Several businesses in downtown Colorado Springs have closed this year, citing various factors from the rising cost of business to residual challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic, while several others have opened and expanded.

China Town Restaurant, at 326 S. Nevada Ave., was the latest to say it will close. The longtime favorite restaurant for Chinese food will shutter its doors at the end of December.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of other downtown business closures in 2024, as reported by The Gazette, with some locations filled by new ventures and several other previously reported business openings — including Night Ramen, along with many openings:

CLOSINGS

• 3E’s Comedy Club closed at 1 S. Nevada Ave. on Feb. 1. The club opened downtown in September 2020. Owner Eric Phillips previously said he planned to reopen 3E’s at Victory Ridge, in the booming InterQuest area in northern Colorado Springs. The nonprofit Colorado Springs Community Cultural Collective moved into the club’s former South Nevada Avenue location, making it the new home for its workforce programs, rebranded as Opus Creative Industries.

• On Feb. 11, Kansas City, Mo.-based franchisee La Tavola Hospitality Group closed its Marcos Pizza location at 12 S. Tejon Street. Gaia Masala, an American fast food-Indian-Mediterranean fusion chain restaurant based in Boulder, opened in the pizza shop’s former location this summer.

• Prohibition-era themed bar Brooklyn’s on Boulder Street, which opened in 2016, closed its location at 110 E. Boulder St. in early March. A new British-style teamroom, Toodles Tea Room, opened here in the fall.

• Lemon Lodge Ski Bar, an entertainment venue with an indoor ski and snowboard simulator that opened in the summer of 2023, closed on May 1 at 111 E. Pikes Peak Ave.

• The Perk Downtown Coffee & Tea House, a longtime favorite that opened at 14 S. Tejon St. in May 1998, shuttered its doors on May 26.

• The Well, a downtown Colorado Springs food hall whose mission was to help up-and-coming restaurateurs establish a foothold in the local food scene, closed its doors at 315 E. Pikes Peak Ave. in mid-June.

•  A brewery and restaurant at the Carter Payne Chapel, 320 S. Weber St., closed to the public Sept. 2. It rebranded as an event center, focused on catered events for those renting the space, but hosts some public celebrations and special beer and food pairing dinners. The chapel’s anchor brewery, Local Relic Artisan Ales, remains under the new concept.

• The Wild Goose Meeting House, which opened in November 2013 and was co-owned by current Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade, permanently closed Sept. 14. It was located at 401 N. Tejon St.

• Craft beer and small bites startup Bell Brothers Brewing closed its doors at 114 N. Tejon St. on Sept. 29. It first opened on New Year’s Eve in 2021.

OPENINGS

• Cinchona Coffee, which serves coffees from across the globe to its customers in Colorado Springs, opened this year at 130 E. Pikes Peak Ave.

• Urban Animal Beer Co., which opened its south-side location in Colorado Springs in September 2023, expanded to downtown in 2024. Its newest location is at 521 S. Tejon St.

• Live music venue Lulu’s Downtown opened at 32 S. Tejon St. this year, on the building’s second floor in the space formerly occupied by Studio 32 Discotheque. Lulu’s relocated from Manitou Springs.

• Experimental arts space Boucher art + stage opened in early February at 328 N. Nevada Ave.

• Hank’s K9 Social Club, a full-service dog daycare, boarding, grooming and training facility opened at 815 S. Sierra Madre Street, near Weidner Field, in February.

• Dad’s Donuts opened in March at 29 E. Moreno St., known for its 109-layer “cronut,” a blend of a donut and croissant. The confections take four days to make.

• The Shoppe, a local collaborative that is home to the Local Honey Co., Idyll Manor and KaMP Goods, opened its storefront in April in the Meanwhile Block, at 425 S. Sierra Madre St. The Shoppe moved after the boutique lost its previous downtown storefront in the Bijou Street fire in December 2023.

• Medical spa chain Facial Aesthetics opened a downtown Colorado Springs location at 2 N. Nevada Ave., Suite 100, in early April.

• Also at 32 S. Tejon Street, Illegal Pete’s, a fast-casual Denver-area chain known for its Mexican fare, opened in late April.

• Kochi Boba & Mochi opened at 27 E. Platte Ave. April 19, serving milk tea, bubble tea, coffee shop staples and Vietnamese food favorites like pho and bahn mi.

• The Blk Mgk (Black Magic) artisanal coffee shop opened in April inside the lobby of The Mining Exchange hotel, which recently went through a major remodel, 8 S. Nevada Ave.

• Upscale pool hall Crooked Cue opened in May at 112 N. Tejon St., in the space once leased by the Tattered Cover bookstore.

• Dueling piano bar Louie Louie’s opened May 24 at 522 S. Tejon St.

• In June, Haole Hawaiian Grindz moved from the CO.A.T.I. food hall in the 500 block of South Tejon Street to 26 E. Kiowa St., in a space formerly occupied by T-Byrds Tacos & Tequila (which moved in January to nearby 218 N. Tejon St.). Haole announced on its social media accounts Oct. 30 that the restaurant was “temporarily closing” its doors on Kiowa “to undergo a management restructure” and “refine (its) operations.” It is unclear when or if the restaurant will reopen.

• Azteca Urbano Mexican Grill opened in mid-June at 24 E. Kiowa St., in the location formerly occupied by The Dirty Byrd.

• Evergreen Restaurant, touting European-style cuisine, opened in July on the first floor of the Spenser Center at Colorado College, 830 N. Tejon St., Suite 110.

• Exponential Impact, a technology accelerator that works with defense and space technology companies, opened Exponential Impact Downtown this August at Weidner Field.

• Monica’s Taco Shop, the Colorado Springs-based Mexican food chain opened its fourth location in September, at 331 S. Nevada Ave., on downtown’s south edge.

• Gourmet ramen restaurant Night Ramen opened Sept. 20 at 324 E. Pikes Peak Ave., on downtown’s east edge.

• Brakeman’s Burgers reopened this year at 10 S. Sierra Madre St., in downtown’s Historic Depot, after the smashed burger bar underwent a significant reconstruction.

• Superior Barbershop opened its third location this fall, at 334 N. Nevada Ave.

• Owambe African Restaurant & Lounge opened this fall at 10 N. Sierra Madre Street. It is the first Nigerian restaurant in Colorado Springs.