In $70M project, restaurant comes out on top

A hungry Denver restaurant chain is unloading some prime real estate but staying in the 17th Avenue bar scene.

Tavern Hospitality Group will build an expanded Tavern Uptown with an eighth-floor, rooftop deck as part of a planned 315-unit apartment complex at 17 Avenue and Pearl Street. The development will fill a 1.5-acre Uptown plot THG had owned for more than 10 years before selling last month…