Englewood's South Broadway Is Opening Its Doors Before the Construction Ends
On the last weekend of October, The Den SoBo held a free open house at 3467 South Broadway with coffee, live music and family photos, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on both Oct. 24 and 25. For that same month, the city's construction plan for the corridor called for new bus shelters, benches and trash bins at Chenango, Tufts, Quincy, Mansfield and Kenyon, more concrete work at Oxford Avenue and topsoil in new planter boxes.
The opening and the construction schedule shared one corridor and one month. That is the story of Englewood's South Broadway this fall. The South Broadway Complete Streets project is due to wrap up in December. The businesses that will share the finished street are opening now, under the work. Several of them have applications before the city on one Wednesday morning next week.
Westword's openings and closings roundup for the week of Oct. 24 listed two Englewood addresses on South Broadway. Together with The Den, they spread the new arrivals across two stretches of the street:
The Den is the most unusual of the three. It's a social club for parents, and Englewood is its second home after its LoHi clubhouse, with opening-weekend events running at both. Founder Chandler Lipe explained the idea to Denver7 when the Englewood expansion was announced in late September: "kids would thrive even more if parents were permitted to thrive or encouraged."
The fall arrivals also join a group that opened earlier this year. Westword's March roundup listed three Englewood openings in the 3200 to 3400 blocks: The Barn South Broadway at 3299, Sukiya Ramen at 3401 and Wapos Cantina at 3495. The Den sits in that same northern cluster, a few doors from Wapos. Bad Ass Coffee and Western Sky are farther south, in the 4200 and 4300 blocks. That puts them in the stretch the city's revitalization project calls "Englewood South," which runs from Hampden Avenue to Belleview Avenue.
So the openings this year have landed in both stretches of the corridor. They have also landed on a street that has been under construction since January.
The South Broadway Complete Streets project covers the paired corridor of South Broadway and South Sherman Street from US-285 to Belleview Avenue. The city budgets it at about $7.54 million for design and construction. Englewood is paying 12%, or $905,000, and federal funds through the Colorado Department of Transportation cover the other $6,635,000. The work focuses on things a pedestrian or bus rider notices: ADA improvements, better bus stops, lighting and landscaping on Broadway. Sherman is being set up as the calmer route for bicycles.
Essential Contractors, Inc. started construction on Jan. 12, 2026, with completion expected in December. By the city's Sept. 4 status report, the project was more than 60% complete, and substantial completion was still set for December. That left roughly 40% of the work for the last four months of the year. All three fall arrivals opened inside that window.
Some pieces are already back in use:
Milestone | Reported in |
|---|---|
Renovated stops reopened at northbound Oxford, southbound Mansfield and northbound Kenyon | July update |
Southbound Kenyon bus stop reopened; most west-side light-pole locations finished, about six remaining | August update |
New shelters, benches and bins planned at Chenango, Tufts, Quincy, Mansfield and Kenyon | October plans |
Oxford Avenue has been the slowest piece. The August update said work there was in its final stage, but the schedule had been extended because of an unforeseen site condition and a conflict with an adjacent building's foundation. The city's October update still listed excavation, drainage, concrete and corner work at Oxford. It added that some work had been rescheduled around stormwater improvements. Separately, a city utility notice in mid-October flagged lead service line replacement on South Broadway, with traffic control on Oct. 15 and 16.
The city's general guidance for the project hasn't changed. Partial and inside-lane closures move along Broadway near the medians between Belleview and Hampden. Sidewalks on Broadway and Sherman may close, with alternate pedestrian routes provided. The October update closes with a caveat that holds for the rest of the year:
"Work activities and sequencing may change based on weather, site conditions and construction progress."
If you bike, Sherman is next. The project page scheduled installation of the South Sherman Bike Corridor for September 2026. The July update forecast work starting at West Chenango and moving north, with bike-lane striping and signage in both directions in late September to early October.
The rebuilt street is due in December, but several businesses on it reach a milestone sooner. On Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 11 a.m., the Englewood Liquor and Marijuana Licensing Authority meets in Council Chambers at 1000 Englewood Parkway. Its agenda has three new applications:
Two of the three are on the northern stretch of Broadway, a block apart by address. The third, La Morena, is just off Broadway on Belleview at the corridor's southern edge. Under the city's public hearing notice, anyone can comment at the hearing or send written comments to the City Clerk. None of these applications has been decided. The Den is already open as a club and café, so a license would add to what it serves.
Of the three applicants, the Corvus project is the one residents will feel most if it opens. The Fox and The Raven is the bakery inside the Corvus Coffee family. It began in 2020 and supplies pastries to every Corvus café. Its existing bakery is at the Corvus location at 5846 S. Wadsworth Blvd. in Littleton, open daily from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
The bakery's own site now lists a second address, 3395 S. Broadway in Englewood, with a building rendering and the words "New Location Coming Soon." It gives no opening date. For now, Littleton is the only place to get the bakery's pastries straight from its own bakery. When the Englewood site opens, the northern cluster will have a bakery-café alongside ramen, a cantina, The Barn and The Den's café.
The finished street will connect to a bigger project nearby. City Council has passed CB 52 on second reading. It authorizes a phased end to the former Weingarten ground lease at CityCenter and the transfer of CityCenter property east of Inca Street to New Englewood LLC. In return, the city acquires the former 24 Hour Fitness building and the retail space in the west ArtWalk apartment building next to the CityCenter Circle, plus an option to buy the parcel that includes Tokyo Joe's. The concepts under discussion include housing, local retail, a hotel and expanded parks and gathering spaces. The city says no final master plan has been chosen, and Phase 1 design is expected to begin in early 2027.
Until then, the next several weeks fill up quickly:
Holiday Express sits at the southern end of the same corridor, just past where the Broadway work stops at Belleview. If the December target holds, families driving down Broadway to the train in the second week of the month may find the new shelters, medians and planters finished. They'll also pass a coffee shop, a taproom and a family club that weren't open on that street a year ago.
If you're thinking about what the new South Broadway means for your own block, whether you're buying near it or selling, I'm happy to talk it through. Lisa Taylor follows these corridors week by week. Let's Connect.
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