The owner of a deli restaurant and fine-foods market in Denver said the business has reopened Friday, three days after the state’s tax department suddenly seized the property over more than $140,000 in back taxes.
Leven Supply, at 300 E. Alameda Ave., paid what was owed the Colorado Department of Revenue, its marketing director, Becky Fairchild, said.
“We paid the money. It’s not like we didn’t want to pay the money before,” she said.
A Colorado Department of Revenue spokesperson declined to confirm the payment, but the store is now open.
Anthony Lygizos, who opened Leven Supply in early 2025, said he paid his employees on the days the store was closed. Lygizos had said the failure to pay the funds, most of which was in withheld sales taxes, was due to an accounting error from a contractor hired to file state tax payments.
