#Tetra lounge install#
#Tetra lounge license#

Owner Dewayne Benjamin, who applied for the hospitality license, said he’s ready to reopen once he gets approved by the city. Tetra operated as a private club for the last four years in a nearly 100-year-old building in RiNo, but closed temporarily when Denver overhauled its cannabis laws last spring. “How do you carve out something that’s unique and how do you sustain that? You sustain that by delivering a high experience that’s satisfying and meets your guests’ expectations, exceeding those expectations.”Ĭhiari said he hopes to open the cannabis lounge by the end of the year or in early 2023. “It is a crowded, competitive space right now hospitality is a crowded, competitive space,” he said. “I have my very clear personal recollection of what that war on drugs looked like coming back at a family.”Īlthough recreational cannabis became legal in Colorado in 2016, Chiari said he thinks the market for cannabis businesses is still “hot.” “I do have a family member who did unfortunately have a run-in with the war on drugs,” Chiari said.

#Tetra lounge license#

Guests wouldn’t be able to smoke in their rooms, and cannabis won’t be sold on-site.Ĭhiari said he doesn’t plan on the lounge being a “huge moneymaker,” but rather a complement to the rest of the inn’s offerings.ĭenver through 2027 is only accepting marijuana hospitality license applications from people who have lived in a poor part of the city for 15 years or more, they or their family members have been convicted of a marijuana-related crime before it was legal in Denver, or their income does not exceed 50 percent of the median income. But it won’t be like a cannabis lounge where people can just walk in off the street. To be admitted into the lounge, guests of the hotel will need to buy a day pass, and Chiari said he would offer annual memberships.

#Tetra lounge install#

Nightly rates range from $195 to $325, depending on the time of year.Ĭhiari said he plans to install new ventilation systems in the carriage house, and block off access from the lounge to the kitchen on the first floor. The hotel has nine rooms, although Chiari hopes to increase that to 11.