Drive East Belleview Avenue from Quebec Street to Ulster Street right now and you will pass two active construction zones that have almost nothing to do with each other. One is happening on the block anchored by the Kimpton Claret Hotel, near the Belleview light rail platform. The other sits about a mile east, on the site everyone in DTC still calls Marina Square out of habit, even though the sign now reads On The Square. Both are food and retail projects. Both are adding restaurants this year and next. Neither developer is working with the other.
That is the part that gets lost when a new restaurant name shows up in your feed. Denver Tech Center's dining scene did not get one wave of openings. It got two, launched independently, on opposite ends of the same corridor, by two different landlords with two different bets on what DTC residents want to eat. If you live closer to Quebec, your new options look nothing like the new options landing near Ulster. Knowing which node is actually near you is the difference between waiting on a restaurant that's still a year out and walking into one that's already open.
The Same Street, Two Different Builds
| Belleview Station | On The Square (formerly Marina Square) | |
|---|---|---|
| Cross street | Quebec St | Ulster St |
| Developer | Multiple, transit-oriented district | Shea Properties |
| Anchor hospitality | Kimpton Claret Hotel, Apiary Hotel | Eclipse On The Square residences |
| New restaurants | Ambli Global, El Tule Mexican, Egg Harbor Cafe (planned) | Barcelona Wine Bar, The Coastal Service |
| Housing tied to the project | Block F twin towers, 600+ units | 481 residences at Eclipse On The Square |
| Status as of September 2026 | Mostly open, still adding | Under construction, opening late 2026 into early 2027 |
The two nodes are close enough that a resident who splits errands between them might assume it's one continuous build-out. It isn't. Belleview Station has been filling in gradually since the Kimpton Claret opened in 2024. On The Square is a newer, faster-moving redevelopment of a property that sat underused for years.
What's Landing at On The Square
The site's own history explains why this end of Belleview feels different. On The Square is Shea Properties' rebuild of the former Marina Square, a retail center that opened in 1979 and spent decades as one of DTC's older, quieter commercial strips. The first phase includes 481 residences at Eclipse On The Square and roughly 40,000 square feet of retail and dining space, with a 68-foot sculptural piece anchoring a new public plaza. That phase is expected to start opening in late 2026, according to reporting from Naked Denver.
Two restaurant names are attached to this end of the street. Barcelona Wine Bar, the Spanish tapas chain with an existing RiNo location, has signed for a roughly 4,000-square-foot space with a 1,000-square-foot enclosed four-season patio plus a second open-air patio, according to 9News. The chain says the DTC location will bring around 80 jobs and could open as early as 2027. Its CEO, Adam Halberg, told reporters the company wasn't actively hunting for a second Denver spot but that the site clicked once he saw it.
The second name is The Coastal Service, an East Coast style seafood and oyster bar from Shucking Good Hospitality, the group behind Blue Island Oyster Bar & Seafood and Oliver's Italian in nearby Greenwood Village. Founder Sean Huggard built the concept around his years cooking on Nantucket rather than around the group's Long Island oyster farm that anchors Blue Island.
"DTC didn't have an oyster bar, and this gave me the chance to create one shaped by my years as a chef on Nantucket rather than by the farm in New York," Huggard said, according to Mile High CRE.
The Coastal Service is slated for early 2027, the same rough window as Barcelona. Neither has a firm opening date yet, which means the honest answer for a resident checking today is: not open, but under construction.
A Third Pocket of Construction, Away From Belleview Entirely
Belleview Avenue isn't the only street changing shape this year. A few minutes south, off Orchard Road and DTC Boulevard near The Landmark's restaurant and entertainment district, Century Communities, a Greenwood Village based builder, has started site work on the Village at Landmark, a gated enclave of 90 low-maintenance homes on a parcel that sat empty for years. Five floor plans range from 3,280 to 4,550 square feet, with prices starting at $1.7 million, and the project sits about a half mile from Club Greenwood, the 153,000-square-foot athletic and tennis club at Orchard Avenue and Quebec Street, according to the Denver Gazette. It's one of very few new single-family projects along the south I-25 corridor in the past decade, which says something about how little raw land is left to build on inside DTC's boundaries. It has nothing to do with either Belleview Avenue node. It's simply proof that construction crews are busy on three separate fronts in DTC at once, not one.
What's Landing at Belleview Station
The Quebec Street end of the corridor has been filling in for longer and moves at a different pace. The Kimpton Claret Hotel opened in 2024 with Saverina, an Italian-inspired restaurant on the ground floor, and Halo Rooftop Bar on the 19th floor. The Apiary Hotel opened at 4855 S. Quebec St. in early 2026 with two food and drink concepts of its own, a craft cocktail bar and a specialty coffee and grab-and-go cafe.
Street-level dining has been arriving in smaller pieces. Ambli Global, a globally inspired restaurant drawing on Indian, Asian, East African, and Latin American cooking, is already open and running live music Thursday through Saturday. El Tule Mexican, a new restaurant and bar, was reported as preparing to open in the Belleview Station corridor. And Egg Harbor Cafe, a Chicago-based breakfast and brunch chain that opened its first Colorado location in Highlands Ranch in March 2026, has a second location planned for Belleview Station, though no firm opening date had been announced as of a July 2026 South Denver restaurant roundup.
Behind all of this, the district itself keeps growing. A Block F expansion, designed by FitzGerald Associates Architects, will add twin residential towers with more than 600 units, connecting directly to the Belleview light rail station and the retail corridor already in place, following earlier additions like the One Seven apartment tower.
Why This Actually Matters If You Live Here
DTC has carried a specific reputation for years. As the Denver Post characterized it in a 2023 assessment, the district was built with places to eat and shop as afterthoughts, with many of its office buildings dating back to the 1980s and 1990s. That reputation is exactly what makes this year's activity worth tracking rather than shrugging off. Two separate ownership groups, working independently, are both betting that DTC residents want more sit-down dining than the office park era ever gave them. That's a meaningfully different story than "one restaurant opened."
It also means the honest advice for anyone asking "what's new to eat in DTC" depends entirely on which end of Belleview Avenue they mean. If you're closer to Quebec, Ambli Global is open tonight and El Tule and a second Egg Harbor should be added within the next several months. If you're closer to Ulster, the realistic timeline is next year, since Barcelona and The Coastal Service are both targeting early 2027.
The Anchors That Aren't Waiting on Any of This
While three separate construction crews work through DTC, the district's two long-standing entertainment venues haven't paused for any of it. Comedy Works South, tucked into The Landmark at 5345 Landmark Pl, keeps its regular run of local and touring stand-up going regardless of what's rising near Quebec or Ulster. And Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, the 18,000-capacity venue off I-25 and Orchard Road, is closing out its 2026 outdoor season this month, with $uicideboy$ headlining alongside Destroy Lonely and Shakewell on September 25 and an orchestral tribute marking 20 years of World of Warcraft music on September 27, according to the venue's 2026 schedule. After that, the lawn goes quiet until next spring, right around the time the first On The Square retail spaces are expected to start opening.
DTC's dining map is genuinely different this fall than it was even a year ago, and it's going to look different again by early 2027. Paying attention to which end of Belleview Avenue a new name belongs to is the only way to know if it affects your weeknight dinner plans this year or next.
If you're weighing what any of this construction, new housing, or shifting retail mix means for your own property's value in Greenwood Village or the surrounding DTC neighborhoods, Chris Davis and Team DTC Davis track these changes closely. Request a complimentary home valuation to talk through what's happening on your specific block.
