Community-Led · Denver, CO

Welcome to La Fresca

Bienvenidos a La Fresca

La Fresca is a community-led network rooted in Globeville, Elyria, and Swansea. We work in solidarity with the local entrepreneurs who keep our neighborhoods strong, providing resources and training toward a vibrant, healthy, and resilient local economy.

La Fresca es una red comunitaria con raíces en Globeville, Elyria y Swansea. Trabajamos en solidaridad con los emprendedores locales que mantienen fuertes a nuestros barrios, brindando recursos y capacitación hacia una economía local vibrante, sana y resiliente.

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GES Neighborhoods
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Community-Led
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Years of Legacy

Building Economic Power, One Block at a Time

La Fresca is a community-led initiative in Globeville, Elyria, and Swansea, three neighborhoods built by generations of hardworking families and local entrepreneurs. We exist to make sure the value our community creates stays rooted here.

Our work stands on three things: local economic power that keeps every dollar in the community, preventing displacement so the families who built GES get to stay in it, and fresh food access as a health issue.

Construyendo Poder Económico, Cuadra por Cuadra

La Fresca es una iniciativa de la comunidad en Globeville, Elyria y Swansea, tres barrios construidos por generaciones de familias trabajadoras y emprendedores locales. Existimos para asegurar que el valor que crea nuestra comunidad se quede con raíces aquí.

Nuestro trabajo se para sobre tres cosas: el poder económico local que mantiene cada dólar en la comunidad, prevenir el desplazamiento para que las familias que construyeron GES se queden en él, y el acceso a comida fresca como tema de salud.

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La Fresca Network banner at La Fresca Fest in GES
Compras locales une comunidades

Economic Stability Begins at the Corner Store

When dollars circulate locally, neighborhoods get stronger. Local food businesses do not just feed people. They create jobs for folks who live here, mentor young workers, and reinvest in the same streets they grew up on.

La Fresca helps the bakeries, butcher shops, and all small businesses of GES get the resources they need: marketing, sourcing, tax resources and permit resources, funding, and the visibility to stay rooted while the pressure to push them out keeps rising. We provide the tools that small business owners did not know they had access to. Together, that individual effort becomes collective strength.

La Estabilidad Económica Empieza en la Tienda de la Esquina

Cuando el dinero circula localmente, los barrios se fortalecen. Los negocios de comida locales no solo alimentan gente. Crean trabajos para quienes viven aquí, enseñan a los jóvenes, y reinvierten en las mismas calles donde crecieron.

La Fresca ayuda a las panaderías, carnicerías y todos los pequeños negocios de GES a conseguir los recursos que necesitan: marketing, abastecimiento, recursos para taxes y permisos, fondos, y la visibilidad para mantenerse con raíces mientras la presión por sacarlos sigue subiendo. Les damos a los dueños las herramientas a las que no sabían que tenían acceso. Juntos, ese esfuerzo individual se convierte en fuerza colectiva.

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Panaderia Emanuel storefront in Globeville
Panaderia Emanuel, 500 E. 45th Ave

Local is Better

Six reasons we believe in building the neighborhood from within, together.

Builds Local Wealth

Every dollar spent at a local business circulates through GES three more times, paying employees, suppliers, and neighbors. That is wealth that stays instead of leaving.

Supports Real People

Behind every storefront is a family. Your purchase becomes a child's school clothes, a grandmother's medicine, the next opportunity.

Generating Local Jobs

Network businesses hire from the same neighbors they serve. That's not workforce development. That's something that strengthens and connects neighbors.

THANK YOU, GES

La Fresca Fest 2026

Our first neighborhood celebration · June 13, 2026 · Globeville · Elyria · Swansea

On June 13, GES came together to celebrate the bakeries, butcher shops, restaurants, and ice cream shops that keep the neighborhood strong, and the small businesses growing alongside them. An afternoon of food, music, family, and community, and a reminder that GES is still here. Stay connected on our social media and events page to find out when we host more community events like it.

El 13 de junio, GES se reunió para celebrar las panaderías, carnicerías, restaurantes y neverías que mantienen fuerte al barrio, y a los pequeños negocios que crecen junto a ellas. Una tarde de comida, música, familia y comunidad, y un recordatorio de que GES sigue aquí. Mantente conectado en nuestras redes sociales y en la página de eventos para enterarte cuándo tengamos más eventos comunitarios como este.

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JUNE 13 2026