Wooden potato bins. Globes showing countries that no longer exist. Holiday teapots covered in holly. Those are a few of the finds the Littleton Independent listed from the aisles of the Colorado Antique Gallery, and all of them have spent the past two weeks being packed up and moved across town.
The gallery was at 5501 S. Broadway for 34 years. Its last day there was November 2, and it reopens this Saturday, November 14, at 10 a.m. at 3615 W. Bowles Ave. The new building already has two tenants, a butcher shop and a coffeehouse that doubles as a game store. With the gallery moving in, one parking lot on West Bowles now covers three very different errands.
Why a South Broadway fixture ended up on Bowles
Owner Chris Rodriguez has run the gallery since 2012. He told the Littleton Independent that he had been watching the Bowles property for years because he wanted to own his storefront. His landlord offered to buy him out of his lease early, the Bowles building was still for sale, and he took the chance.
Moving a mall with more than 300 vendors was a big job. In the same article, Rodriguez compared it to "wrangling cats" and said the team had worked on it nearly every day since April. He expected about 90% of vendors to make the move. Some of the dealers staying behind are longtime sellers who have been with the gallery since the 1990s.
He gave two practical reasons for the move: more parking and more neighbors. The Saturday lot on Broadway filled up fast, and the businesses around the old building had left over the years.
"We're really happy to have some other neighbors. They'll get us some foot traffic, and we'll do the same for them."
That was Rodriguez speaking to the Littleton Independent. The rest of this post covers who those neighbors are, because they explain why this move matters to anyone who lives near Bowles.
A 1984 big box, split into units
If 3615 W. Bowles looks like an old discount store, that's because it was one. When the property sold in 2017, the Colorado Real Estate Journal described it as a 43,719-square-foot former Walmart, built in 1984 of masonry, on 3.747 acres.
Those numbers account for the parking. A single-store footprint on almost four acres leaves far more pavement than the gallery had on Broadway. They also explain how one building can hold several businesses, since the address is now divided into numbered units.
The gallery's portion is a bit smaller than the Broadway building, but Rodriguez told the Independent that most of the lost space was storage. He plans to turn some of the new building's storage into vendor booths next year. That would add room for 60 more vendors and bring the total to nearly 400. Some of the booths will look familiar to longtime shoppers. Rodriguez reused the wooden dividers that have separated vendor spaces for decades instead of throwing them out.
The neighbors in Unit 1 and Units 5–6
Two businesses already share the address, and each brings a different kind of regular customer.
Littleton Meats, Unit 1. The butcher shop lists 3615 W. Bowles Ave., Unit 1 on its 2026 Thanksgiving pre-order page. Pre-orders close Sunday, November 15, at 8 p.m.
Enchanted Grounds Coffeehouse and Gameporium, Units 5–6. Enchanted Grounds is a coffeehouse and game store in one. It serves espresso, pour-overs, seasonal lattes, tea and smoothies, and sells board games, RPG supplies, Magic: The Gathering products and puzzles, with regular game events. Visit Littleton lists it at the same Bowles address in its January 2026 partner listing. It also has a second location at 8800 S. Colorado Blvd. in Highlands Ranch.
Enchanted Grounds has the longest hours in the building:
| Day | Enchanted Grounds hours |
|---|---|
| Monday–Thursday | 6 a.m.–10 p.m. |
| Friday | 6 a.m.–midnight |
| Saturday | 7 a.m.–midnight |
| Sunday | 7 a.m.–8 p.m. |
On a Saturday, the coffeehouse opens three hours before the gallery's 10 a.m. reopening and stays open until midnight. Picking up a butcher order, browsing antiques and staying for a game night no longer means three trips. It means one parking spot.
Opening weekend falls on the Thanksgiving deadline
The calendar makes this weekend more useful than most. The gallery reopens Saturday, November 14. Littleton Meats stops taking Thanksgiving pre-orders the next evening. Here's how one trip to Bowles could cover all three this weekend:
- Saturday morning at Enchanted Grounds. The coffeehouse opens at 7 a.m., and coffee there is an easy way to start the day before the antique mall opens.
- 10 a.m., gallery doors open. This is the first day in the new building, with most of the Broadway vendors back in their booths.
- Littleton Meats before Sunday at 8 p.m. If the holiday table needs a butcher order, the pre-order window closes the next evening. Ordering through the shop's online page settles it before the weekend ends.
For weekday visits after opening weekend, the gallery's website carries its latest posts from the new store.
Two weeks later, the rest of Littleton joins in
The Independent noted that the new building sits just down the road from Downtown Littleton and only 3.5 miles from the old Broadway store. Rodriguez said, "We wanted to stay in Littleton because we love Littleton. We've always been in Littleton." Being that close to downtown matters at the end of the month, when the holiday shopping calendar picks up.
- Friday, November 27: Candlelight Walk, 5:30–7 p.m. The City of Littleton's Candlelight Walk features a parade, holiday performers, cocoa and cider, photos with Santa, and a drone show.
- Saturday, November 28: Small Business Saturday. Historic Downtown Littleton is organizing Small Business Saturday as a day to shop locally.
- Weekends from November 28 to December 20, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. The Original Dickens Carolers and a Roaming Santa visit downtown for free on November 28–29 and December 5–6, 12–13 and 19–20 while people stroll and shop.
- December 1 through January 11: ViewHouse Holiday Village. The Holiday Village at ViewHouse in Downtown Littleton includes a cookie-decorating night on December 3 and a wreath-making night on December 10.
Having a few hundred antique booths a short drive from Main Street gives the downtown weekends a natural second stop. That's especially true for anyone hunting holiday gifts that no chain store carries, like a holly-covered teapot or a globe with borders that have since changed.
Rodriguez also told the Independent that because he now owns the building, the gallery never has to move again, and he plans to operate it there for as long as he can.
At DeLUX Team, we've lived through plenty of Littleton seasons, and a local business putting down permanent roots is the kind of change we like to track for our neighbors. If you're thinking about how changes like this affect what your own Littleton home is worth, Request a Free Home Consultation and we'll go through it with you over coffee, maybe at Enchanted Grounds.
