Another surface parking lot is being eradicated in Downtown’s Arapahoe Square district; this time, thanks to the Salvation Army.
The Salvation Army’s Harbor Light Center project is a 30,000 square-foot expansion of the Salvation Army building next door at Broadway and Champa. The new facility at 21st and Champa will provide sorely needed room for housing men who are undergoing substance abuse treatment. For more information, please read this article (PDF) from the Denver Post. The project broke ground in May.
Here’s the project location on a GoogleEarth aerial:
The project architect is Denver-based Studio Completiva. Here are two renderings from the architect’s website:
Finally, here’s a street-level shot I took last weekend, showing that construction is now underway:
Another parking lot in Arapahoe Square bites the dust and, in the process, a vital community service is expanded. Good news all around!
Oh man this area desperately needs some attentions. I rejoice any time a project gets proposed over there. I just hope it doesn’t attract the general riff raff that Denver rescue mission does.
Pretty cool… glad to see resources like this in the community. On another note; I see the lot being torn up next to The British Bulldog – does anyone know what that might be?
I don’t see any lot next to British Bulldog being torn up. Are you talking about the lot on Stout midblock between Park Avenue and 22nd? There were two buildings recently torn down at this location. One of them was a very old and decrepit turn of the century home that was left to rot by the property owners. The other building was a combo home and retail location with frontage on Stout.
Wow, this is really neat to see an infill project like this! With prices in the city going up and up, I’ve been concerned about the viability of community services in the downtown area. Glad to see places like this aren’t getting completely kicked out, and are instead expanding. 🙂
Why the concern? “Community services” are entrenched in this part of town to the point where neither residential nor commercial development will have any appreciable future. The homes around St. Francis have to deal with regular vandalism by the “community.” Businesses near the Rescue Mission can’t get the “community” to move from their sidewalks–iyou must go out for a stroll down either Park Avenue or Lawrence St. And, the sidewalk in front of the Coalition’s medical clinic on Broadway is a river of sputum and cigarette butts every morning. The indigent need assistance, but the present arrangement has condemned an entire area of downtown to linger. Nothing but “community services” is viable in that entire 5×5 block area.