DENVER | Main Development Thread #6 - Page 348

bunt_q · #**6941** Posted **Jan 8, 2016, 8:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by RyanD

It's a podium!

You could have a deep hole and a podium! Perhaps even a deep hole and a podium with a 13th floor car wash!

RyanD · #**6942** Posted **Jan 8, 2016, 8:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by bunt_q

You could have a deep hole and a podium! Perhaps even a deep hole and a podium with a 13th floor car wash!

This is true... But why waste time? This puppy is going to go up fast! I can also get some awesome Central Downtown drone shots with this project!

If you're going to build a podium with a crap ton of parking, you might as well go all out. Car wash, and those cool little things you see in LA, and other higher tech vroom-ier cities, where there's a green arrow above the spot if it's open, red X if it's taken. So many missed opportunities in these little, huge podiums!

bunt_q · #**6943** Posted **Jan 8, 2016, 8:39 PM**

vroomy (-ier, -iest)
adjective
1.
reliant on automobiles as a result of transit sucking balls and/or distances between destinations being great
2.
a condition in which driving is a blast and cars make a heavenly "vroom" sound

mojiferous · #**6944** Posted **Jan 8, 2016, 8:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by RyanD

Are they building the office portion of this, or is it just going to be the apartments?

RyanD · #**6945** Posted **Jan 8, 2016, 9:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by bunt_q

vroomy (-ier, -iest)
adjective
1.
reliant on automobiles as a result of transit sucking balls and/or distances between destinations being great
2.
a condition in which driving is a blast and cars make a heavenly "vroom" sound

Bahahaha! I kind of live in both worlds!

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Originally Posted by mojiferous

Are they building the office portion of this, or is it just going to be the apartments?

Rumor has it that both will be opening around the same time.

EngiNerd · #**6946** Posted **Jan 8, 2016, 9:20 PM**

Anyone know what is going up at 27th and Alcott near La Loma? Denver projects site says a 14 story multi-residential building with 734 units, is that right? That's huge, even bigger than 17W/Pivot!

PLANSIT · #**6947** Posted **Jan 8, 2016, 9:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by EngiNerd

Anyone know what is going up at 27th and Alcott near La Loma? Denver projects site says a 14 story multi-residential building with 734 units, is that right? That's huge, even bigger than 17W/Pivot!

Yes, that's correct.

EngiNerd · #**6948** Posted **Jan 8, 2016, 9:52 PM**

Any renderings out there that we have seen?

I was also reading of a rezone attempt next to the 41st and Fox station from industrial zoning to C-MX-20. Would be a good catalyst for potential redevelopment of that area. That area has the potential to become another Prospect.

PLANSIT · #**6949** Posted **Jan 8, 2016, 10:02 PM**

Updated rendering of 9th + Colorado:

Source

transistor · #**6950** Posted **Jan 8, 2016, 10:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by PLANSIT

Updated rendering of 9th + Colorado:

Whoa, that looks really nice. I'm even willing to forgive that there are so many parking garages.

RyanD · #**6951** Posted **Jan 8, 2016, 10:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by transistor

I'm even willing to forgive that there are so many parking garages.

How else are people supposed to get there? Traffic is always a nightmare and taking a bus in that corridor literally doubles your travel time, if you're riding on a good day.

EngiNerd · #**6952** Posted **Jan 8, 2016, 10:44 PM**

And you will never know those parking garages are even there once its built (except for the one they are leaving in place on 11th ave.), unless you take a drone view.

bunt_q · #**6953** Posted **Jan 8, 2016, 10:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by RyanD

How else are people supposed to get there?

transistor · #**6954** Posted **Jan 8, 2016, 11:24 PM**

I like cars as much as the next person, I was just hoping they would bury the garages.

Matt · #**6955** Posted **Jan 9, 2016, 12:34 AM**

What's the deal with the podium on 999? The glass looks kinda 1970s. Did they originally want to use lava rock but deem it too expensive? Very heavy vibes of the Executive Tower (sorry, Auraria Student Housing) in this development.

Sometimes I swear Denver's ultimate dream is to be the capital city for the Sand People of Tatooine, vintage 1970s, building everything out of sand, mud, and beige rocks. There's simply no post-modern cosmopolitan elegance in any of our designs.

DenverPoke · #**6956** Posted **Jan 9, 2016, 12:58 AM**

^^^thats an old rendering and not what is being built.

Cirrus · #**6957** Posted **Jan 9, 2016, 1:00 AM**

Good because I'm with Matt on this one. Having a garage is fine, but that garage ignores the past 25 years of urban design lessons. The glass is OK, but the bare concrete isn't.

CastleScott · #**6958** Posted **Jan 9, 2016, 3:28 AM**

[QUOTESometimes I swear Denver's ultimate dream is to be the capital city for the Sand People of Tatooine, vintage 1970s, building everything out of sand, mud, and beige rocks. There's simply no post-modern cosmopolitan elegance in any of our designs. ][/QUOTE]

I wholeheartly agree Matt, I think sometimes Denver can be considered the newer version of the Flintstones Bedrock- heck they even light the buildings here in Sacramento better than back home!!

bunt_q · #**6959** Posted **Jan 9, 2016, 4:59 AM**

I rather like this project. Yay Colotecture. Not sure why anybody would think a rental project would look like anything but a Jawa sandcrawler... Plenty of Denber fugly to go around. This isn't even on the list.

lumos · #**6960** Posted **Jan 9, 2016, 12:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by bunt_q

I rather like this project. Yay Colotecture. Not sure why anybody would think a rental project would look like anything but a Jawa sandcrawler... Plenty of Denber fugly to go around. This isn't even on the list.

I have only seen the word colotecture used on this forum; I assume that it pertains to colours inspired by the colon.