New three-story restaurant and bar with rooftop views opening on South Broadway

BurnDown is South Broadway’s newest watering hole.

Pack your friends into the three-story restaurant and bar with rooftop views of downtown and the Front Range at 476 S. Broadway, set to open on May 20. The 24,000-square-foot building, built in the 1940s, was previously home to LeGrue’s, a flower shop and year-round Christmas store that operated for 50 years.

BurnDown is a reference to a fire in 1978 that destroyed much of the building’s interior, leaving a hole in the center that has been incorporated into the design as a three-story atrium. Photos of the fire taken by a neighbor hang on the restaurant’s wall to remind visitors of its history.

“We figured we might as well embrace the past,” co-owner Reed Sparks said. “Normally, when things burn down, they fall down. So, to have a burned down building that’s still standing, we wanted to try to bring it bac...