Moving in Five Points, from Welton Street to the RiNo Warehouses

Five Points takes its name from a streetcar stop. By 1881, locals were using it for the spot where Welton Street, 27th Street, Washington Street, and 26th Avenue meet, the place where the downtown street grid runs into the grid of the city’s first suburbs. Through the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, Welton Street was lined with jazz clubs, and the Rossonian Hotel made the neighborhood known as the Harlem of the West. In 2002 the city designated the Welton Street corridor between 24th and 30th Streets a historic district, now called the Five Points Historic Cultural District. A few blocks away, Curtis Park still has the Victorian homes that made it one of the city’s early streetcar suburbs.

RiNo grew out of the industrial side of Five Points. Artists working in its warehouses formed the River North Art District in 2005, and the district now covers the area east of I-25 and south of I-70 down to Park Avenue West, with Brighton Boulevard on the west side and Larimer, Walnut, and Blake Streets on the east, served by the 38th and Blake light rail station. For a moving crew, that mix means three very different jobs in one neighborhood: warehouse lofts with shared freight elevators, newer apartment buildings with reservation systems, and Victorians with steep stairs and alley access. We handle all three for Five Points and RiNo residents, and for neighbors in the Central Business District and Cole.

What Five Points & RiNo Customers Are Saying About Our Movers

“RiNo’s warehouse conversions all have their own quirks, one building’s freight elevator only runs until 5pm, another only has a single loading dock shared by three businesses. We call ahead every time so nothing holds up move day.” — Ron, Owner of Abe Lincoln Movers