DENVER | Main Development Thread #6 - Page 2

EngiNerd · #21 Posted **Jun 9, 2014, 4:32 PM**

Well, as soon as 17W kicks off that will be another 750 or so units from that one project alone....it's a big one.

King DenCity · #22 Posted **Jun 9, 2014, 5:07 PM**

Can we please do a midrise/highrise rundown list on here? like proposed and under construction. I keep forgetting them all.

Fritzdude · #23 Posted **Jun 9, 2014, 7:58 PM**

Hey Ryan: was this you in the jet pack suit trying to get better camera angles around the Four Seasons downtown..?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_0vfY6unvI

PLANSIT · #24 Posted **Jun 9, 2014, 8:11 PM**

From the Denver coalition in Seattle:

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Seattle's Diane Sugimura, Planning Director, reports lack of condos in Seattle related to const defect liability. Sounds familiar.

Mulligan · #25 Posted **Jun 9, 2014, 8:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by EngiNerd

Well, as soon as 17W kicks off that will be another 750 or so units from that one project alone....it's a big one.

Which one is 17W again?

PLANSIT · #26 Posted **Jun 9, 2014, 8:32 PM**

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Which one is 17W again?

Whole Foods (across street from Cadence) with 3, 12-story towers on 2-story podium.

Mulligan · #27 Posted **Jun 9, 2014, 8:40 PM**

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Whole Foods (across street from Cadence) with 3, 12-story towers on 3-story podium.

Ah ok. No renderings...that's what threw me off.

utenation · #28 Posted **Jun 9, 2014, 8:47 PM**

Just saw this today. I apologize if someone already posted this.. Question, is this the Four Seasons?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b2xnqFbUpw

mhays · #29 Posted **Jun 9, 2014, 10:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by PLANSIT

From the Denver coalition in Seattle:

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To the extent our situation is parallel, higher insurance premiums aren't the main problem. Mostly it's that buyers, financiers, and developers don't trust the presale model. So for the time being, the market is only developers who can build without that type of financing. Very few can do that -- one so far, one more planned this summer. They have the added advantage of building at today's prices but selling in a year when prices are presumably much higher.

DenverInfill · #30 Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 12:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by King DenCity

Can we please do a midrise/highrise rundown list on here? like proposed and under construction. I keep forgetting them all.

I'm planning an update on this soon, but there's this...

http://denverinfill.com/blog/2014/01/downtown-denver-residential-boom-january-2014-update.html

DenverPoke · #31 Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 1:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by King DenCity

Can we please do a midrise/highrise rundown list on here? like proposed and under construction. I keep forgetting them all.

The list isn't that long.

Off the top of my head (8 stories or more).

U/C:

Platform
Triangle Building
1601 Wewatta
Hyatt House/Place
EnV
Art Hotel

Nearly done/crane down:
Verve
16M

Hopefully beginning by end of year:

Confluence
17W (??)
16 and Wewatta Kimpton
1801 Wewatta (??)

Who knows:

16 Chestnut
1401 Lawrence
1144 15th
Tabor 2
999 17th
Skyhouse Denver

Edit:Oxygen, Alexan Uptown

What am I missing?

comoneymaker · #32 Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 5:09 AM**

Before we get to page 20 should we get a run down of under construction and proposed for out of region visitors? If you want to throw recently completed please nothing older that 2 years. It just looks tacky when we still have the convention center hotel and up there...

DenverInfill · #33 Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 6:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by comoneymaker

Before we get to page 20 should we get a run down of under construction and proposed for out of region visitors? If you want to throw recently completed please nothing older that 2 years. It just looks tacky when we still have the convention center hotel and up there...

Huh? What are you talking about?

comoneymaker · #34 Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 6:48 AM**

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Huh? What are you talking about?

A list and pics of stuff for people who hop on here and want to know whats going on in D town!

Brainpathology · #35 Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 11:59 AM**

Denver cityscape has a rendering of skyhouse Denver. Which looks like skyhouse everywhere else I think. It certainly looks similar to skyhouse Orlando. With the small difference that it looks like the accent colors are a nod to most of the brick skins we usually see in Denver.

If buildings are going to become franchises like this we could do worse. I'm sure people will point out how we could do better as well. But, at least in Orlando, the new building adds more than it took away by a good long way.

TakeFive · #36 Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 2:14 PM**

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I don't think so. There's been so much positive absorption of the projects that have come online that I expect a few more large (200 units +) and even one or two very large (500 units +) that are in the pipelines to break ground.

Admittedly, I have little visibility of those projects in the pipeline which may be far enough along and have the horsepower to get out and "under construction."

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Originally Posted by Brainpathology

Denver cityscape has a rendering of skyhouse Denver. Which looks like skyhouse everywhere else I think. It certainly looks similar to skyhouse Orlando. With the small difference that it looks like the accent colors are a nod to most of the brick skins we usually see in Denver.

This is one I wasn't even aware of yet. Be nice if "skyhouse" and/or 999 17th Street would go under construction.

Ken... always enjoy your 1.5 mile radius, residential analysis and look forward to the next update.

EngiNerd · #37 Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 2:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by Brainpathology

Denver cityscape has a rendering of skyhouse Denver. Which looks like skyhouse everywhere else I think. It certainly looks similar to skyhouse Orlando. With the small difference that it looks like the accent colors are a nod to most of the brick skins we usually see in Denver.

If buildings are going to become franchises like this we could do worse. I'm sure people will point out how we could do better as well. But, at least in Orlando, the new building adds more than it took away by a good long way.

This is great news, another large parking lot bites the dust, with a significantly tall building to boot! Just the other day someone on this board made a comment about the sea of parking in that area in what could be argued is the core of Downtown, and wishing it would begin to be whittled away....well this is a good start. The parking garage on a quarter of the lot is a little unfortunate, but looks like it will at least have some retail on the ground floor.

RyanD · #38 Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 3:26 PM**

Best adaptive reuse I have seen in this development cycle!!

Adaptive Reuse: Colorado National Bank Hotel Conversion Final Update – Part 1
via DenverUrbanism

wong21fr · #39 Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 3:38 PM**

Here's a rendering of the proposed Skyhouse Denver from Denver Cityscape:

If this is a cookie-cutter design, than me likely- Neo Art Deco touches and all. I'm not a big fan of the six-story parking structure fronting Lincoln given the treatments for the openings on the parking decks, a mesh screen would be better, but at least it has ground-floor retail and it takes out one of the most painful parking lots in the CBD.

BG918 · #40 Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 3:52 PM**

That will look great on that parking lot, that stretch of a Broadway needs something like this. Unfortunately all the Sky Houses have the ugly adjacent garage, too bad they couldn't incorporate into the base of the tower to make it taller and not have another huge parking structure on Lincoln. Rooftop pool too, these will likely be some expensive apartments.