’t what it used to be.
When I was a kid only a couple of years older than the Pavilions, which opened in November 1998, my mother would take us there on the RTD bus from Aurora almost every weekend to see a movie and do some shopping. For me, the gray United Artists cylinder and lively walkways of the Pavilions were Denver.
While the Regal UA Theater, one of the original Pavilions tenants, is still going strong, others — like the Hard Rock Cafe and Wolfgang Puck’s — left years ago. Today, more than half of the units are vacant, and even Robo Mike is gone…