Sadboy Creamery is opening a storefront near Colfax Avenue, the Denver-based small-batch ice cream business announced Monday.

The nontraditional ice cream maker is known in Denver for releasing new batches of flavors weekly and allowing customers to preorder and pick up pints of their frozen desserts out of their location at 1280 N. Sherman St. But now, Sadboy Creamery is looking toward having an official storefront. 

The new ice cream shop will be located 1502 N. Marion St., Sadboy Creamery announced in an Instagram post. The video announcement showed a pint of ice cream rolling from Capitol Hill to Colfax Avenue as the owner aims to keep the shop near its roots. 

“My number one goal was to stay as close as possible to the place and community where I got my start, and I think this storefront keeps it close while also giving our little business the space it needs to grow,” Sadboy Creamery’s Michael Kimball said in the post.

The business did not share an opening date and Kimball said the storefront was still in the build-out phase. 

Sadboy Creamery was founded by Kimball in 2023, one of several small-batch ice cream businesses that boomed in Denver following the pandemic. It was ranked one of the top four ice cream brands in The Denver Gazette’s Ice Cream Shop Bracket.

Architecture firm moves office from Boulder to downtown Denver

Cooper Carry, an architecture and design firm, announced it will move its Colorado office to downtown Denver later this year. 

Cooper Carry is based in Atlanta and has four offices including Washington, D.C., Charlotte, N.C., and Boulder, after acquiring 505Design in 2023. Cooper Carry announced in a news release last week that it will leave its Boulder office and had signed a new lease for a 5,700-square-foot space at 1900 Lawrence.

The company said it will establish a new regional hub focused on the broader Western region. The new office will allow it to expand from 25 employees to 45 workers to cater to Colorado and nearby states.

“Downtown Denver is in the midst of a meaningful resurgence,” said Kyle Reis, CEO of Cooper Carry,  in a news release. “We see tremendous momentum returning to the urban core, from investment and development activity to the renewed energy across its business and cultural institutions.”

The move will also help be nearer to the development community in Denver, the announcement said. 

Cooper Carry has worked on projects involving the historic Hotel Boulderado in Boulder, Denver Public Schools and Novel RiNo. It also has projects in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Ariz., Las Vegas and California’s Lake Tahoe.

Gart Properties goes out of state

Gart Properties, the century-old family real estate business based in Denver and former owners of Denver Pavilions, has acquired its first property outside of Colorado. 

The company announced it purchased a grocery-anchored retail center in Kansas City, Mo., called Village at Burlington Creek. The location is 10 miles north of downtown Kansas City in a quickly-growing neighborhood near Interstate 29. It includes a Sprouts Farmers Market, Orangetheory Fitness, Club Pilates, Caribou Coffee and Taco Bell.

Last year, the company named Evan Gart as its new president — marking the fourth generation of the family-owned business. Gart told The Denver Gazette in December that the company is pushing to look for opportunities outside of Colorado as the state has been flooded with more competition from out-of-state investors.

“The blessing and the curse of Colorado is it’s an extremely great place to live, and it’s totally on the map now,” he said in December. “So, we find ourselves competing with the most sophisticated, largest institutions on acquisitions … and it’s made it especially challenging and competitive for us to be able to really scale.”

With its first out-of-state purchase completed, Gart said in the announcement the shopping center has “meaningful vacancy” with the opportunity to create more value out of it.

“Our team will be hands-on from day one, managing the property, pursuing strategic leasing, and investing in the physical asset,” he said.

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