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The Salvation Army DDSC is conceived to be a facility to serve the economically disadvantaged of the Curtis Park area. It will become an architectural transition between the expanding high rise construction of Denver’s downtown to the west of the site and the increasingly vibrant residential construction to the east. The project massing is broken down to residential scale with retail expression along the street edges. The Salvation Army has giving the complex the working title of “Harbor Beacon” due to the design in which both of the chapels are glowing beacons.

Included in Phase I project are services such as an Education Center, Family Services and a Counseling Center along with a dining facility to support the transitional housing and a 100 seat chapel that will be available to both residents of the center and the Curtis Park community. The upper floors consist of 200 units of transitional housing, grouped in pods around a series of rooftop gardens to promote a sense of community.

Phase II will include 60 units of permanent affordable housing, retail, a health club, and a raised garden area organized along the same central garden axis as Phase I, intended to complete the supportive community envisioned by the Salvation Army.