Real Estate Deal Timeline

• May 2011: Emily Griffith’s original name for the school she founded, “Opportunity School,” was replaced with “Technical College.” 
• November 6, 2012: November 6, 2012: Denver voters approved a $466 million debt increase for DPS, increasing taxes by a maximum of $47.9 million annually, with a maximum repayment cost of $738 million.  View "Ballot Language" here 
• November 30, 2012: DPS applied for a Certificate of Non-Historic Status for the “Tier 1” Emily Griffith Opportunity School.  DPS also paid $150,000 in non-refundable earnest money to go under contract on a new building. 
• December 4, 2012: DPS signed a contract to buy a 50 year old 13-story building at 1860 Lincoln St. for $19.34 million to house Emily Griffith Technical College, Emily Griffith High School, Downtown Denver Expeditionary School, and several of the district’s administration offices.  
• This move will relocate the College of Trades and Continuing Education classes to 1205 Osange St. in December 2014 and the Video and Editing Production Program, DPStv22 and DPS’ Distance Learning Network (DDLN), to 200 E. 9^th Ave., dispersing these programs that were once consolidated at the Opportunity School Campus, which fostered greater cooperation among these programs. 
• December 20, 2012 DPS withdrew its application for a Certificate of Non-Historic Status application in compliance with their Policy FB- Historical Designation ofFacilities. 
• September 2013: A Historic Structure Assessment was completed by SlaterPaul Architects, but the assessment has still not been released to the public.
• February 13, 2014: Announcement that the name of the 1860 Lincoln St. building would be “Emily Griffith Campus."
• Current Status: 
• "Seeking Opportunity for the Opportunity School," by Annie Levinsky, Executive Director of Historic Denver, published in Volume 43, Number 1, of Historic Denver News, is the most recent update regarding the future of Opportunity School. 
• "Emily Griffith Technical College is Moving" has some links to news stories that have been posted on Emily Griffith Technical College's website. 
• "The Bond & Mill Levy Information Site" has information about how the $466 million approved by voters in 2012 is being used.  The site includes updates about major bond projects, however, even though $30,205,000 million in bond funds are being used for the Emily Griffith Relocation and on the 1860 Lincoln St. Emily Griffith Campus, it is not included as a major bond project or non bond-funded project.