By Deborah Grigsby | The Gazette
The City of Arvada spent $6.3 million to purchase a former charter school after it closed earlier this year due to declining enrollment.
Now residents are pushing back against one of the potential options for the former Early College Arvada campus — a navigation center for homeless people.
Arvada, like other cities along Colorado’s Front Range, is dealing with a homeless population, though nowhere as big as the problem in Denver, where the crisis keeps growing despite officials spending millions of dollars in the last several years.