RiNo entrepreneur to offer ‘taste of Denver’ on 16th with $3M in DDA cash

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An Ethiopian restaurant where Taco Bell used to be. A vintage shop in the former RadioShack. A fashion boutique taking a regional bank’s onetime space.

Jevon Taylor has 18,000 square feet of retail space along the 16th Street Mall and he’s going all-in on local operators, with the help of an expected $2.7 million from Denver’s Downtown Development Authority .

“We’re bringing some of the top small businesses that Denver has to offer, everything from cultured foods, from Ethiopian restaurants, Mexican restaurants