The City of Aurora has been funding a shelter to help the area’s homeless since the city repurposed a shuttered U.S. Army gym in 2015, a gym that was built in the 1940s at the former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center which is now the Anschutz Medical Campus.
It became the Aurora Day Resources Center to help those experiencing homelessness.
The day center provided limited services. It was just a place to stay, shower, do laundry, get a meal and have a temporary space to get out of the heat of the summer and the cold of the winter. It was only a day shelter but that became a 24-hour shelter during severe weather and during the COVID pandemic…