The historic Ice House is hot to get the right tenant for its basement space. If not an EDM club, what?
On May 2, just before a planned City of Denver licensing hearing, two entrepreneurs who had hoped to establish an electronic dance music club in the basement of the IceHouse pulled their application.
Simonds and Trahan are still eager to open their Kulture Music Hall, but in a more welcoming space. And that leaves the IceHouse in need of a basement tenant.The IceHouse was constructed in 1903 as the headquarters for the Littleton Creamery, replacing its offices at 18th and Market streets. The company, founded in 1886 by J.D. Hill and I.S. Morse, was a wholesale vendor of butter, cheese and cream, as well as dairy apparatus and supplies, according to a. It also had a cheese factory in Sedalia.
"At the time of its final addition, it was the largest cold storage facility in the Rocky Mountain region, with 1.2 million cubic feet of cold storage," reads the historic register application. Beatrice Creamery continued using the building as a cold-storage facility until 1979.In the 1980s, Dana Crawford, the developer of Larimer Square, partnered on a project to renovate the building for $5 million and turn it into condos, as well as commercial space.