Pueblo’s first food hall is open for business

Pueblo’s first food hall is finally open.

Fuel & Iron Food Hall, owned by Denver real estate brokers Zach Cytryn and Nathan Stern, debuted five new food hall concepts, a coffee shop, an ice cream parlor and a bar on Friday, April 28, three years after it was first announced.

“We went under contract to buy this in March 2020 and have had so many hurdles come our way,” Cytryn said. “There were nights I would second guess that this day would ever come, so to see the space turn out as beautiful as it did and full of energy, people eating, drinking and having a good time is such an amazing feeling.”

In May 2020, the brokers, who previously worked for Broad Street Realty, bought the 43,500-square-foot former Holmes Hardware building at 400 S. Union Ave. in downtown Pueblo, two hours south of Denver, for $2.7 million.

Cytryn said they did a multi-million dollar renovation on the property to create the 12,00-square-foot, ground-floor Fuel & Iron Food Hall...