CHURCH NEEDS NEW OWNER, NEW PURPOSE
Denver is looking for a nonprofit organization that wants to buy a cityowned former church in the Globeville neighborhood and turn it into something that will benefit the neighborhood.
The building is at 4400 Lincoln St., across the street from the Garden Place Academy elementary school. The city controls it and a parking lot across the alley at the corner of East 44th and Sherman streets, according to a news release Thursday from the city’s Office of Economic Development.
Denver is looking for an organization or group that can buy, redevelop and operate a “multi-purpose, community-oriented facility ” on the property. It is willing to “entertain other reasonable proposals” that will have a positive impact on the area, according to the release. The key is a project that blends with the Globeville neighborhood and meets the needs of people living there, the city says.
Thursday’s release did not list an asking price. City officials plan to post a more detailed request for qualifications for interested organizations on the Denvergov.org/oed website at 4 p.m. Feb. 20. Fed center reactor faces possible fine. Concern over the operation of a nuclear reactor at the Denver Federal Center has one arm of the federal government proposing to fine another, and a reactor supervisor has been reassigned with his access revoked.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has proposed to have a $7,250 fine levied against the U.S. Geological Survey for “research reactor violations,” according to an NRC news release.
The NRC recently carried out two separate investigations of the TRIGA (Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics) nuclear reactor, which is used for research, and found violations associated with staffing and training requirements, the release stated.
The USGS has implemented corrective actions, according to the release, but not before “pausing reactor operations to allow for an assessment of the violations and the operational culture of the reactor organization.”
One violation involved a USGS reactor supervisor who “deliberately falsified documentation showing that reactor operators had completed required training, when in fact the training never took place,” the NRC said. That supervisor also presented “false documentation” to an NRC inspector.
A second investigation found that the same supervisor “violated staffing requirements by performing certain reactor tests without a second qualified person present, as required by NRC regulations.” Man convicted of gun crimes. A man who held up a victim, pulling a gun from inside a Bible case, has been found guilty of federal drug and gun crimes.
Miguel Antonio Garcia, 40, of Denver, was found guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court after a three-day trial, according to a news release.
Garcia was convicted of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a prohibited person, possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.