Cursed

I think this empty church at the corner of Leetsdale and Colorado Blvd (50 S Colorado Blvd) is cursed.

It once housed Denver Temple Baptist Church.  A 1995 article said that it was Denver's oldest Southern Baptist Church and it was debt-free.  And the property was shared by 4 congregations - Anglo, Hispanic, Korean, and black.  A cellular phone company rented the steeple to house an antenna.  Then something happened to make them sell the debt-free property to the Universal Church.  The Universal Church evidently had trouble spreading their message (since if you don't believe in hell, why go to church) and it folded sometime around 2011, I think.

Then in 2014 it was purchased by McKinnon & Associates who had plans to build either 40 or 54 condos/townhouses on the 1 acre site.  However, the neighborhood association would not agree because they said it was too dense and because of the awkward entrances and exits.  The developer would not agree to less units because of the cost of building an underground parking garage.  So the city council denied the re-zoning request.

So now it sits empty with a fence around it as you can see.  There aren't any broken windows or graffiti, but it is just a matter of time.  Unless either the city or the developer changes their minds, the property will sit abandoned, while hundreds of thousands of cars zoom by every day, only 1/2 mile from one of the most booming areas in the country (Cherry Creek).

Update 7/8/17:  I was wrong about no graffiti.  The side facing Colorado Blvd has a lot of graffiti on it.