Hard lessons from the 16th Street Mall: Ana’s Norwegian Bakeri closes after just three months

Ana Fanakra sat in her bakery on the 16th Street Mall on what turned out to be its last day in business, Feb. 3, waiting for customers. But not many came, and she decided to close up early.

“We had really low sales that day,” she said. “We hadn’t even made $100 yet, which was a very accurate picture of what the last couple of months looked like for us.”

The next day, she decided to call it quits, closing both the original location of Ana’s Norwegian Bakeri, which opened in Centennial in June 2021, and the downtown bakery, at 918 16th Street Mall, which had opened in November 2023. Then she filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

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