Six months after shuttering Bistro LeRoux, a French fine-dining restaurant on the 16th Street Mall, restaurateur Lon Symensma has closed his YumCha Dumpling & Noodle Bar next door.

City leaders say investments will bring people downtown, but a fatal stabbing spree adds to the challenges that remain.

The family of 34-year-old Nick Burkett started a memorial of candles, flowers and pictures near 16th Street and Wazee Street in downtown Denver on Friday, just days after his death. He and 71-year-old Celinda Levno were killed in two of the four random stabbings along the 16th Street Mall last weekend.