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Bouquets, the flower shop that operated in the downtown hotel’s annex building, has moved out. Owner BJ Dyer said the hotel wanted him to pay $10,000 a month for his roughly 650-square-foot space.
While business was good, he said the Brown Palace space itself had HVAC issues. The summer was often spent working in over-90-degree temperatures, and in the winter the heat would fail. The last freeze resulted in “a tropical rainstorm of boiling hot water that came down from the ceiling” when the heat came back on two days later, he said.Despite the issues, Dyer said, he would have stayed had the rent remained reasonable.
In an email to BusinessDen, Jana Smith, The Brown Palace’s new general manager, emphasized that Bouquets did not have a contract. She claimed Bouquets hadn’t been paying rent and said “technically they were squatters.” Last month, Westword reported the hotel laid off its bellhops and doormen, and hired Chicago-based SP Plus, a corporate valet company. Those affected by the layoffs told Westword the decision was “a cost-saving measure.”Dyer signed a five-year lease for 2,500 square feet and is paying about $4,000, not including common area maintenance cost, he said. He spent less than $10,000 on light buildout of the space, which was formerly home to a photography studio.
Now on Bannock Street, with a little extra “elbow room,” he has five employees and can see growing that to seven, but no more.As for the Brown Palace, Dyer said there’s no hard feelings. He said he even left the general manager a parting bouquet.
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