The Denverite crew set out camping chairs and a banner on 16th Street last weekend, hoping to grade the success of the city’s $175 million reboot of the pedestrian mall.

We had a great time — and talked to plenty of you Denverite readers, along with lots of other Denver old-timers, transplants and visitors.

Here’s what we heard and saw as thousands of people visited the newly (mostly) reopened mall for the 16th Street Summer Kickoff.

Back, and it feels mostly pretty good

We met lots of long-time Denver residents, some of whom hadn’t visited the mall in years.

Like other children of the ‘80s and ‘90s, Brian Goffinski remembered the mall as a place you could spend a whole day. But concerns about violence, a rise in homelessness and years of construction had driven him away.

“Just befor

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