“Safe and Protected” Homeless Coalition Building in Denver Becomes Site of Grisly Murder

On March 22, Erin Liljander was caught on camera going into Patrick Lane’s apartment at the Renaissance Riverfront Lofts — an award-winning affordable-housing complex located along the South Platte River Trail, near the Railyards Marketplace center in RiNo. Lane never came out.

Touted by the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless as the agency’s first “green” apartment building, the five-story Riverfront Lofts project at 3440 Park Avenue West has won state and national awards for the struicture’s eco-friendly construction and design, as well as its contributions to the community. 

Liljander — a 22-year-old who lives in a homeless camp near the Globeville area and is nicknamed “Schiz” — had been to the building at least once before, according to police, and was caught on…