Downtown Denver’s YMCA took a pandemic blow and never quite recovered, like many similar facilities across the nation.
Now, the YMCA of Metropolitan Denver plans to sell the last 40,000 square feet of its downtown facility to the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, giving up ownership of the association’s last portion of the historic building at 16th Avenue and Lincoln Street that it has run since 1906.
The housing nonprofit plans to renovate the 216 studios and single-room occupancy units it already owns at the site and build an unknown number of additional units, turning the entire Y building into an affordable housing complex…