A classical Denver building located in the city’s Golden Triangle neighborhood and housing a popular theater is now in line for an extensive renovation.
Located at 1080 N. Acoma Street, the nearly 9,500-square-foot structure was originally a church built in 1895 and serving an Evangelical Free Church congregation. It became the home to the Upper United Pentecostal Church in 1966, before being repurposed into theater space some three decades later.
Now the two-story structure, which sits on a less than one-acre site, has been purchased for $1.9 million by local real estate executive David Spira, long-time chief executive officer of the Denver-based Kew Realty.
In announcing that purchase, the company Blue West Capital, facilitating the transaction, noted in a press release that the property “attracted strong interest from a broad buyer pool, including value-added investors, developers, and owner-users.”
Spira has indicated that he plans to renovate major aspects of the structure, which includes giving the building a facelift. To that end, Spira has also said that while the current tenant, the Curious Theater Company, will leave the premises during the renovation work, it will return to the structure once that work is complete. “They have had a 30-year history in this building,” Spira said in a statement, “and this investment helps ensure they will have another 30 years here.”
The Curious Theater Company bills itself as a “provocative modern theater” and has been positively reviewed in publications nationally.
As currently planned, work on the building will begin by summer with an anticipated completion date of late 2027.
April 27, 2026
By Garry Boualrd
Curious Theater Poster
