A Pile of Props: Denver Nonprofit Struggles to Find Home After Eviction

Paul Fiorino is standing at the corner of Broadway and Ninth Avenue, next to heap of what might look like trash to many passersby. But to Fiorino, agent for Colorado Arts Consortium and Ballet Arts Theater Denver, the pile is a time capsule of “the cornerstone of the Golden Triangle.”

He’s referring to 899 Broadway, the brick building that since 2005 had housed the Consortium, an educational arts nonprofit founded in 1974 that Fiorino joined fifteen years ago. Weeks ago, the organization was served an eviction notice to make way for a new development; for Fiorino, it brought up memories of 2006,  when the Ballet Arts Theater, another nonprofit he’d joined in 1993, had to move out of the neighboring building — also to make way for a future highrise.

“Developers run this city,” he…