Denver’s micro-businesses hope you’ll come pay them a visit

Even in the earliest days of this pandemic, Erika Righter worried that her reliable customer base might fundamentally change its shopping habits. In April of 2020, she organized a crowdfunding campaign to pay artists to decorate the boarded-up windows around her South Broadway gift shop, Hope Tank, with messages that might remind Denverites that the businesses were still there and would need their help.