7150 Leetsdale Drive
Dutch Bros Coffee has filed pre-application plans for a 986-square-foot drive-through pad at the northwestern corner of Leetsdale Marketplace, marking the first new tenant deal under the center's new ownership group. Citivest Commercial Investments and MDC Realty Advisors closed on the 10.25-acre property in a joint venture acquisition for $13 million on February 9, 2026 from Legacy Capital Partners.
Leetsdale Marketplace was 59 percent leased to 18 tenants at the time of the February sale. The 1992-built, "L"-shaped center totals 111,669 square feet of gross leasable area across roughly 112,322 square feet of buildings, with 630 parking spaces (5.64 per 1,000 square feet) on 446,487 square feet of land.
The intersection of Leetsdale and Quebec carries roughly 74,000 vehicles per day. Existing anchor Save-A-Lot is joined by pad tenants Taco Bell and Burger King, with inline tenants including Little Caesars Pizza, Tasty Donuts, Sun Wah Chinese, County Fair Garden Center, Arc Thrift Stores, Family Dollar, H&R Block, and O'Reilly Auto Parts.
Dutch Bros' application calls for the chain's "Annihilator A1" prototype, a 986-square-foot building with two drive-through lanes, 17 vehicles of stacking capacity, and a walk-up window. The Grants Pass, Oregon-based chain operates without speaker boxes at order points, instead deploying runners with handheld devices to take orders alongside vehicles in the queue. A 300-square-foot canopy shelters the runner zone. The pad sits on a parcel zoned S-MX-3A (Suburban Mixed-Use), while the broader center carries S-CC-3 (Suburban Commercial Corridor) zoning.
Exterior finishes follow the chain's standard kit of parts. Stucco in a gray palette wraps the base of the building, accented with Eldorado Stone "Cliffstone Banff Springs" veneer at key elevations and Nichiha fiber cement siding in Dutch Bros' signature blue. A vertical tower element anchors the corner of the building and serves as the brand's primary architectural identifier from Leetsdale Drive.
A separate construction project is underway at the east end of the center near Quebec Street, where a Murphy Express convenience store is going vertical on its own pad. That project, filed with the city as 2023PM0000211, was entitled in 2023 under prior owner. Murphy Express is a fuel and c-store concept operated by El Dorado, Arkansas-based Murphy USA, with a Denver footprint that has been steadily expanding alongside grocery-anchored centers.
In its announcement of the acquisition, MDC Realty Advisors described its plan for the center as "aggressive leasing strategy, hands-on property management, focused capital upgrades, further value creation through potential densification of excess site area." Hendrickson, who represented the seller, noted that "leasing efforts underway for two additional junior box traffic generators" were already in motion at closing. The Dutch Bros filing is the first of those new-ownership-driven pad deals to surface in the city's public record.
Dutch Bros has been expanding aggressively across the Denver metro, with locations open or in the pipeline in Northfield, Stapleton, and along the front range corridors. The 7150 Leetsdale site puts the chain at one of the busiest east Denver intersections and within a trade area that has lacked a Dutch Bros presence to date.
A site development plan submittal is expected to follow the pre-application review.