As the Ralston Fields urban renewal tract nears completion of its 25-year redevelopment, residents in the up-and-coming neighborhood will soon have another local hotspot, the Arvada Beer Garden, which is set to open on Monday, July 7, pending final inspections.
The beer garden, located at 9248 W. 58th Place, was built in partnership between the Arvada Urban Renewal Authority and City Street Investors, who have overseen construction of the Lowry Beer Garden, Edgewater Beer Garden, Green Valley Ranch Beer Garden and the recently opened Schoolyard Beer Garden.
In addition to offering local and regional beers, the beer garden will offer a full food menu and be home to 44 trees and over 1,000 perennial plants and shrubs.
Joe Vostrejs, one of the founders of City Street Investors, said the goal is for the beer garden to become a community gathering place.
“I like to describe it as a little bit like going to a great park with a really, really good concession stand,” Vostrejs said. “It’s really going to be a nice, lush environment with lots of flowers and trees that we’re going to be looking forward to growing into big shade trees in the coming years.”
The beer garden is accessible from the Ralston Creek Trail, and its location within the budding Ralston Creek neighborhood brings a different dimension to the community, AURA Executive Director Carrie Briscoe said.
“It’s part of the Ralston Creek master plan, which includes The Shops at Ralston Creek; the Five Guys, Tokyo Joe’s, the Wingstop…So, we have the national tenants, kind of the larger food chains on the other corner,” Briscoe said. “The beer garden is kind of a nice complement, a regional offering, and really the cornerstone, I guess, ‘the living room’ of that master development.
“It’s a really great location there at Ralston Central Park, Ralston Creek Trail, the new Garrison Garden Paseo,” Briscoe continued. “So it’s really like a nice placemaking opportunity for the community to gather and linger, versus, you know, the other side that’s more just like convenience, on-the-go type of stuff.”
AURA sold City Street Investors the land for $230,000 and included a $1.6 million incentive to help with public improvements for the project, Briscoe said. Vostrejs said City Street Investors spent about $4 million on the project on their end.
Vostrejs said that assuming the final inspections with the city go according to plan, the Arvada Beer Garden should open for the first time at 11 a.m. on Monday, July 7.