Site Assessment & Clean Up

The Phillips Center is owned and operated by the Urban Land Conservancy, a local non-profit group that supports affordable housing redevelopment projects and community non-profit organizations. Currently, the Phillips Center provides low cost or no cost office space to community-based non-profits including a childcare center, an at-risk youth outdoors program, and a job placement and training organization. The Central Corridor Extension of RTD’s FasTracks Program plans for a lightrail station at 35^th Avenue and Downing, approximately four blocks from the center. Future plans for the building include complete redevelopment for affordable housing, sustainable community employment centers, and non-profit organization office space. The property is zoned RMU20 which provides redevelopment opportunities that include residential mixed uses.

Under the EPA Brownfields Environmental Assessment grant, a lead-based paint (LBP) and an asbestos-containing building material (ACBM) survey, and a mold investigation were completed in April 2010. Urban Land Conservancy is having a consultant prepare a LBP/ACBM management plan to manage identified materials in-place and ensure worker and tenant health and safety. 

In 2010, $200,000 in American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) funds from the Office of Economic Development (OED), City and County of Denver, were granted to replace the roof on the multifaceted structure. The roof repairs will ensure that mold from roof leaks do not reoccur and the ACBM and LBP surveys were critical to completing the repair work and protecting worker and tenant health.