About 200 oversized, heavy-stock catalogs are floating around town, beseeching the beautiful people to join or invest in a very exclusive Denver club dubbed Eleven.
The catalog is filled with pictures and prose of what’s to come: “It was only a matter of time before this burgeoning city required a full-service destination to cater to its discerning tastemakers who currently jet off to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and New York to get the kind (of) world class experiences they can’t get here. Eleven aims to fill the void.”
The club will be at 970 Yuma St., and the bones are already there, at least on the first floor with a bar, kitchen, dining room, billiards room, poker tables, a screening room — and a huge event space. The building once housed armored cars, so it’s filled with safes and even a rifle range. Then it was redone as an ultimate bachelor pad for a bachelor with a car collection. The bachelor didn’t materialize, so now comes Eleven.
The 30-page, full-color catalog assures you that Eleven is the place to be — even though it’s hard to find, facing Interstate 25 and next to a junkyard. If this isn’t in the middle of nowhere, it’s not a long walk. But I toured the joint with a few of the principals Monday — and they say this is what they want, where they want it — a hot spot hidden away in an industrial area, just a quick drive to downtown, sporting venues and Cherry Creek.
The people getting this off the ground include Danny Mostajo of Spectrum Salons; Donald G. Provost of Alberta Development Partners; Colin Ness of various hospitality sites in Aspen; Lawrence Yee from Jing; Oliver Jaderko from the Caribou Club; and public relations consultant Emily Haddon.
“It’s not a question if Denver will support a club,” Mostajo says. “It’s getting the right team together. And we have.”
They hope to assemble as many 60 founding members to cough up $100,000 each to raise the $6 million to build out the project. Then 500 or more members will pay $500 to join and $2,400 a year to enjoy the pleasures of the club. Look for concerts, art shows, fashion shows, dances, networking lunches, dinner parties, a nightclub and a rooftop pool, bar, lounge and cabanas.
One organizer called it a mix between SoHo House in NYC and the Caribou Club in Aspen. I am very bad at predicting the failure or success of anything — so this is your call. The gang hopes to open in time for the holiday season.
Fat.
So you can’t make it to Mardi Gras today in New Orleans? Head to Baker Street, buddy. It’s party time all day at Baker St. Pub & Grill’s four locations with its Fat Tuesday Shopping Cart Parade and Bead Toss and Hurricanes. And if they throw beads at you, you don’t have to show them anything.
City spirit.
Judy Collins, with her picture book/CD “Over the Rainbow,” is at the Tattered Cover Colfax on March 8. . . . Open casting call for Discovery Channel’s “The Colony” at Denver Pavilions is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. . . . At the Colorado Garden & Home Show on Monday, at 2 and 4 p.m., they were offering a “Kids’ Clinic: Plant Your Own Pot.” . . . Sez who: “I would not join any club that would have someone like me for a member.” Groucho Marx
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