The 13,000-square-foot restaurant and music venue sold for $2.3 million below the initial list price. (Courtesy Henry Group Real Estate)
Dr. Jacquelyn Glenn is a bass-slapping surgeon who wants to save a beloved Lowry music venue.
“In my teens and 20s, I would always crush on the drummer and/or the bass player,” she said.
Glenn, 58, is both a classically trained pianist and vocalist and a U.S. Army veteran who spent her career in operating rooms from Honduras to Germany. She bought the former Tavern Lowry and Soiled Dove building at 7401 E. First Ave. in Denver for $3.5 million earlier this month from former operator Tavern Hospitality.
The restaurant and venue opened in 2006 and closed in 2024. Glenn, a self-described adrenaline junkie, wants to bring back the music after recently stepping away from performing emergency surgeries and working nights at the Sky Ridge hospital in Lone Tree.
“I’ve just changed my adrenaline to the business adrenaline, rather than the whole stick my hand [in] and fix your heart thing,” she said.
Jacquelyn Glenn playing the bass. (Provided photo)
The plan is to chop up the roughly 13,000-square-foot building into three parts, with a $1 million to $1.5 million build-out to follow.
Up top, where the Tavern restaurant once operated, will largely become a classroom and recording studio for Rock The Stages, a music school for kids and adults in Centennial and Highlands Ranch that Glenn, her kids and 500 others attend. The school will lease the space with hopes to add classes in theater and dance.
The remaining upstairs portion she hopes will be leased out to a cafe operator; an existing cabaret license means alcoholic beverages can be served.
Downstairs, the former 250-person Soiled Dove venue will be restored. Glenn, who performed there, will keep the name. The music school will use it to teach students how to perform under the bright lights and it will be available for booking.
“Every local band in Denver knows the Dove. They’ve played there or wanted to play there. We’ve all played there. We like it. The acoustics are good. The environment is good. I wanted to resurrect that part of it,” she said.
The property was listed for $5.8 million shortly after its closure in connection with a settlement ending litigation between Tavern co-owners Frank Schultz and his mother, Terry Papay.
The pair have closed a handful of other real estate deals. A couple of industrial properties sold quickly. A corner building in LoHi, which had been in foreclosure, found a buyer in January. A trio of LoDo office/warehouse properties and Tavern DTC and Littleton are still on the market.
Some things didn’t pan out, notably the potential conversion of the DTC location into a Cherry Cricket. And Tavern Uptown entered foreclosure over the summer after it defaulted on a $5.4 million loan from former Broncos quarterback John Elway.
A younger Frank Schultz, left, and Terry Papay at the Soiled Dove. (Denver Post file photo)
Pat Henry, Boston Weir and Amanda Tompkins of Henry Group Real Estate have been marketing the properties for sale. Tavern Lowry and Soiled Dove got a unique response.
“I probably had 30 phone calls from neighbors throughout the year and a half saying, ‘Hey, can you get something? We miss our music,’” Henry said.
“The market was soft, and large restaurant spaces like this are not trading where they once were,” he added. “And then on top of it, this had a roughly 10,000-square-foot stage. They did concerts downstairs for years. Most restaurant operators went into the space and said, ‘What am I supposed to do with this?’”
Glenn, who was building up a wound care practice after she stopped working nights at the hospital, said the price tag for Tavern Lowry was “way too high” at first. But a couple factors led to a deal.
“I started having money that I actually needed to play with, because I don’t want to pay taxes on it. I needed to turn around and invest. The price came down, and so that all kind of dovetailed together,” she said.
To buy it, she phoned Jason Glowacki of Redfin, the real estate agent who helped her buy a house recently. He convinced his brokerage to take on the rare commercial deal and will help Glenn manage the building, which she described as “completely vandalized.”
By next summer, though, she hopes it will be bumping again.
“We performed at the Dove, and actually one of our last performances was right before the Dove kind of went under,” Glenn said. “It’s always been one of our favorite venues.”
