Larimer Square, Denver s first historic district, made some history of its own this week, when the property which includes nearly 250,000 square feet of space on Larimer and Market streets between 14th and 15th streets was sold to Asana Partners, an outfit out of North Carolina, for $92 million. The seller was Jeff Hermanson, who d bought Larimer Square from the Hahn Company in 1993; Hahn had purchased it from Dana Crawford in 1986.
Crawford was the visionary developer who saved the Victorian buildings along what had become part of Denver s skid row in the ’60s and turned the block into a tourist destination; it later became a go-to dining destination for visitors and locals alike. Today Larimer Square still holds some of the city s most popular restaurants though they re closed to indoor dining at the moment.