Tivoli sports clothing shop terminates lease

By Reem Al-Omari
The Metropolitan

Pure Energy, an athletic clothing store in the Tivoli, closed Feb. 28, two years before the storeâs lease was up.

The store, which was located on the second floor near the AMC Theatres, signed a six-year lease in 1996.

Barb Weiske, director of the Tivoli  Student Union and Campus Auxiliaries, said Pure Energy was selling good quality products at a good price but was not selling enough merchandise.

Pure Energy tenants gave a 30-day notice that they would vacate the premise. Owners of the store could not be reached for comment.

ãThey werenât making it in our market,ä Weiske said. ãBut they were absolutely good, model tenants.ä

New tenants are already being considered to replace Pure Energy.

Weiske said Tivoli officials are currently discussing a lease with the Federal Credit Union to fill the space the Pure Energy tenants left behind. Weiske said that the space should be filled by July of 1998.

Auraria officials are also looking over a series of student surveys done over the past two years. They showed that students wanted the Tivoli businesses to provide services including a dry cleaner drop-off, CD and cassette store, a shoe repair store and a bicycle store. Weiske said Auraria has already solicited to companies in all the categories suggested by students in the surveys.

The Tivoli had been 100 percent leased for the first time since 1994 last month.