South Broadway Just Got Two New Bookstores. October 10 Is When They Join the Route.

"I love that we're in Englewood because I love the South Broadway area," Meg Garcia-Jahrman told the Littleton Independent when her shop opened. "I come here for thrift shopping, vintage shopping, go to bars down here, do all that fun stuff, and eat down here too."

Garcia-Jahrman lives in Morrison. She picked Englewood for her romance bookstore and cafe because of the street around it: thrift racks, vintage shops, bars and food. Two months earlier, a family of siblings opened a used bookstore about a mile and a half south on the same street. Both stores are new to South Broadway in 2026. On Saturday, October 10, the monthly arts event that connects the corridor's galleries, studios and secondhand shops runs alongside the last Old School Cool vintage market on the city's 2026 schedule.

Two Bookstores, Two Very Different Shelves

Good Girl Cafe and Bookstore opened September 13 at 2807 S. Broadway. Construction and permitting problems pushed the opening back from the original July target. The store sells only romance, with shelves sorted by subgenre: LGBTQIA+, Disability, Dark Romance, Contemporary, Local and more. The cafe menu follows the same theme. "The Slap Shot" is a chai latte with espresso, "The Good Girl" is a raspberry white chocolate mocha, "The Golden Retriever" is a honey and cinnamon latte, and "The Black Cat" is a London fog with lavender syrup. Garcia-Jahrman said she read more than 400 books over two years after losing both parents within a year of each other. She also chose the location partly because it has a parking lot with an accessible space.

Merrick Brothers Books sells nearly the opposite of a curated stock. The used bookstore at 3978 S. Broadway held its two-day grand opening July 24 and 25. It's in the former Broadways Tavern sports bar, and the baseball slugger sign is still out front. Aaron Merrick is a former oil-and-gas executive who said he'd rather run a bookstore in retirement than play golf. His brother Will handles behind-the-scenes operations, and his sister Heather runs a section of the store. The shelves cover Colorado authors, mountaineering, vintage fiction, poetry, cookbooks and much more. The gas fireplace from the tavern days is still there for cooler weather.

One store is highly specialized and the other carries almost everything. Both fit a corridor where browsing is the main reason to be out, and on October 10 Merrick Brothers is officially on the route.

The Network That Ties the Street Together

Downtown Englewood holds a Second Saturday every month. Nicole Korbe of EASEL Co Art Space and Hayley Schneider of SeeSaw Gallery lead it, with pop-ups, music, gallery and studio events, classes, demos, and food and drink at participating businesses. The October 10 flyer on EASEL's Second Saturdays page lists 16 businesses and organizations. Most are galleries, studios, tattoo shops and secondhand retailers. Only one brewery is on the list.

The addresses show how tight the route is. EASEL and NKollectiv Gallery share 3485 S. Broadway, on the second floor. Mutiny Comics & Coffee is next door at 3483. Old School Cool Vintage's pop-up lot is at 3501. Modern Ink Tattoo is across the way at 3418, and Alley Cats is around the corner at 11 W. Hampden Ave. Two more stops sit at 901 Englewood Parkway: Carousel Arts in Suite 108 and Los Fantasmas Artist Collective in Unit 112. SeeSaw Gallery anchors the south end at 5 W. Radcliff Ave.

October 10, Hour by Hour

Here is how the day lays out, using the times on the flyer and the city's event pages:

