Even Steven
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Business closingThe Bistro is closing but a new Vietnamese joint is quickly taking it's place. They promise to have a very original menu.
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Guest
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Ah oh didn't know there was a Bistro.Where? 
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2000 Blk Sheridan next to Tamale Kitchen
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What does this have to do with City Government?
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Bout time we got a Vietnamese place in the neighboorhood. I feel bad for the bistro, but I didn't see them making it with their prices. Pho, just as the cold weather is coming - Awesome!
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Go with the Pho...This thread might be better in another topic but it seems like this is the only topic people read and post to anyway. Urban Planning, maybe?
Oh well, it happens.
Pho is really great! They are a perfect compliment to the ethnic dining scene in Edgewater. Best of luck to them!
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Guest
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From Faux to Pho?Apropos!
and way to go!
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The Vietnamese place, Vina Pho, opened yesterday. I haven't tried it, but I stopped in today and looked at the menu. It looks like a good menu with reasonable prices. They have pho, noodle bowls, and a few other dishes. I'm sure I'll try it this week. Hopefully they'll get a sign up soon, to let people know they're open. I hope it's good so we have a good pho place nearby.
BTW what's next for the Okoboji spot?
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If we don't improve our nightly entertainment district to attract customers many more businesses will close. Glendale is doing a new creek walk where bars and resturants are lined up along cherry creek and they are booming. The Ice ranch idea is fine but not being developed. The City of Lakewood has a spanish joint at 6th and Sheridan that packs in about 300 cars per night which translates to about 30-40 thousand dollars being spent by customers each night. Develop an entertainment draw other than EW Inn or watch the slow death of many local businesses.
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I think you need to refigure that estimate on the Mexican restaurant.
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Ole
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Spanish food is a whole lot different than Mexican food. It would be great to have a real Spanish restaurant in Edgewater.
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The 6th and Sheridan local is a mexican nightclub. I would not want that here but it does look like it makes a ton of money. I would like to see something here other than that loud head banging music at the cooler. I can't hold a conversation or hear myself think when I leave that place. Every area that is successful like Glendale or Stapleton has entertainment that residents can walk to and outsiders are drawn to. An entertainment development would be a big plus for this community and would get my full support.
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Ice Queen
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Ice RanchIt looks like the Ice Ranch is still a good possibility.
Wouldn't it be great if that whole block became a wonderful little walk-to place with nice restaraunts and maybe a couple of unique little shops? Perhaps even a center island with a grassy area, benches and perhaps even a fountain?
It would take the Ice guys some doing to convince the current slumlord to work with them, but bigger miracles have happened!
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Young Blood
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It seems like such a long shot to me. In a down economy nightclubs, bars and resturants with comfort food do well. I envision something like the Southlands set up or Belmar. Keep in mind that St Anthony's Hospital is going away and no businesses are being planned in it's place only residential. It would be nice to make Edgewater the place people want to be instead of the trip downtown. A nice walking bridge over Sheridan connecting E/W to the Park. I see dollars rolling in and property values skyrocketing if the Manager does his job.   Nothing but sunshine ahead.
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I wouldn't worry about the city manager doing his job. It's the rest of us that need to step up and support him.
I have always liked the idea of a bridge over Sheridan, but that is a big financial commitment and Denver would have to be in favor of both the idea and the financial input. An option would be to make a pedestrian island in the center with a walk signal on the island as well as both sides.
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I think if memory serves me correctly John Moreno proposed such a project which was shot down. I wish we would have listened to him then. Would a grant be possible for such a project? Sheridan is so dangerous to walk across I won't let my kids do it.
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Sheridan is a State Highway and the State is reluctant to do any thing in this area. Perhaphs we should call our State representatives and let them know the problem.
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they said an elevator would work...and then there’s ADA. Bridges have been proposed and studied by many around here. Thinking it up again is the easy part but just try putting one on paper at actually works...
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Hope
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What about using lotto money from the parks since Sloans Lake is a Park? We might even use some of our Park money and Connect Sloans to Citizens Park , wouldn't that be great if it's possible.
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Let's see. The Denver Parks Department, a State Highway and little old Edgewater. Sounds like pie in the sky to me. Why would Denver or the State Department of Highways spend millions of dollars to merge Sloans Lake with the swamp we call Citizens Park.
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bridge to Edgewater?
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skepticacross both City and County boundaries... Checking the "political will" meter, I'd be dumbfounded if a bridge over Sheridan ever got off the ground.
If infrastructure and public works projects become a priority (however, if the lack of support for Fast Tracks by the feds is any indication, that isn't happening, to my knowledge) maybe it could be more than a pie in the sky.
Edgewater would be better off to focus on their own parks. Children and the elderly simply do not have access to Sloane's Lake unless they are escorted over there. The lights change to fast and CDOT is more interested in moving traffic. If fact, for many of the elderly that is also true with Walker-Branch park due to the traffic and fast changing lights at the cross walks on 20th.
They end up with not much but a ball park and a bench or two but no walking paths into a park.
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If Edgewater's entertainment is properly developed perhaps lots of people would want to visit and live here then the bridge could be a reality.
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Entertainment sells! I dont care what city it's in Blackhawk, Glendale, Denvers Stapleton, Lakewoods belmar.
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