Presidents Hall, front, Founders Hall, left, and two former dormitory buildings on the Mosaic Community Campus in Denver on April 9, 2024. Several former dormitories are being renovated into about 150 units of affordable housing. In South Park Hill, a former college campus is gradually being transformed — and what’s taking shape doesn’t look like a typical redevelopment project in Denver.
Volunteer Eileen Layden from Partners in Literacy, left, helps Cheoni Ngalame, 9, read a book at St. Elizabeth’s School on the Mosaic Community Campus in Denver on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. The Mosaic plan in East Denver fits with the Urban Land Conservancy’s larger mission. It buys land and buildings throughout metro Denver, strategically focusing on properties near transit stations and corridors. Once it makes an acquisition, the organization works with its new neighbors to figure out their greatest need — whether that’s building affordable housing or opening schools or Boys and Girls Clubs, Miripol said.
Archway Communities bought two dorm buildings from the ULC in late 2021, then another two in late 2022 — “at a significant discount,” Miripol said. After Archway finishes renovations, it plans to lease more than 150 apartments later this year at rents affordable to lower-income residents. “Now that this has been open … a lot of people who have never been able to set foot on this campus, in these beautiful kitchens and buildings, are getting a chance to enjoy what’s already here,” he said.
An added bonus: Their workers will be able to “live and work on the same campus,” he said. “We’re going to bring some affordable housing to people that might not have the ability to live in Denver.”, which leaves residents with limited access to healthy, low-cost food. Kitchen Network plans to be part of the solution by offering lunchtime options to its neighbors. The restaurants ChoLon Modern Asian and D Bar are also setting up for-profit commissaries, de la Torre said.
“This campus should be a welcoming place for everybody to the east, west, north and south of us,” he said. “This is going to have a diverse crowd of people now.”Cody Baker resides on a side street on the south side of campus, and often walks his dog through the area. “There is opportunity for growth, I think, with the administration and the folks who are really leading this project to ensure that they are bringing community alongside them as they are planning and executing,” she said.
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