June 22, 2024
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Denver Metro Village - Fly Through
DMV is an existing senior housing community located on West Colfax. The project involves four-story addition that adds 19 new units and a new four story parking garage with 180 new sparking spaces and ground floor retail. The project also includes comprehensive renovations to the existing 18 story high rise tower that houses 190 existing units. This complex project required extensive coordination with residents and agencies.
The remodeling is beautiful, but the crime in the area overshadows everything
Denver Metro Village
1523 Quitman St
Denver, CO 80204
Click here to visit Denver Metro Village website
Click here to check Denver Crime - ALWAYS CHECK THIS BEFORE YOU MOVE THERE
Click here to check Denver Crime around W. Colfax
Here I list the one block areas around Denver Metro Village from W. Colfax to W. Conejos to 1500 blocks of N Quitman and N Raleigh St
4020 W Colfax Ave in Denver - January 1 to May 4, 2024
assault causing minor bodily injury, Wednesday March 6
criminal mischief - other, Sunday March 24
burglary of a business without forced entry, Wednesday March 20
threatening to injure, Saturday March 2
criminal mischief to a motor vehicle, Monday Jan.
4057 W Colfax Ave in Denver - January 1 to May 4, 2024
resisting arrest, Tuesday March 26
police interference, Tuesday March 26
disturbing the peace, Tuesday March 26
motor vehicle theft, Saturday Feb. 24
4250 W Colfax Ave in Denver - January 1 to May 4, 2024
theft - other, Monday March 11
N Quitman St / W Conejos Pl in Denver - January 1 to May 4, 2024
giving false information to police, Wednesday Jan. 10
Crime N Quitman S
1500 Block N Quitman St in Denver - January 1 to May 4, 2024
assault causing minor bodily injury, Wednesday April 10
1523 N Quitman St in Denver - January 1 to May 4, 2024
theft of items from a vehicle, Sunday April 28
motor vehicle theft, Sunday April 14
criminal mischief - graffiti, Thursday Feb. 8
bicycle theft, Friday Jan. 5
burglary of a residence without forced entry, Wednesday Jan. 10
1550 N Raleigh St in Denver - January 1 to May 4, 2024
criminal mischief to a motor vehicle, Monday April 8
motor vehicle theft, Wednesday April 3
theft of parts from a vehicle, Sunday April 28
criminal trespassing, Tuesday April 2
theft - other, Friday March 29
motor vehicle theft, Thursday March 21
criminal mischief to a motor vehicle, Monday March 11
motor vehicle theft, Monday March 11
theft from a building, Sunday March 10
burglary of a business without forced entry, Wednesday Feb. 28
theft of parts from a vehicle, Thursday Feb. 1
burglary of a residence with forced entry, Sunday Jan. 21
theft - other, Sunday Jan. 14
1565 N Raleigh St in Denver - January 1 to May 4, 2024
theft of items from a vehicle, Wednesday April 24
criminal mischief - other, Tuesday April 2
theft of items from a vehicle, Monday April 1
motor vehicle theft, Thursday March 7
criminal mischief - other, Thursday Feb. 8
theft of items from a vehicle, Thursday Feb. 1
criminal trespassing, Thursday Jan. 18
October 3, 2013
Click here to read Denver police: Gunman killed himself after shooting at retirement home
October 3, 2013
Click here to read Manager Of Senior High Rise Fights For Life After Shooting
When living in HUD-related buildings you can count on the staff going into your apartment OFTEN. They do inspections, check for bed bugs, fire alarms, water pipes, electrical, etc. It's part of being a tenant. The shooter in the 2013 incident didn't like that
My question would be, "How did he even had a gun inside the building? Mom's lived in a few HUD-related buildings, in Colorado and elsewhere and they don't allow guns. It's even part of the move-in application process."
October 4, 2013
Click here to read Denver Coroner identifies man police say shot manager killed himself
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My disabled mom had gotten on the waiting list for this low-income senior community. She got approved and then we started watching the crime reports
We knew it wasn't the best area of town, but felt inside the secure building would be safe. Then the "burglary of a residence without forced entry, Wednesday Jan. 10" showed up on the reports
That was enough for us to say, "Nope, not moving there"
It's too bad, because the part she was to live in was newly built and the staff were nice
That's when we found about report about a previous tenant in 2013 shot the manager and then killed himself in front of other tenants!
Video from Pubity at https://www.tiktok.com/@pubity
EVERY senior community needs an inoperable car with working radio in their parking lot. That way the senior can sit in it rocking out for the memories. For some that might be the only joy they have in life, especially if their families have taken them to senior communities or nursing homes and rarely, if ever, visit.
We think ALL HUD housing needs Solar. Just think of all the money they'd save the government!
Susan Auslander, age 89, Spearheaded a Solar-Energy Drive in Connecticut and it worked!
An octogenarian Hunter College alumna has spearheaded a successful drive to install solar panels throughout her Connecticut retirement community — and she’s just getting started.
(This was not for low income housing, but it could be.)
CLICK HERE TO READ WHAT SHE DID
Her Retirement Home Said ‘No’ to Solar Panels. She Got It to Buy 1,344.
In what seemed like a futile fight with her retirement community’s management, Susan Auslander, just shy of 90, found an opening.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT WHAT Susan Auslander did
Things my mom did when she lived in MN before she came back home to Colorado (Click news article name to read more.)
Got a bus stop at the library
and
Marshall woman petitions to have bus stop at library
Helped turn ALL HUD housing into non-smoking
Another game-changer in the works to eliminate smoking
and
HUD SECRETARY CASTRO ANNOUNCES PUBLIC HOUSING TO BE SMOKE-FREE
New rule protects health and safety of residents, saves PHAs millions of dollars in preventable damage
Nov 30, 2016
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HUD's national smoke-free policy will save public housing agencies $153 million every year in repairs and preventable fires, including $94 million in secondhand smoke-related health care, $43 million in renovation of smoking-permitted units, and $16
https://archives.hud.gov/news/2016/pr16-184.cfm#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Centers%20for,smoking%2Dpermitted%20units%2C%20and%20%2416
(Just think of how much it would save our government to add solar to HUD/low income housing!)
How To Use The Internet To Pay For Your Dental Bills
This is how mom got the funds to finance some of her dental work 8 years ago
(THE LINKS THEY TALK ABOUT FOR MOM ARE NO LONGER VALID - THIS WAS FILMED 8 YEARS AGO)
This is mom's interview on a National podcast. She was also interviewed by NBC National News about the harassment and stalking she's endured in 1994. It's off-and-on to this day, December 13, 2023.
