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Shopping Denver is the largest shopping city in a 966km (600-mile) radius. Shopping hours vary but stores are generally open 0900-1700/1800, with shopping malls open until 2100 or 2200. Downtown stores may close on Sunday and malls are open daily. Sales tax is 7.5% but cannot be refunded to international visitors. Downtown shopping centres are based around the 16th Street Mall, a 1.6km-long (one mile) pedestrian promenade, lined with pavement cafés. Free buses pass along the promenade every 90 seconds. The Tabor Center, situated at the north end of the mall, has 80 shops and restaurants in a three-storey, glass building. Nearby, Denver Pavilions has 50 shops and restaurants, including the Wolfgang Puck Café, Maggiano’s Little Italy, Virgin Records and Barnes & Noble. By contrast, the beautiful Victorian buildings of Larimer Square, in Denver’s oldest street, house art galleries, exquisite antique jewellery stores, clothing stores, restaurants, cafés and nightclubs. Southeast of Downtown, the Cherry Creek Shopping District has 420 department stores, galleries and boutiques divided between the tree-lined streets of Cherry Creek North and upscale Cherry Creek Shopping Center, with Neiman Marcus, Lord & Taylor, Saks and Tiffany’s. The Tattered Cover Bookstore, the largest independent bookstore in America, is opposite the centre, on First Avenue. Park Meadows, a self-styled ‘retail resort’ with large branches of Nordstrom, Dillard’s and Foleys department stores, is situated south of Denver, off the I-25 in Littleton. Further south on the I-25, Castle Rock has Colorado’s largest factory outlet centre, with more than 130 shops featuring top brand-name goods at reduced prices. The newest additions to the shopping scene are Flatiron Crossing, another mammoth mall located between Denver and Boulder, on the US 36, and Colorado Mills, in the suburb of Lakewood, described as ‘Disneyland meets outlet mall’. South Broadway Antique Row, 400-1900 South Broadway, at the end of the light rail line, has 400 dealers selling everything from furniture to soda fountains. Most stores are open daily. The Mile High Flea Market, 7007 East 88th Avenue, Henderson, has 32 hectares (80 acres) of junk, bargains and curiosities. It is open on weekends and Wednesday 0700-1700 and admission costs US$2 at the weekend and US$1 on Wednesday. Denver is a good place for one to buy sporting goods, with excellent deals on everything from ski gear through camping kit to outdoor clothing. Two of the largest stores are Gart Brothers Sports Castle, Tenth Street and Broadway, with entire floors dedicated to particular sports, and REI, 15th Street and Platte Street, with a rock climbing wall and cold room for testing arctic apparel. |
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