Boutique owner cites crime, costly lease for Union Station closure

The first three months after Karmen Berensten opened by Union Station back in was the best debut ever for her small boutique chain But last week she shuttered A Line Boutique s store at Wewatta St telling BusinessDen the location lost last year It never came back she disclosed of the pre-pandemic atmosphere downtown Berensten bought A Line in when it had a single location in Greenwood Village Along with the store at the base of the Coloradan condominium complex she added locations in Denver s Cherry Creek plus Salt Lake City and Carlsbad California She moved the original store in to the Denver Tech Center s Belleview Station Those four stores are profitable she stated selling designer brands like L agence Zimmermann and Max Mara But with the -square-foot Union Station store deep in the red she commented was the only year in her tenure that A Line s overall sales numbers shrunk Every other store grew but Union Station dragged it down she mentioned Berensten blames vagrancy and theft issues and a lease she now sees as overpriced At a crossroads Downtown Denver is waiting for its rebound This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e evidence if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i