The former Colorado Women's College campus, most recently home to Johnson and Wales University, has been sold to a group consisting of Denver Public Schools, the Denver Housing Authority, and the Urban Land Institute. Colorado Women's College was incorporated in 1888, and operated continuously at that location until, due to financial struggles, it was sold to the University of Denver. DU guaranteed that it would maintain a women's program there, and also moved their law school to the campus. Eventually, DU sold it all to Johnson and Wales University, which put it up for sale last year. It will now become home to an expanded Denver School of the Arts and to affordable housing. Hopefully, the "private property, keep out" signs when Johnson and Wales owned it will be removed, and neighbors will be allowed to stroll the grounds once again. DU built new buildings on it's main campus to house the law school and the women's program after they sold CWC, and recently changed the name of the women's division back to Colorado Women's College. And by the way, the original gateway to that campus, seen in the photograph above, is now at the entrance to the college's garden.
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