Denver nonprofit Urban Peak embroiled in wage dispute as it completes four-story youth homeless shelter

In what’s become an ugly dispute centered on a feel-good project, Denver’s best-known nonprofit working to solve youth homelessness is being accused of underpaying its contractors as it builds a four-story, $38 million shelter. Urban Peak, which plans to open the new, dormitory-style shelter this summer, paid its construction crews at residential rates instead of business construction rates, according to a review by Denver Labor, which flagged the pay issue as potential wage theft. The mistake could bump up the cost of the state-of-the-art building by $2 million to $4...