Cherry Creek

It wasn't this past summer, but about three summers ago.

One of my kids had a part-time job with Cherry Creek and the parks area and spent a good portion of, I would say, probably 50% to 60% of their summer pulling weeds out of Cherry Creek Reservoir.

That is a large open space.

Yeah, it is.

better than being doused in

chemicals.

One of my children that was pulling weeds at Cherry Creek Reservoir was thinking they were on the chain gang.

Absolutely.

I did.

I saw this movie and I went to the Tattered Cover bookstore in Denver when it was in the Cherry Creek area and bought everything Norman MacLean.

I could get my fucking hands on that next day.

I did that with...

I was trying to figure out like when we first met.

Cherry Creek Chamber was really kind of how it happened.

And I've just been watching you grow, which I can't wait to get to that part of our conversation.

Katie, you are, what would they share? Veteran? Right? You were a Denver Broncos cheerleader.

Yeah.

So that was actually my first acquisition.

I was able to sell that spa, and we moved to Denver, which is where we started Live Love Lash in Cherry Creek.

Yeah.

I'm so happy that you're here, Mr. Adams.

And, um, we're going to talk all about the cherry creek holiday market and it's got a neat little uh abbreviation cchm where'd that come from

well when you type cherry creek holiday market 400 000 times a year cchm is a little quicker

Tell us a little bit about yourself, married, how long you lived in Colorado, kids, the whole shablammy.

The whole shablammy.

so now it is a little bit more you have to take your time and look for a space and find a space but when you find it you get in there you get in it you pay for two hours yeah um the ultimate goal is is the people that do live down here everything's accessible by bike or one of those little mopeds so the premise is good it is but it did chop a little bit of parking down here so you live and you learn Okay, so the original story.

Blake, we want to welcome you to the podcast first.

What inspired you to create the Cherry Creek Holiday Market and how did the idea come to life?

Very rambunctious bunch.

I believe they came straight from happy hour in Cherry Creek.

We've had to have several of them removed.

Feedback is next.

So I'm highlighting this is direct from the Democratic Party.

They handed them out all over the neighborhoods in the Denver area and in our area, the Cherry Creek area.

We got this.

And it says November 3rd is Election Day.

Yeah.

She lived in Cherry Creek.

Yes.

Very nice.

Now, let's take...

Sunday they wanna take brunch in Cherry Creek.

Monday morning, back on the train to the airport.

Nice trip, right? If you live in Omaha, it'd be a nice little trip.

Now, lay that weekend over a map, a map that Denver's own police records just drew.

They actually drew this map.

It includes the airport, Union Station, the Central Business District, Civic Center, Cherry Creek.

Every one of those stops that I just listed is on the list of the 10 Denver neighborhoods with the most nuisance crime arrests in Denver since January of 2024.

Yeah, just high school for sure.

We, I'll say like presently where we're at kind of in our life, we live in Denver in a cute neighborhood called Cherry Creek.

We have an adorable mixed American or pit bull family.

And like half Aussie puppers.

And

then I just needed something for me.

So I recently just got like a part time job at like a styling boutique here in Cherry Creek.

So that's been really fun to like kind of get out and be around other people because I feel like we definitely tend to have like a little smaller world