Prodigy Coffee Refills Purple Door Space, Carries on Mission
Less than a year after Purple Door Cafe opened in Uptown, the nonprofit coffee shop’s doors shuttered. But they won’t stay closed for long – on Friday, May 9, the space will reopen as Prodigy Coffee.
The shop at 1640 Sherman Street was the second iteration of Purple Door Cafe, the social enterprise of Dry Bones Denver that serves young adults experiencing homelessness, and used the coffee shop and wholesale roasting business to provide job training. Purple Door had closed its original cafe on Welton Street back in 2019 in order to focus on roasting, but got back into the game after the Central Presbyterian Church presented an opportunity to operate out of a space there. Challenges inspired the nonprofit to reevaluate and refocus, however, and it ultimately discontinued coffee programming and closed the shop and roasting operations, as the nonprofit reported in a heartfelt post on February 24:
