Denver to buy Denver Community Church building for migrant sheltering efforts

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The city has been leasing the building in Athmar Park from the church but now plans to buy it for $4 million.

DENVER, Colorado — For the past year and a half, the City of Denver has been leasing the former Denver Prep Academy building fromThe agreement stemmed from the previous mayoral administration, when former Mayor Michael Hancock's team reached out to nonprofit partners and the faith-based community to see if there were any opportunities for a partnership.

"I think if there is one thing that we do know, it’s that we don’t know everything that is going to happen, and we need to be prepared for these different contingencies," said Jon Ewing, spokesperson for Denver Human Services. "By owning the building, we could immediately look into a few changes that could help them out that we couldn’t necessarily do if we were just leasing it," Ewing said.

 

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