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Busy month in Cherry Creek

Cherry Creek, one of the most coveted Denver neighborhoods to open a store, has been busy with new store openings and reopenings in August.

This month, Cherry Creek saw the additions of clothing store Rhone, fashion brand Reformation, a Swatch store and the reopening of Enstrom Candies.

Switzerland-based watchmaker Swatch opened its first Colorado store in the Cherry Creek Shopping Center earlier this month. Reformation’s Cherry Creek mall store is also the sustainable fashion chain’s first location within the state. The brand’s store was built with its new “Retail X” format, a proprietary technology-based store that brings some of its online experience to the physical location, according to Reformation.

Rhone, a fashion brand tailored for a “performance lifestyle,” opened a store at 158 Fillmore St., marking 16 retail locations across the U.S. It sells fitness wear and workwear using versatile fabrics.

Grand Junction-based Enstrom Candies reopened its Cherry Creek location at 201 University Blvd. this month after closing in June to remodel its toffee shop.

Meanwhile, Elway’s is closing its original steakhouse location in Cherry Creek at the end of the month to make way for the new mega office, retail and housing development on the shopping center’s west side.

Denver International Airport’s new offerings

Another slate of restaurants and shops are coming to Denver International Airport.

A few months after debuting new concessions to go into the airport’s Concourse A expansion area, DIA is now looking toward Concourse B.

On Tuesday, the airport will debut three new concepts. Two of the openings are expansions of Denver restaurants from the Low Highlands neighborhood. El Chingon, a LoHi restaurant founded in 2010, offers an innovative twist to traditional Mexican cuisine. Mizu Sushi Izakaya, first opened in 2016, is a Japanese-style tapas bar.

The third new business on Concourse B’s West expansion area is Denver-based coffee shop Aviano Coffee.

Then next month, immersive art museum Meow Wolf Denver is slated to open a retail shop in the airport where “the lore of Denver’s airport and Meow Wolf come together,” a Meow Wolf spokesperson said. The new store is expected to open Sept. 5.

Redaptive opens HQ in McGregor Square

A company specializing in helping other companies reduce energy use and their carbon footprint has a new headquarters.

Last week, Redaptive debuted its new base in Lower Downtown’s McGregor Square. The energy-as-a-service firm moved into a 25,000-square-foot office on the eighth floor of the development built by the owner of the Colorado Rockies.

Redaptive, which relocated to Denver from San Francisco in 2019, moved from a smaller office within The Circa Building in the Lower Highlands neighborhood.

The new headquarters is meant to accommodate the company’s growth, Redaptive said in a news release. The firm had 17 employees in 2023 and has grown fivefold over the last year. It said that the new office can hold twice the size of its current Denver employee count.

“I am really, really excited that we are going to open our new office here. As you all know, we moved our headquarters to Denver about a year ago, and we are nearly at 100 people now,” Redaptive CEO Arvin Vohra said in the release. “We’ve seen this community’s commitment to sustainability. We are all here for that commitment to climate change and to address sustainable outcomes for commercial/industrial buildings.”