Littleton

By Julie Deden, 2 September, 2025

Side-by-side photos of the building's front taken decades apart. Left shows part of a fenced-in playground at the far left and a YMCA sign on the far right. The right photo shows a new street sign at the left, new sidewalks, a patio with picnic tables, a rose garden and more trees.
Though the Colorado Center for the Blind occupied the building in August, 2000, the Y still used the playground for its summer daycare camp in 2001, just visible in the photo on the left. A project completed in 2018 reconfigured the parking lot and front sidewalks, as well as adding a patio, front garden and additional landscaping to the north of the parking lot.

In 1988, the Colorado Center for the Blind opened its doors at our first location at 2230 South Broadway in Denver. We began our program with five students and three staff members. The Center grew quickly over the first several years, and it soon became evident that we needed more space. In 1993, we purchased another building at 1830 South Acoma, and we ran programs in both buildings for several years. Even with this new building, however, we realized our programs would soon outgrow our available space again. In 1999, we determined that we needed a larger facility and one where all of our programs could be under one roof. So, we began looking for a new home.

By Dan Burke, 15 May, 2018

After delivering Braille menus to Dirt Coffee, Rebecca was the first to put one to use.Here are a couple of pics taken this morning at the Dirt Coffee Bar in downtown Littleton. Dirt is a nonprofit operation dedicated to employment for people with Autism and we knew we had a lot of values in common when they called us to ask about Braille menus and board games for the shop a month before it opened. There’s nothing like a Braille menu!

This morning we delivered two copies of the menu in Braille … and of course we had to try out their coffee and hot chocolate!

Here’s a short clip from dirtcoffee.org

Dirt is on a mission to bring you quality crafted coffee, food & drink while employing & empowering individuals with autism. … From the ground up, our shop will go further to cultivate a culture of acceptance, inclusion, and opportunity