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Downtown Denver embarked on a significant Your Local Economy in 1992. It was targeted
revitalization effort in the early 1990s—an to bankers and other service providers to
endeavor with which CHFA was involved, educate them on resources available to finance
financing several projects. In 1992, CHFA Colorado’s small businesses. During its first
financed the rehabilitation of four floors in year, eight fully attended sessions were held
the deteriorated Denver Dry Goods Building, throughout the state.
once Colorado’s premier department store. It
reopened in 1993. Energizing Your Local Economy wasn’t just the
name of the training program, but described
Other downtown Denver projects financed the overall determination of CHFA’s Business
by CHFA include Rocky Mountain Chocolate Finance Division in 1992, when $13.5 million
Factory, now a national chain; the Wynkoop in loans were made to small businesses. One
Brewery expansion; The Tattered Cover Book beneficiary was the Lodge at San Isabel, whose
Store; Bradford Publishing; and Mercantile Lofts. owners David and Shirley Harmon bought the
business in 1991. The Lodge was first opened in
energizing your local 1929 and continues to be a summer destination
economy training begins for those who love Colorado’s great outdoors.

To help fill Colorado’s gap in commercial
lending and to support small businesses, CHFA,
with its public and private partners, initiated
a new training program called Energizing

Left: The Denver Dry Goods building, a business customer in Denver
Right: Shirley and David Harmon, business customers in San Isabel