The 13,000-square-foot restaurant and music venue sold for $2.3 million below the initial list price. (Courtesy Henry Group Real Estate)
Dr. Jacquelyn Glenn is a bass-slapping surgeon who wants to save a beloved Lowry music venue.
“In my teens and 20s, I would always crush on the drummer and/or the bass player,” she said.
Glenn, 58, is both a classically trained pianist and vocalist and a U.S. Army veteran who spent her career in operating rooms from Honduras to Germany. She bought the former Tavern Lowry and Soiled Dove building at 7401 E. First Ave. in Denver for $3.5 million earlier this month from former operator Tavern Hospitality.
The restaurant and venue opened in 2006 and closed in 2024. Glenn, a self-described adrenaline junkie, wants to bring back the music after recently stepping away from performing emergency surgeries and working nights at the Sky Ridge hospital in Lone Tree.
“I’ve just changed my adrenaline to the business adrenaline, rather than the whole stick my hand [in] and fix your heart thing,” she said.
Jacquelyn Glenn playing the bass. (Provided photo)
The plan is to chop up the roughly 13,000-square-foot building into three parts, with a $1 million to $1.5 million build-out to follow.
Up top, where the Tavern restaurant once operated, will largely become a classroom and recording studio for Rock The Stages, a music school for kids and adults in Centennial and Highlands Ranch that Glenn, her kids and 500 others attend. The school will lease the space with hopes to add classes in theater and dance.
The remaining upstairs portion she hopes will be leased out to a cafe operator; an existing cabaret license means alcoholic beverages can be served.
Downstairs, the former 250-person Soiled Dove venue will be restored. Glenn, who performed there, will keep the name. The music school will use it to teach students how to perform under the bright lights and it will be available for booking.
“Every local band in Denver knows the Dove. They’ve played there or wanted to play there. We’ve all played there. We like it. The acoustics are good. The environment is good. I wanted to resurrect that part of it,” she said.
The property was listed for $5.8 million shortly after its closure in connection with a settlement ending litigation between Tavern co-owners Frank Schultz and his mother, Terry Papay.
The pair have closed a handful of other real estate deals. A couple of industrial properties sold quickly. A corner building in LoHi, which had been in foreclosure, found a buyer in January. A trio of LoDo office/warehouse properties and Tavern DTC and Littleton are still on the market.
Some things didn’t pan out, notably the potential conversion of the DTC location into a Cherry Cricket. And Tavern Uptown entered foreclosure over the summer after it defaulted on a $5.4 million loan from former Broncos quarterback John Elway.
A younger Frank Schultz, left, and Terry Papay at the Soiled Dove. (Denver Post file photo)
Pat Henry, Boston Weir and Amanda Tompkins of Henry Group Real Estate have been marketing the properties for sale. Tavern Lowry and Soiled Dove got a unique response.
“I probably had 30 phone calls from neighbors throughout the year and a half saying, ‘Hey, can you get something? We miss our music,’” Henry said.
“The market was soft, and large restaurant spaces like this are not trading where they once were,” he added. “And then on top of it, this had a roughly 10,000-square-foot stage. They did concerts downstairs for years. Most restaurant operators went into the space and said, ‘What am I supposed to do with this?’”
Glenn, who was building up a wound care practice after she stopped working nights at the hospital, said the price tag for Tavern Lowry was “way too high” at first. But a couple factors led to a deal.
“I started having money that I actually needed to play with, because I don’t want to pay taxes on it. I needed to turn around and invest. The price came down, and so that all kind of dovetailed together,” she said.
To buy it, she phoned Jason Glowacki of Redfin, the real estate agent who helped her buy a house recently. He convinced his brokerage to take on the rare commercial deal and will help Glenn manage the building, which she described as “completely vandalized.”
By next summer, though, she hopes it will be bumping again.
“We performed at the Dove, and actually one of our last performances was right before the Dove kind of went under,” Glenn said. “It’s always been one of our favorite venues.”
