25 Years

By Julie Deden, 2 September, 2025

The Colorado Center for the Blind Celebrates 25 Years in Littleton

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.

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