open-air shopping complex · $$ · since 1998
Denver Pavilions
Three open-air levels of shops, restaurants and the last downtown cinema.
The open-air block straddling 16th Street between Welton and Glenarm, three levels of national stores, a handful of local boutiques, six restaurants and the Regal multiplex on top. It is not a destination in the way Larimer Square is, but it is where downtown actually goes for a T.J. Maxx run, a movie, or somewhere to sit down between the theaters and 16th Street. Glenarm Plaza hosts local artist markets and a rotating exhibition schedule. Parking is in the garage off Glenarm and is the easiest to find in this stretch of downtown.
Why go. The reliable place to park, eat and see a movie on the theater-district end of 16th Street.
Park in the Glenarm garage rather than circling 16th Street; it is the closest structured parking to the Paramount.
A short walk from Denver Pavilions
Regal UA Denver Pavilions 4DX & RPX
$$Downtown's only remaining multiplex, up on the third level of the Pavilions.
Downtown, a few blocks over · 500 16th Street #310
historic concert hallParamount Theatre
$$A 1930 movie palace on Glenarm that now books comedians and touring bands.
Downtown, a few blocks over · 1621 Glenarm Place
Peaks Lounge
$$$Twenty-seventh floor bar with a wall of glass facing the Front Range.
Downtown, a few blocks over · 650 15th Street
54thirty Rooftop
$$$Downtown's highest open-air rooftop, named for the elevation it sits at.
Downtown, a few blocks over · 1475 California Street
Ship Tavern
$$$Model ships, mahogany and prime rib, open in the Brown Palace since 1934.
Downtown, a few blocks over · 321 17th Street
The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa
$$$$An 1892 triangle of sandstone with a nine-story atrium and afternoon tea.
Downtown, a few blocks over · 321 17th Street