Boys and Girls Club to Rise at Holly Square
At the site of a 2008 gang fire-bombing, the Anschutz Foundation just awarded a $5 million grant for construction of the Nancy P. Anschutz Boys & Girls Club, slated to be complete in the fall of 2013. Other collaborators on the project – as highlighted in the January issue of the GPHN – are the Urban Land Conservancy, who bought the land in 2009; the Prodigal Son organization, that organized the site’s cleanup and paving, while overseeing the creation of the peace mural; the Holly Area Redevelopment Project (HARP), a community task force that worked with the ULC to gather and review responses to Requests for Statements of Interest in developing the site, and chose the Boys & Girls Club; and also the Denver Foundation’s Strengthening Neighborhoods Program, City Council members and representatives from the Office of Economic Development. For more information about redevelopment of Holly Square please contact lsullivan@denverfoundation.org.