A building in the Congress Park neighborhood of Denver that has been the long-time home to a popular eatery is now being listed for sale.
The one-story structure at 3100 East Colfax Avenue measures just under 5,600 square feet and sits on a roughly 0.2-acre piece of property off one of the busiest thoroughfares in the city.
The site itself has parking spaces for 19 vehicles and is zoned urban mix use.
Listed with the Denver-based realtor Sanborn and Company, the building is being offered for its redevelopment potential, or as an ideal place for a restaurant or bar.
Originally built in 1938, the structure underwent a renovation in 2012. The property, in a part of the city with a mixture of older residential and mostly one-story retail space, has been assessed for just under $1 million.
Tenant Annie’s Café and Bar, which moved to the site in 2008 after operating at another Denver location for nearly three decades, is expected to move out once the building is sold. That restaurant has long been a local mainstay and favorite of reviewers.
The 2005 book Denver Dines described Anne’s Café and Bar as a “bastion of nostalgic Americana” offering a “great French toast and other diner a.m. classics all day.”
The 3100 East Colfax Avenue building earlier housed a vegetarian restaurant as well as a jazz club.
Reports indicate that the owners of the Annie’s Café and Bar may move to another location upon the sale of the East Colfax site.
By Garry Boulard