DENVER — Summer on Downtown Denver’s rebranded 16th Street started loudly: a pounding electronic dance music concert on Memorial Day , followed by a “Summer Kickoff” event the next weekend. Both events, meant to celebrate most of the corridor’s long-running construction being complete, drew thousands of people.

“We wait a long, long, long time to having this here now,” he said in May as people flocked back to the area for the concert.

Now with those big events in the rear-view mirror, Denver7 checked back in with Martinez to see if the new 16th Street had continued to make a financial difference for the restaurant.

Martinez estimates his sales are up 85% compared to the previous summer when the street was consumed by construction.

“Before it was dark, dangerous, yeah. Now looks so

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