Downtown Denver also kind of just sucks. A couple good restaurants sure, but 16th street mall (recently rebranded as “16th St. The Denver Way”) is comparable to City Center in SF.
Whenever friends move here I say “don’t live downtown” and inevitably they do and they hate it.
16 St. is way better than it was. If you haven't been down there, go walk around at lunch sometime, there are a bunch of normies down there now. Yeah its all chains still, but it's not actively hostile like it was a few years ago.
Whenever friends move here I say “don’t live downtown” and inevitably they do and they hate it.