Officials cut the ribbon on long-awaited Aurora Regional Navigation Campus
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- November 10, 2025
The city of Aurora and its government and nonprofit partners celebrated the substantial completion of the Aurora Regional Navigation Campus at a special event today, marking a bold step forward for homelessness resolution in Colorado’s third largest city.
Tier three accommodations in Aurora’s Homeless Navigation Campus. Credit: ColoradoPolitics
The navigation campus — formerly a Crowne Plaza hotel — at 15500 E. 40th Ave., has been in the works for more than a year after the city purchased the building in May 2024 for $26.5 million.
The 600-person facility will open to the public Nov. 17, when the operator Advance Pathways will shuttle homeless people over from the Aurora Day Resource Center as it shuts down.
The facility has come a long way from being a hotel last year, Mayor Mike Coffman said at the ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday, adding that the facility will act “not as a handout, but as a hand up.”
His team chose Advance Pathways as the operator in a competitive bid process because of the organization’s “holistic” approach to homelessness, he said.
“That is what this facility will embody,” Coffman said. “A people-focused, progress-driven approach to homelessness that empowers and prepares people to come through these doors to improve their circumstances.”
Over the past year, Aurora City Council members have moved forward with what the mayor has called a “tough love” approach to homelessness, enacting a camping ban, alongside starting a court system to address low-level offenses by homeless people.
The campus is the final puzzle piece in that approach, Coffman revealed to newsmen previously, offering a place where people can access all of the services they need in one building while being incentivized to work toward self-sufficiency.
The campus has three tiers that officials are calling “compassion,” “courage” and “commitment.”
Shantell Anderson, Mike Coffman, Jim Goebelbecker and Diane Primavera cut the ribbon in a ceremony to celebrate the opening of Aurora’s Regional Navigation Campus on Nov. 6, 2025. Credit: Coloradopolitics
