“Being right in front of Casa Bonita — they didn’t want me there,” he said of his brightly painted and multicolored, retrofitted shipping container.
“What really ticked me off is I extended my lease and they gave me permission to sell hot dogs, nachos and other food products,” Thwaites said of Broad Street Realty. “I bought a new fridge, I bought hot dog equipment, I bought a sink and a condiment dispenser. Then all of a sudden, they told me I had to move out.”
Broad Street Realty, based in Bethesda, Md., with an office in LoDo, didn’t return multiple requests by phone and email for comment. A Denver-based attorney for the company, Uriel Martinez with Senn Visciano Canges P.C., declined to comment when reached by The Denver Post. She also wrote that the shipping container Thwaites was using isn’t allowed by Lakewood at that location, even though it had sat in the parking lot for the better part of a decade. After Broad Street Realty filed a complaint with the city on April 20 about Thwaites’ shipping container, a code enforcement officer issued Thwaites a notice of violation five days later.