DENVER | Main Development Thread #6 - Page 127

TakeFive · #**2521** Posted **Jan 28, 2015, 7:20 AM**

The Dirt... Good Get.

I posted some interesting (or not) Daily Dribble on the Transportation Thread HERE regarding Colorado's budget process and road and bridges versus education spending etc.

DownhomeDenver · #**2522** Posted **Jan 28, 2015, 1:18 PM**

Hey we still thinking that 1144 15th Street will break ground in May???

RyanD · #**2523** Posted **Jan 28, 2015, 4:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by DownhomeDenver

Hey we still thinking that 1144 15th Street will break ground in May???

It better! I'm longing some luffing jib crane action!

Denver Dweller · #**2524** Posted **Jan 28, 2015, 5:15 PM**

http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/mornin...mA+ElKTwGoSbqOBYu5F/O7W7Amf&t=1422465059

rds70 · #**2525** Posted **Jan 28, 2015, 7:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by DownhomeDenver

Hey we still thinking that 1144 15th Street will break ground in May???

The building permit for the tower was just submitted today. A foundation permit had been submitted previously.

So, its looks like it is still on track for May.

BeerAndLoathing · #**2526** Posted **Jan 28, 2015, 8:19 PM**

Not sure if this has been noted here already but according to the Denver Post the World Trade Center Denver is looking for a new space:

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_27410568/denver-world-trade-center-looks-more-space-and

Hopefully they will stay downtown. The two WTC towers are being renamed to the "Denver Energy Center".

DownhomeDenver · #**2527** Posted **Jan 28, 2015, 8:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by rds70

The building permit for the tower was just submitted today. A foundation permit had been submitted previously.

So, its looks like it is still on track for May.

RDS i dont know if I have ever told you this...but I love you. Sorry i know that's creepy. LOL

seventwenty · #**2528** Posted **Jan 28, 2015, 9:08 PM**

So creepy.

You purple fonts can move this info if you want: WHO CAN GIG INTARUTTS IN DENVER!??

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CenturyLink has for the first time revealed the Denver neighborhoods where it's offering 1 gigabit Internet service, aiming to show it's keeping its promise to bring the city ultra-fast residential Internet.

. . .

Gigbit speeds are currently being offered in the Baker, Bonnie Brae, Belcaro, Cole, Congress Park, Corey Merrill, Overland, Park Hill, Platt Park, Rosedale, Stapleton, Washington Park East, Washington Park West, University, University Park and Villa Park neighborhoods, CenturyLink said.

BG918 · #**2529** Posted **Jan 28, 2015, 9:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by seventwenty

So creepy.

You purple fonts can move this info if you want: WHO CAN GIG INTARUTTS IN DENVER!??

Nice, I may have to switch to CenturyLink when I move to a new townhouse in University this summer. I currently bundle both cable and internet with Comcast.

By the way that's awesome news about 1144 15th St. That will be the first true office skyscraper to rise in Denver in a long time, and the fact that it's all spec (along with 1401 Lawrence across the street) speaks volumes about office demand in Denver and specifically downtown which has to compete with the DTC and other sub markets like Cherry Creek.

Denver · #**2530** Posted **Jan 28, 2015, 11:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by DownhomeDenver

RDS i dont know if I have ever told you this...but I love you. Sorry i know that's creepy. LOL

We were all thinking it. You were just the one to say it.

mishko27 · #**2531** Posted **Jan 29, 2015, 2:04 AM**

Belleview Station has a new website, with some new data (especially block plans). It's pretty interesting looking at what has become out of One Belleview Station - it does have ground floor retail facing Belleview Ave., continuing the store front of MileHouse Apartments. I do hate that it will have the ugly parking garage that's gonna kill the walkability flow of the neighbourhood, but at the same time, the project is centered around the Newport Street (connected directly to the light rail station).

Also, hey guys, I am new here

Huge urbanism geek, born and raised Eastern European, lived in Hong Kong for 2 years before I moved to the US. I am all about public transportation and associated development.

pablosan · #**2532** Posted **Jan 29, 2015, 3:28 AM**

Wkelcome Mishko

RyanD · #**2533** Posted **Jan 29, 2015, 4:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by seventwenty

You purple fonts

Hey! I'm a purple font. I think Gigabit internet is a great thing for any city growth and development. It doesn't have to be all infill, buildings, blah blah blah. It stays here! Unless Cirrus, who's tagline clearly states nobody should listen to you, does otherwise.

