Pretty basic shopping complex. Always police around but they just patrol Lakeside. You have a Les Schwab tires, Walmart, Molly's, Planet Fitness, Petco, Goodwill, Dominos, Gas station, Great Clips barbershop, and a few other rotating businesses. Apart from the amusement park on the other side of the lake Lakeside is fairly small. A few other restaurants and then the stores here at Lakeside center. Molly's is great if you've never been. Kind of like Argonaut or Apple Jacks if you know those local stores. Lots of parking all around even when the stores get busy. Just make sure you go the posted speed limit. Police hanging around as mentioned before and they will write your a ticket. Not much to do so they hang around this parking lot bored. read more

Lakeside Center - Offerings. - Shopping Centers Near Me - Denver, Colorado

Lakeside Center used to be a mall which at one point and time according to an 'ex' of mine was a cool place to go to. By the time I moved to Arvada that time has long since passed by. I don't even know if there were shops where the main mall area was to tell you the truth. If there was they were useless stores and did not make an impression on me. The only store that I do remember there was a Target store. It was so old it was best called a Targhetto store. Very small, about the same amount of merchandise as compared to the other Targets only you were reminded where you were and it totally sucked! A couple of weeks ago I was in this area and most if not all of Lakeside Center looked like it was getting torn down. Goodbye to an eyesore! How about putting a nice open space park here now since they finally gave this place the axe, which it needed a long time ago! read more

Well . . . the five star version only exists in the album of my memory. In the 1960s and 1970's, this was a great place to go. It had a "Woolworth's" and a "Denver Dry" and "Fashion Bar" and a candy stand that sold the best caramel corn you could imagine. But all was lost to the ravages of time and we must move forward . . . (sigh.) read more

In August of '77, I was transferred out to Denver with the old Burstein-Applebee (BA). I was to build new shop facilities in the lower level of Lakeside, which we did. At that time, the mall was bustling and always full of happy people and kids. A Cafeteria, Mexican restaurant, and many very nice men's and women's shops with high end merchandise, including The Denver, Macy's, Monkey Wards, Fashion Bar, Hatch's Books & cards, Woolworth;s, Burstein-Applebee, Gart Brothers sporting goods, a pet store, and a King Sooper's grocery. About 1981 or so, as the population "drifted" East & South, the mall began to lose it's shine, with more and more storefronts closing, and NOT being replaced, or with low-end FBN (fly by night) stores taking their places. The TARGET was an "anchor" store for a very long time, with the Avanza (Mexican) supermarket on the other end, holding the mall's nose above the higher-and-higher water. One day, I drove by and noticed that ALL was closed and shuttered - it seemed very strange to see nothing but blowing leaves and paper scraps outside; the mall's interior darkened and forboding. Finally, it got torn down and lay fallow for what seemed a VERY LONG time. Now, the WalMart occupies the NW section of the land, with the Lakeside PD & city offices + a dental office in the SE. I often wonder what the workmen thought when they discovered a pair of antennas on the roof - 1 for CB, the other a VHF ground plane for the 2 meter ham band... we built and installed them above the BA shop, with cables running down to the basement - then again, maybe they didn't care. Tom D. - Denver Svc Mgr - Burstein-Applebee (closed in 1980) read more