The next step of the Holmes Hardware building’s $15.3 million revitalization is just around the corner after Denver-based commercial real estate developers closed on the purchase of the historic structure at 400 S. Union Ave. Friday.
Fuel and Iron Project developers Nathan Stern and Zach Cytryn, who work with about 40 different restaurants in Denver as professional real estate brokers, hope to close on their financing package July 9 which will allow for construction work to begin July 19 on the landmark building.
If construction work all goes as planned, the ground-floor food court the first ever for Pueblo will open around May 1, 2022.
The 33,000-square-foot Union Avenue gem was rebuilt in 1915 after the 1911 wood-framed version was destroyed by fire. It withstood the 1921 flood and housed Holmes Hardware until 1948.