1. 8:45 to 10:15 a.m. Gene of Yoga Celtica leads "Stillness in Motion" yoga at EASEL.
2. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Old School Cool market sells vintage and upcycled goods in the "bubble bank" lot at 3501 S. Broadway. Mutiny Comics & Coffee runs its Second Saturday comic sale over the same hours.
3. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Frame de art at 3065 S. Broadway takes 15 percent off custom framing if you mention Second Saturday. The Peace Place at 4300 S. Broadway holds a shopping event until 5.
4. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Merrick Brothers Books runs a $1 paperback sale. Starting at 11, Alley Cats hosts a graffiti art show and Modern Ink Tattoo offers $60 flash tattoos, both until 7.
5. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Black Cube at 2925 S. Umatilla St., floor 2, is open for public viewing of "A million more things to keep me awake" by Enrique López Llamas.
6. 1 to 3 p.m. "Art in All Its Forms" brings live mural painting, flash tattoos, music and local art to the grassy area at 4361 S. Broadway.
7. 2 to 6 p.m. SeeSaw Gallery hosts a meet-and-greet with Kristina Davies, whose solo show "R.A.W. (Rediscovering the Analog World)" is on view now.
8. 3 to 6 p.m. Denverse Magazine presents "The Art of the Magazine" at EASEL. From 4 to 8, NKollectiv Gallery holds a reception for "Shift," a juried show selected by Liz Graham, with tours of EASEL's open studios.
9. 6 to 9 p.m. Carousel Arts opens "Duets." Los Fantasmas Artist Collective gives a 6 to 8 p.m. tour of "Nican Axcan (Neekan AshCon) Here and Now: Weavings of Past, Present and Future."

Two details matter for planning. Lady Justice Brewing at 3242 S. Acoma St. is open noon to 5 p.m. and then closes for a private wedding party, so last call is at 5. And October 10 is the last Old School Cool date on the city's 2026 Englewood schedule, which started April 11.

An Art Pop-Up on the Lawn of a Bar That Just Closed

Item 6 on that list happens at a changing address. Western Sky Bar & Taproom at 4361 S. Broadway billed its September 26 show as "The LAST Live music at Western Sky." On October 1, Westword's September openings-and-closings roundup listed the bar among the month's closures.

The city's page for "Art in All Its Forms" still places the event on the grass between Western Sky and BMO Bank and lists Western Sky as a sponsor. The other sponsors are the Cultural Arts Commission, Texas Roadhouse and BMO. The flyer describes the event as a pop-up with local musicians, galleries, artists and business owners on South Broadway between Quincy and Radcliff. The bar wrapped up its live music two weeks before the event, and the art pop-up is still scheduled for its lawn.

Where the Art Lives Between Saturdays

The 6 p.m. "Duets" opening is at CitySpark, the vacant-space activation program run by the Englewood Downtown Development Authority. It has turned 11,400 square feet of empty space into homes for artists, entrepreneurs and community organizations. In April 2025, Downtown Colorado, Inc. named it the Best Partnership winner in its statewide awards. For "Duets," each studio artist at Carousel Arts and Studio 108 invited a peer to show work side by side. The pairings are Niza Knoll and Jennifer Maravillas-Bell, Meca'Ayo and Crahmanti Collective, and Janelle W Anderson and Alicia Trujillo. The show runs through December 31, with an artist talk on Saturday, November 7, from 1 to 3 p.m.

EASEL is also fairly new. December 12 marks two years since NKollectiv moved to downtown Englewood from the Santa Fe Art District, and the anniversary falls on that month's Second Saturday. EASEL's Winter Art Market, with work from NKollectiv's 19 artist members and guest artists, runs December 3 through January 24, 2027.

The city's long-range plans include this kind of programming too. A September 29 update on the CityCenter Englewood redevelopment showed conceptual options that include an outdoor performance venue, a beer garden, local retail and expanded parks. No master plan had been chosen as of that update, and Phase 1 design is expected to start in early 2027.

The Rest of the Fall Calendar

After October 10, the city calendar moves to parks and family events:

• October 17, 10 a.m. Ribbon-cutting for the Renew & Recreate improvements at Emerson Park, 2929 S. Emerson St.
• October 24, 1 to 6 p.m. Trunk or Treat Express at Belleview Park Farm & Train, 5001 S. Inca Dr.
• November 7, 10 a.m. Merry Mercantile Market, the same day as the "Duets" artist talk.
• November 14 The next Second Saturday.

Old School Cool's 2026 Englewood schedule doesn't include November 14, so the next Second Saturday will go ahead without the vintage lot at 3501 S. Broadway.

Our team at Nino Pepper Real Estate keeps track of how blocks like South Broadway change one storefront at a time, from a tavern turning into a bookstore to a bar's lawn hosting an art pop-up. If you're wondering what that kind of street-level change means for your own place in Englewood, schedule a free consultation and we'll go through it with you.