DENVER | Main Development Thread #6 - Page 106

DownhomeDenver · #**2101** Posted **Dec 9, 2014, 10:40 PM**

Boulder makes my ass twitch. Anyway, someone should post some cool pics of all the construction around.

TakeFive · #**2102** Posted **Dec 10, 2014, 12:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by Brainpathology

At least SOMEONE is standing up for that one family.

"Hallelujah" - Boulder Style.

Meanwhile

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The November Economic Update paints a clear picture: People want to be in downtown Denver," said Tami Door, Downtown Denver Partnership president and CEO.

Caitlin Hendee, DBJ, has the story HERE of the latest quarterly summary released by the Downtown Denver Partnership.

I can only assume that the New Year will bring New Groundbreakings. I've wondered if some projects aren't having issues with contractor availability like SkyHouse Denver?

mhays · #**2103** Posted **Dec 10, 2014, 1:31 AM**

Lack of contractor availability for a high-profile job like that sounds unlikely. But it's common for an out-of-town developer to have price and/or contract expectations that differ from the local market, and that can make it hard to reach an agreement with a GC.

Scottk · #**2104** Posted **Dec 10, 2014, 2:31 AM**

Kuwait just announced that they are walking out on the hospital project in aurora.

rds70 · #**2105** Posted **Dec 10, 2014, 3:09 AM**

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Originally Posted by TakeFive

"Hallelujah" - Boulder Style.

Meanwhile

Caitlin Hendee, DBJ, has the story HERE of the latest quarterly summary released by the Downtown Denver Partnership.

I can only assume that the New Year will bring New Groundbreakings. I've wondered if some projects aren't having issues with contractor availability like SkyHouse Denver?

Skyhouse is still in the building permit review stage. Expect construction to start in February.

DenverPoke · #**2106** Posted **Dec 10, 2014, 3:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by rds70

Skyhouse is still in the building permit review stage. Expect construction to start in February.

Excellent! Anything new on Eviva Cherokee? Appreciate all the updates you provide.

DownhomeDenver · #**2107** Posted **Dec 10, 2014, 3:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by Scottk

Kuwait just announced that they are walking out on the hospital project in aurora.

I think you mean Kiewit

wong21fr · #**2108** Posted **Dec 10, 2014, 4:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by Scottk

Kuwait just announced that they are walking out on the hospital project in aurora.

They'd better not after we rescued their asses in 1991!

Denver · #**2109** Posted **Dec 10, 2014, 6:58 AM**

Enough of this BS about Boulder. It is a suburb full of hypocrites. Now on to more important stuff. May I present to you a rendering of the proposed hotel at 20th and Chestnut. This is supposed to be a Hilton Garden in (and a great looking one at that). From the JG Johnson website.

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A new, LEED certified hotel with a full compliment of amenities and attached parking. The project will incorporate Hose Company No. One (Denver’s first fire station) as its feature restaurant. Size:180 keys, Approximately 136,200 GSF. Approximately 43,400 GSF Underground Parking

More hi-res photos are available in the project brochure from the JG Johnson website.

Source: http://www.jgjohnson.com/?page_id=2480

TakeFive · #**2110** Posted **Dec 10, 2014, 7:05 AM**

^^ Pretty cool. I like the idea of getting hosed right there on the property.

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Originally Posted by wong21fr

They'd better not after we rescued their asses in 1991!

Defense Secretary Hagel was just there meeting with our troops stationed in the northern part of Kuwait.

Denver · #**2111** Posted **Dec 10, 2014, 7:24 AM**

Rendering of proposed renovation of the VQ hotel into micro apartments. Looks like the building will be known as "Turntable Studios." Overall the improvement to the exterior of the building look nice but it is to bad that the building will still be surrounded by a parking lot. I thought I read somewhere that the land around the building was to be developed as well?

Current building

Source: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/65098043

Renovation renderings

Source: http://www.jgjohnson.com/?page_id=2450

Scottk · #**2112** Posted **Dec 10, 2014, 11:20 AM**

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Originally Posted by DownhomeDenver

I think you mean Kiewit

Damn autocorrect

Fritzdude · #**2113** Posted **Dec 10, 2014, 12:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Denver

Enough of this BS about Boulder. It is a suburb full of hypocrites. Now on to more important stuff. May I present to you a rendering of the proposed hotel at 20th and Chestnut. This is supposed to be a Hilton Garden in (and a great looking one at that). From the JG Johnson website.

