Larimer Square may never be the same. On December 15, Asana Partners closed a deal to purchase 25 properties with nearly 250,000 square feet of space on Larimer and Market streets between 14th and 15th streets. The seller was Jeff Hermanson, who has owned Larimer Square since 1993 and has been one of the driving forces in making the block one of Denver s top restaurant destinations over the decades. (The sale price was $92 million, according to BusinessDen.)
Even before Hermanson took over, Larimer Square had its share of fine dining establishments and fun family eateries (if you didn t eat crepes at the Magic Pan in the ’70s, your Denver childhood was incomplete). Larimer Square first came together as a single entity in 1971 under the ownership of Dana Crawford, who saved many Larimer Street edifices from the wrecking ball in the ’60s. Crawford sold the Square to the Hahn Company in 1986, which sold it to Hermanson.