16th Street Mall

We went to 16th Street Mall on Saturday intending to do some shopping. Denver's 16th Street Mall is supposed to be the shopping street of Denver, the equivalent of Orchard Road in Singapore or Pitt Street Mall in Sydney. Unfortunately, it was a very disappointing shopping experience. We were there for about 2 hours - from 11am to about 1pm, and the street was very quiet. There were not many shoppers around. Not what you would expect of a shopping street, especially on a Saturday.

16th Street is quite a long street (there's a free bus that runs along it), but there's seriously a lack of good retail outlets there. We wanted to pick up some infant items for DD and my MAC lip conditioner, but there wasn't even a departmental store which sold these items! The closest to a decent departmental store was TJ Maxx (much like Robinsons in Singapore), but they were having some sort of sale. The store was tiny, cluttered with items, and just generally messy.

We walked up the entire length of 16th Street Mall, down again, stopped at MacDonald's for lunch, and decided to head off home.

So if anyone's coming to Denver, forget about 16th Street Mall. THE place to shop in Denver is at Cherry Creek Shopping Mall, an upmarket shopping centre just 5 minutes drive from our place. That's where we'll be this weekend!