Improper City co-founder plans venue with pickleball, music, more

In 2018, Justin Riley went to a plumbing warehouse in a remote part of north Denver to pick up some equipment for a new business he was starting, Improper City.

Six years later, he has returned for his next project – transforming the warehouse itself.

Riley, 36, and his team of Giovanni Leone, 31, and Colton Cartwright, 33, plan to convert the 62,000-square-foot building at 3625 E. 48th Ave. — northwest of Colorado Boulevard and Interstate 70 — into a destination for Denverites.

Dubbed “Moodswing,” the business will be an entertainment campus of sorts, with golf simulators, dart boards, shuffleboards and live music, all anchored by 12 pickleball courts and food and drink offerings. There will be 43,000 square feet of indoor space and 33,000 square feet outside for patrons to use.

“It’ll be everything to everybody,” Leone said.

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