38th & York Street
38th Avenue and York Street
Constructed in 1942 as a regional medical equipment and supply facility for the U.S. Army, the Denver Medical Depot was operated by the Surgeon General as one of eleven branch medical supply depots in the United States during World War II. The facility was designed by renowned Denver architect Temple Hoyne Buell and erected by F.J. Kirchhof Construction Company.
During WW II the Depot employed almost 800 workers, many of them women, and shipped more than 250 million pounds of medical equipment and supplies in support of the US war effort. Following the war, the Army discontinued its use as a medical depot and in subsequent years the site was used for a variety of public purposes: the Veterans Administration (1947), the City and County of Denver (1949 – 1950), the Air Force Finance and Accounting Center (1951 – 1977) and again by the City and County of Denver and Denver Public Schools (1977 – 1992).
However, in 1992, the site was vacated and returned to the Federal Government. Hampered by environmental contamination and years of deffered maintenance, the 37-acre site sat vacant and underutilized for six years.
In 1998 North Denver Industrial, LLC (NDI) and Inner-City Community Development Corporation (ICDC) partnered to redevelop the site into a flex-industrial office park. To facilitate redevelopment of the site, DURA provided $3.6 million in TIF reimbursement and helped effect transfer of the property to NDI and ICDC.
In addition to much needed environmental remediation, the project rehabilitated and put back into service approximately 650,000 square feet of industrial and office space. Today the formerly vacant and contaminated site is more than 70 percent restored and is on the National Register of Historic Places and the State Register of Historic Properties.
In 2007, a portion of ICDC’s holdings were transferred to Inner City Health Center (ICHC), a private, non-profit, health care facility that provides medical and dental services for low income and uninsured families. ICHC has undertaken additional remodeling and rehabilitation of historic structures on the site, as well as constructing new medical facilities – helping to fulfill its mission of serving the surrounding community and a fitting outcome given the site’s historical role as a medical depot.
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Project Description:
Redevelopment of an approximately 37 acre former Army medical depot site into a 650,000 square foot flex-industrial and office park.
Developer:
North Denver Industrial, LLC
Inner-City Community Development Corporation
Inner City Health Center
Total Project Cost:
$14 million
DURA Participation:
$3.6 million in TIF reimbursement
Tax Increment Source:
Property Taxes
Term:
Reimbursement of Developer or October 31, 2021
Project Websites:
Colorado & Santa Fe
Inner City Health Center
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