A car drives past the Four Mile District parking garage on June 2, 2026. (BusinessDen)
Plans for Glendale’s entertainment district call for an Alamo Drafthouse movie theater and a host of retailers and restaurants.
So far, however, it’s a parking garage for nowhere — and an ongoing dispute just got deeper.
The Four Mile District project broke ground in mid-2024. But things had soured by March 2025, when Central Street Capital, the project’s Denver-based developer, sued Glendale over an alleged breach of contract.
Despite the dispute, CSC continued to work on the project’s parking garage and other infrastructure, which needed to be put into place before the retail buildings could go up.
“There was hope that the lawsuit would get settled or worked out in some fashion,” said Ryan Wilcox, a Davis Graham attorney representing CSC.
But that construction has ended. The parking garage is virtually complete, and CSC says a five-year ground lease for the development site expired May 25, keeping the firm from doing further infrastructure work.
“They can’t physically be on the site,” Wilcox said of workers.
CBS Denver first reported the halt in construction.
A rendering of Four Mile District. (Courtesy Central Street Capital)
The 10-acre Four Mile District development site is along Virginia Avenue and Clermont Street — south of a Target, west of some office buildings and a few blocks east of the Shotgun Willie’s strip club. Glendale has been trying to turn the area into an entertainment hub for years, but previous developers came and went without starting work.
Glendale and CSC, led by founder Rob Salazar, struck the five-year ground lease in 2021. But Glendale also agreed to sell the land to CSC in two phases after certain construction and investment milestones were met. Central Street was to pay just $1 each time.
“The original intent was that both would be exercised within that five-year period,” Wilcox said.
But the sales haven’t happened. In its lawsuit last year, CSC said it was prepared to close on the purchase of the Phase 1 land in early March 2025, but Glendale recorded a “use covenant” against the property beforehand.
That document placed restrictions on the property. Among other things, it mandated that CSC build at least 90,000 square feet for sales-tax-generating users.
CSC had already agreed to do that — but across the entire 10-acre project, not just the Phase 1 property. The company said the error would impact its ability to get financing, so it couldn’t sign the closing documents.
Its lawsuit was filed less than two weeks later.
Central Street Capital and Glendale officials at the 2024 groundbreaking. (BusinessDen file)
The latest issue with the ground lease is “surprising,” Wilcox said. He said CSC told Glendale for months that the expiration date was nearing, but “really got very little response.”
Glendale City Manager Chuck Line didn’t respond to a request for comment from BusinessDen Tuesday afternoon.
Attorney Jeff Springer of Springer & Steinberg, which is representing Glendale, told CBS that the city considers CSC to have defaulted on the 2021 contract.
“Glendale has attempted in every way possible to facilitate completion of the project,” he said.
So far, however, the courts have determined that CSC has a case. A judge denied Glendale’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit earlier this year.
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