These shots are my attempt to get every business which had boarded up their windows or otherwise secured themselves from future (or perhaps past) damage due to civil unrest. My area was from 14th and Larimer to 16th and California walking all sides of each block to get any business which was shuttered or any business which was taking extra steps from their normal commerce.

A picture into the fully emptied Four Seasons hotel first floor. Talking with their security desk, I found the hotel has been closed for renovation with an expected re-opening date of March 2021. The vacating of their first floor was not a security precaution for the election it sounds.

Oh the irony...

These photos are interesting showing the telephone office complex between 15th and 14th streets bounded by Curtis and Champa and the different security choices designed-in or in-use.

The first constructed building from 1910, the Denver Gas & Electric building, is now home to a "carrier hotel" at (910 15th street). We can see its windows getting boarded up.

The second constructed building, built by Mountain States Telephone in 1929 (931 14th St) has barred entrances and is a physically massive building ("virtually impenetrable" (page 12)) but now sits largely uninhabited by people. Although, it houses a very cool museum. The building is now mainly used housing equipment (it seems) likely still mostly for POTS (plain-old telephone service) lines. Here one of its awesome murals is visible in its vestibule.

The next, built South of the 1929 telephone building in 1940 and expanded with a two-story addition in 1958-59 has a very murky history. The building has the address 1425 Champa Street (the AT&T Building) but oddly, even the Denver assessor has this building listed as "Vacant Land" (parcel 0234539010000). This building is quite the brutalist example of architecture and has effectively no street accessible windows, with large steel grating protecting those that do exist. There is steel grating over generators and an entrance to the truck tunnel between the buildings.

The last, built in 1959 and with seven floors added in 1966 (930 15th street) is a construction site at this time so has a chain-link exclusion fence but shares a truck tunnel with the rest of the site and used to be the security office for the truck tunnel with truck ramps to prevent access which now appear defunct. Looking back towards this building from 14th st here.