More hi-res photos are available in the project brochure from the JG Johnson website.

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Source: http://www.jgjohnson.com/?page_id=2480

It's nice to see renderings for this pivitol corner that utilizes the re-hab post building, which surely wasn't easy. Even tougher, there is an electrical sub Station adjacent to this property and I was under the impression that you couldn't build right right next to it - especially hotel residences. Don't those things have the small chance of 'blowing up' ? Not to mention the EMF (eletctro magnetic field) that is present. There is an assumed risk of getting cancer for those who are over-exposed to it, but I'm not sure if that is conclusive. Seems to be debatable.

bunt_q · #**2114** Posted **Dec 10, 2014, 3:16 PM**

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but it is to bad that the building will still be surrounded by a parking lot. I thought I red somewhere that the land around the building was to be developed as well?

Is that not what the white box on the south of the site is indicating? There's nothing there now but a rickety parking deck and empty land, so my guess is that's depicting future development.

Also, you need some parking... frankly, the fact that they're showing so little surprises me. That's 0.89 spaces per unit. Might be an all-time low for Denver.

Denver · #**2115** Posted **Dec 10, 2014, 3:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by bunt_q

Is that not what the white box on the south of the site is indicating? There's nothing there now but a rickety parking deck and empty land, so my guess is that's depicting future development.

Also, you need some parking... frankly, the fact that they're showing so little surprises me. That's 0.89 spaces per unit. Might be an all-time low for Denver.

You are probably right. We I saw that last night, I assumed the white box was indicating another property.

Stonemans_rowJ · #**2116** Posted **Dec 10, 2014, 6:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by bunt_q

Is that not what the white box on the south of the site is indicating? There's nothing there now but a rickety parking deck and empty land, so my guess is that's depicting future development.

Also, you need some parking... frankly, the fact that they're showing so little surprises me. That's 0.89 spaces per unit. Might be an all-time low for Denver.

If your math is correct that is almost 1 per unit. It's not like 2 people will live in a micro-unit.

I'd love to see some structured parking in this area and develop some of that surface parking. Surely the amount the Broncos make on 10 or so home games plus the other random events there cannot be more valuable than a large apartment or condo building?

enjo13 · #**2117** Posted **Dec 10, 2014, 9:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by bunt_q

Is that not what the white box on the south of the site is indicating? There's nothing there now but a rickety parking deck and empty land, so my guess is that's depicting future development.

Also, you need some parking... frankly, the fact that they're showing so little surprises me. That's 0.89 spaces per unit. Might be an all-time low for Denver.

I think Cadence is 0.85. At least that's what they've told me.

bunt_q · #**2118** Posted **Dec 11, 2014, 2:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by Stonemans_rowJ

Surely the amount the Broncos make on 10 or so home games plus the other random events there cannot be more valuable than a large apartment or condo building?

The Broncos don't own that property, the Metropolitan Football Stadium District - a public entity - owns it. For-profit development isn't really part of their portfolio. (Same problem that exists with respect to the District-owned property around Coors Field.)

Zmapper · #**2119** Posted **Dec 11, 2014, 6:14 AM**

I stayed at the Hotel VQ once:

Two public elevators are available to service a lobby, a top-floor restaurant, and 11 lodging floors. A third employee elevator is in the rear, and while public access is discouraged, it does service the public areas of the lodging floors.

When planning transit routes some professionals argue for connecting two strong points of demand separated by an area of relatively sparser demand, in order to use capacity efficiently. In a way, the Hotel VQ's two elevators are the ideal vertical transit route; two high demand locations (the restaurant appeared to have a substantial amount of walk-in customers) with lower demand lodging floors in between.

Two elevators appeared to be the minimum amount able to easily support the higher demand - which means that when one elevator breaks down, all hell breaks loose. On a day I was staying there, when there was something (not a football game, but enough to draw a sizable crowd) going on at Mile High Stadium, only one elevator was in service, with patrons waiting a trip or two in the lobby before they could get on (who wants to climb 13 flights of stairs?). Cars were forced to stop at all floors, and the bidirectional, non-peaked demand patterned ensured that plenty were alighting and boarding in both directions at the room levels. Due to the uber-efficiency of the layout in terms of transit demand, the hotel was reduced to operating an overcrowded transit service on five to six minute headways (I actually timed the cycles).

LAM · #**2120** Posted **Dec 11, 2014, 8:55 PM**

Google updated their aerials again and they even show the triangle building in it.