TakeFive · #**2534** Posted **Jan 29, 2015, 5:41 AM**

mishko27...
cumbresblogs.com

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Originally Posted by mishko27

Belleview Station has a new website, with some new data (especially block plans). It's pretty interesting looking at what has become out of One Belleview Station - it does have ground floor retail facing Belleview Ave., continuing the store front of MileHouse Apartments. I do hate that it will have the ugly parking garage that's gonna kill the walkability flow of the neighbourhood, but at the same time, the project is centered around the Newport Street (connected directly to the light rail station).

Also, hey guys, I am new here

Huge urbanism geek, born and raised Eastern European, lived in Hong Kong for 2 years before I moved to the US. I am all about public transportation and associated development.

Thanks for the heads up. That's quite a creative and slick website. I suspect it will be a very successful development.

CharlesCO · #**2535** Posted **Jan 29, 2015, 8:21 AM**

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Originally Posted by BeerAndLoathing

Not sure if this has been noted here already but according to the Denver Post the World Trade Center Denver is looking for a new space:

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_27410568/denver-world-trade-center-looks-more-space-and

Hopefully they will stay downtown. The two WTC towers are being renamed to the "Denver Energy Center".

It's too bad that big Helvetica sign that fronts Broadway is going away. I always thought that was cool in a 1970s sort of way.

blm3034L!fe · #**2536** Posted **Jan 29, 2015, 4:18 PM**

Well they will have two very nice options pretty soon with Hines and tabor II

Brainpathology · #**2537** Posted **Jan 29, 2015, 4:53 PM**

They are going to use the ruins of Chaco Canyon as a foundation for a skyscraper before they use the one for Tabor II.

seventwenty · #**2538** Posted **Jan 29, 2015, 5:24 PM**

More bills to track!

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Originally Posted by DBJ

Senate Bill 135, sponsored by Sens. Beth Martinez Humenik, R-Commerce City, and Cheri Jahn, D-Wheat Ridge is not a major shake-up of current law. It takes two aspects of a bill vetoed last year by Gov. John Hickenlooper — most notably, a requirement that urban-renewal authority boards be expanded to include representation of the county government — and offers a reform measure that Colorado mayors who opposed the 2014 effort can support.

What it does not include is the provision of last year's bill that led to its veto — a requirement that city governments that designate that all local tax-revenue increases from an urban-renewal area be used to redevelop that area must set aside the same percentage of their sales-tax revenue as the percentage of property-tax revenue that counties give up in the deals.

Municipal leaders had said the inability to access that revenue would stifle their ability to bond for urban-renewal areas and essentially would shut down major renovation projects like Lakewood's Belmar shopping center and residential area that have benefited in the past from the tax-increment financing.

Predictably, city and county leaders reacted very differently.

. . .

Mark Radtke, legislative and policy advocate for the Colorado Municipal League, said city leaders discussed whether they could back a one-size-fits-all requirement on setting aside tax revenues after the Legislature adjourned last year, but they ultimately decided that projects reap and use funding in such different ways that any one requirement was infeasible. SB 135, then, is an attempt to advance law in areas where cities and counties agree.
"This would be, I think, a big benefit to the counties because they would have a representative on the urban-renewal board," Radtke said. "They'd be there every step of the way and continuing throughout the life of the project."

However, Gini Pingenot, policy and research supervisor for Colorado Counties Inc., said that board representation is a very small part of what counties want from urban renewal reform. And, as such, county leaders are planning to support another bill that is expected to be introduced in the coming weeks.

Read the bill here.

wong21fr · #**2539** Posted **Jan 30, 2015, 3:55 PM**

Anyone realize that we now have two 21-story, a 22-story, a 25-story, and a 34-story building U/C downtown right now? Plus a 40-story project that should break ground in Q2?

DownhomeDenver · #**2540** Posted **Jan 30, 2015, 4:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by wong21fr

Anyone realize that we now have two 21-story, a 22-story, a 25-story, and a 34-story building U/C downtown right now? Plus a 40-story project that should break ground in Q2?

Oh...and the new project datasheet was released last week too. There's a new development plan that was filed for 999 17th St too.