TATTERED COVER PLANS TO MOVE TO MCGREGOR SQUARE
Tattered Cover will pull up LoDo stakes to move into Rockies owner Monfort’s McGregor Square next year
Beloved Denver bookstore chain the Tattered Cover plans to move out of its historic LoDo space and into something much more contemporary next year.
Tattered Cover Book Store will be a marquee tenant in McGregor Square, the 655,000 square-foot, combination hotelcondo-commercial project Colorado Rockies co-owner Dick Monfort is developing across from Coors Field at 20th and Wazee streets.
The project, named for late Rockies team president Keli McGregor, is expected to be completed by New Year’s Day. The Tattered Cover’s Lower Downtown location would move in sometime over the following three months, according to a news release issued Monday.
“The McGregor Square development will be a boon to the ballpark and LoDo neighborhoods, and given the strong local flavor of the project, it’s a great fit for Tattered Cover,” Tattered Cover co-owner and CEO Len Vlahos said in a news release. “This move, when combined with our existing satellite store in Union Station, will ensure we continue to have a significant presence downtown for many years to come.”
Vlahos and his wife, Kristen Gilligan, bought the Tattered Cover chain from
Joyce Meskis in 2015 after Meskis guided the local icon for more than 40 years. The company’s LoDo store at 16th and Wynkoop streets arrived in the onceforgotten, now-booming neighborhood in 1994, a year before the Rockies played their first home game at Coors Field and helped rejuvenate the historic area.
When the McGregor Square store opens it will be on part of the first two floors of the project’s residential building that fronts Wazee Street. Dick Monfort will be a resident of one of the condos above.
“Tattered Cover has been quintessentially Denver for 50 years and it is exactly the type of retail partner we were hoping to have at McGregor Square,” Monfort, the baseball ownerturned-developer, said in a statement Monday. “We always wanted a diverse mix of offerings, and we couldn’t be more proud to have locally- and familyowned Tattered Cover be one of our first public announcements.”
Beyond its 176-room hotel and 75,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, McGregor Square aims to attract visitors with a 29,000-square-foot public plaza outfitted with giant screens and a state-of-theart audio system and the Rockies team hall of fame, which will be located in the hotel building along 20th Street.