Can we save Lower Downtown before it’s too late?

If you passed by 20th and Market Street after a ballgame, there is a good chance you heard music from El Chapultepec spilling onto the sidewalks. The revered jazz venue opened in 1933—the day after Prohibition—and saw performers like Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett take to the stage.

2020 did a number on the ‘Pec. It is permanently closing.

It is time to relish our pregame and postgame staples before we lose another one. We can’t relish them right now like we normally would on game days, of course—but how can we help them make it to another Opening Day with fans?

The coveted atmosphere at Coors Field is only furthered by the timeless surroundings of Lower Downtown in which the ballpark calls…