What now looks like a typical one-bedroom Colorado apartment at 7401 Broadway in Adams County looked a lot different over five years ago.
“This was originally a children and family services facility, and we were able to convert it into housing,” said Steve Kunshier, Vice President for Real Estate Development at Maiker Housing Partners.
Caraway Apartments opened to residents back in 2021, several years after the county-owned office space was donated to Maiker Housing Partners in order to be converted into affordable housing units.
“There’s 44 units in this converted office space, and then we have an additional 72 units that we added in what was formally the parking lot,” said Kunshier. “One of the real benefits to utilizing an existing space is you already have a structure to work with. We did have to demolish most of the building and take it down to the concrete structure.”
Of those units, 12 were designated for children who have aged out of the foster care system.