![]() ![]() "The statues in the park are for workers' rights and labor organizers." The public art and history of the place resonated with his leftie sensibilities and punk-rock aesthetic. ![]() "We fell in love with the town, fell in love with the aesthetic," says Norris. They planned to visit, entertain his kind offer to help them open a store in his building, and politely turn him down. Kayvan Khalatbari When they do, they'll find a familiar companion there: a second Mutiny Information Cafe.įour months ago, at Khalatbari's urging, Mutiny owners Jim Norris and Matt Megyesi took a trip down to Trinidad. With the new, thirty-square-mile Fisher's Peak State Park six miles away sure to attract mountain bikers and northern New Mexico's vibrant arts scene down the highway, Khalatbari is betting the town will soon be a tourist destination as well as a place where disenchanted Denver residents can settle. He plans to open a Sexy Pizza with a yet-to-be-disclosed Denver brewery, a music venue and more. Sexy Pizza founder, former cannabis mogul and 2018 Denver mayoral hopeful Kayvan Khalatbari, who has been a major supporter of comedy, DIY publishing and other creative undertakings in Denver, has spent the past few months buying properties to help turn the town into a cultural hotspot filled with affordable housing and worker-owned businesses. It's seen bloody miners' strikes, served as the gender-reassignment capital of the world, ridden the oil industry roller coaster and, most recently, become a cannabis lover's paradise, with around two dozen dispensaries - one for roughly every 400 people in town.Ĭonservation-minded developer and visionary Dana Crawford has been active in Trinidad since 2016, working on restoring the old opera house, the Fox West Theatre - which has hosted a series of live-stream concerts - and other sites. Split by I-25 and connected by major highways to New Mexico, Kansas and Texas, the old coal-mining town has had a turbulent economy that has boomed and busted since it was founded in 1870. ![]() The latest in a string of Denver businesses to announce a presence in the town: Mutiny Information Cafe, a bookshop, record store, all-ages DIY hub and community gathering spot at 2 South Broadway. The southern Colorado city of Trinidad, population under 9,000, could become the state's next cultural hub - if a who's who of Denver entrepreneurs, cultural mavens and preservationists have their way. ![]()
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