One of Denver’s largest and most storied homeless shelters could close its doors.
Denver’s Department of Housing Stability (HOST) is considering shuttering Crossroads, the 300-bed shelter in Five Points, in the next year, department head Cole Chandler confirmed in a city council committee meeting.
The possibility of the closure came up in conversations about the city giving Urban Alchemy a one-year contract to run the shelter.
Similar contracts, including a separate arrangement with Urban Alchemy to run the even larger 48th Avenue Men’s Shelter, run for three years…