Together with her longtime staff (which will be sticking around), Megenity spent her last weekend as the Mercury’s owner enjoying performances by Hadgaba, Gora Gora Orkestar and Spicy Pickles. She plans to help out a lot during the transition in the coming weeks, and then less so, transitioning to enjoying the space as a friend and customer. We’re not closing down, not doing any renovations… just continuing business as usual for the foreseeable future.”Ĭommunity members can look to Newman’s work at My Brother’s Bar, which he purchased in 2017, for an idea of how the tech entrepreneur preserves Denver institutions.Īnd Megenity, for the foreseeable future, will still be around the Mercury Cafe. “We want to make sure that Marilyn and the staff know that we’re not changing anything,” Newman assured. And Gayer, too, found social dance nights at the cafe when he first moved to Denver.
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His wife, Kruzick, at 15 took her last driving test with her parents by navigating to and from the Mercury, where she would inevitably be spending free time. Little Man Ice Cream scoops up new location in Englewood And (a few years later), I realized my purpose was community.”
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She bought the property for $157,000 in 1990 after 15 years in business.īack in 1975, when the business first started, “I had a little tiny bit of money, less than $2,000,” Megenity said, “and I thought I knew how to run a restaurant because I had worked in a few… I thought, okay, I’m gonna be an actress and a star in Hollywood someday, and this will be my job for now. Tuesday - a time that Megenity chose for the positioning of the stars, to ensure the Mercury’s bright future - for just over $2 million. “Just knowing, purely emotionally, that it needed to happen.” “Within just minutes of seeing the (real estate) listing, I called Marilyn and said something along the lines: ‘I don’t have a plan, but I just wanted to call and tell you that we can’t lose this place, and we can figure out something to make it work,’” Newman remembers. “For it to rest on the shoulders of one old woman is not a wise bet.”įor Newman, Kruzick and Gayer, the Mercury was wrapped up in their own Denver histories and had to be saved. “I was trying to figure out how to put the Mercury in a good, safe future the year before COVID,” Megenity said. Friday, July 15th 2022 Home Page Close Menu
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