Work has begun on a $34-million building that will be the future home of Rocky Mountain PBS, local jazz station KUVO and a host of other public media resources in Denver’s transforming Arapahoe Square area.
The forthcoming Buell Public Media Center will be the base of operations for Rocky Mountain Public Media, Colorado’s biggest member-supported multimedia organization and the parent company of KUVO (89.3 FM) and the local PBS affiliate (KRMA-Channel 6).
Funded through a capital campaign still seeking to raise another $3.5 million, the three-story, 63,528-square-foot facility will house studios, offices, community space and a ground-floor classroom where Emily Griffith Technical College and the city of Denver will offer classes focused on creative industries, according to a news release.
Amanda Mountain, Rocky Mountain Public Media’s president and CEO, said in a news release that partnering with the college and the city will help “bring a whole new level of community engagement and impact to our collective work to strengthen the civic fabric of our state”
The building is going in on the northwest corner of 21st and Arapahoe streets, just a few blocks from Coors Field in a portion of the Five Points neighborhood that is in the midst of a sustained flurry of new development. It is expected to be completed in early 2020.