DENVER | Main Development Thread #6

[BG918]

Originally Posted by comoneymaker

Green crane for University and Harvard. Do we have a rendering for this project?

Here you go, 2450 S University, courtesy of Denver Urban Review:


There is another apartment project going up at University and Iliff but I haven't seen a rendering for that one. I don't think it's mixed-use like 2450..

[comoneymaker]

Also off Asbury and Josephine. That one is supposed to be 5 stories but I don't think it will get a crane as they are making it a POS matchstick appartments.

[comoneymaker]

I did some more digging cause the DPAC is going to be huge for Denver as long as it doesn't get nerfed.







And a bunch new renderings here. I don't know how to pull images from a PDF.

http://artsandvenuesdenver.com/images/files/Next_Stage_Public_14_Oct_2015-lr.pdf

[trubador]

Originally Posted by bunt_q

There was also an Orchard Town Center, or something similar, that sold up in the Westminster area last year. It was an over $100 million sale, widely reported. So it could be up there as well. (The Whole Foods also makes more sense up there.)

no it is definitely not up in Westminster. The Orchard is 144th and I-25 and pretty built out with 2 and 3 story apartments. This project just doesn't fit that area which still has so many acres of undeveloped land.

[Cirrus]

Wouldn't you know it, supply and demand works.

Originally Posted by CityObservatory.org

In some cities, the housing construction boom is starting to pay off

After a surge of new construction in Denver, vacancy rates shot up from 5 to 6.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015. As a result, median rents—which had grown by nearly $250 a month from the first to the third quarter of the year—fell by $7 in the last quarter.

In fact, this is a national story. Overall apartment construction, which has struggled to keep up with the growing demand for rental units, surged by over 20 percent in 2015—and rent growth slowed to 3.3 percent in December, and is projected by Zillow to fall to 1.1 percent by the end of 2016.

[mr1138]

Just a guess, I have this on no authority, but I wonder if it could be the gigantic under-developed hexagonal super block right next to the Orchard LR station. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6137798,-104.8958334,1691m/data=!3m1!1e3 I have long thought this would be an amazing redevelopment opportunity. For that matter some developer could have bought up almost any of the 60s-70s era office blocks in that general region. It would make sense for that area to redevelop over time. It could actually amount to a respectable neighborhood if everything between the Landmark development and Orchard Rd to the south were to transform.

[EngiNerd]

Originally Posted by mr1138

Just a guess, I have this on no authority, but I wonder if it could be the gigantic under-developed hexagonal super block right next to the Orchard LR station. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6126518,-104.8987352,1129m/data=!3m1!1e3 I have long thought this would be an amazing redevelopment opportunity. For that matter some developer could have bought up almost any of the 60s-70s era office blocks in that general region. It would make sense for that area to redevelop over time. It could actually amount to a respectable neighborhood if everything between the Landmark development and Orchard Rd to the south were to transform.

It very well could be that block:

Triad office complex in Greenwood Village sells for $46 million
Oct 30, 2015, 3:30pm MDT

Triad at Orchard Station, a three-building office park in Greenwood Village, has sold to a partnership for $46.6 million, according to public records.

The 414,824-square-foot office complex is located at 5660, 5670 and 5680 Greenwood Plaza Blvd. on a 22-acre site. It was purchased by a partnership of SteelWave Acquisitions LLC of Denver and Stockbridge Capital of San Francisco on Oct. 16.

....

http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/r...-complex-in-greenwood-village-sells.html

I also know the empty land directly south of the Landmark is supposed to be developed...It was going to be homes originally back when the Landmark was developed, but that all fell through when it was found the developer was embezzling. Could be that they want to develop that one now, and would make sense for a Whole Foods there with the Landmark being right next door.

EDIT: Nevermind, just townhomes. http://www.villagerpublishing.com/75115/...0-luxury-townhomes-in-greenwood-village/

[RyanD]

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[Denver]

I was driving down Brighton Blvd today and noticed two things
1) the site for the industry apts has been fenced off and it looks like they are moving some dirt around

2) the industry parking garage/addition has been completed and opened (hence the closing of the parking lot). I know we bitch about design a lot here but holy Sh*t this was a bad looking project. I get the industrial look they were going for, but the bare parking garage looks horrible. It is just concrete with a little bi too metal for decoration. I do not expect a parking garage to be a work of art, but this just complete detracts from the overall project.

[EngiNerd]

Originally Posted by Denver

I was driving down Brighton Blvd today and noticed two things
1) the site for the industry apts has been fenced off and it looks like they are moving some dirt around

2) the industry parking garage/addition has been completed and opened (hence the closing of the parking lot). I know we bitch about design a lot here but holy Sh*t this was a bad looking project. I get the industrial look they were going for, but the bare parking garage looks horrible. It is just concrete with a little bi too metal for decoration. I do not expect a parking garage to be a work of art, but this just complete detracts from the overall project.

I saw the original rendering for this thing, and it looked a whole lot better than it does now. They must have had some serious "value engineering" happen because I agree it looks pretty awful as is. Hopefully they aren't done with the skin.

[Dogpatch]

Great images Ryan! I always enjoy your flying machine pics.

[lumos]

So, Ryan, tell us about your new UAV, pictures looking awfully sharp.

[RyanD]

Originally Posted by Dogpatch

Great images Ryan! I always enjoy your flying machine pics.

Originally Posted by lumos

So, Ryan, tell us about your new UAV, pictures looking awfully sharp.

Thanks guys! So I got the Yuneec Q500 4K. The camera is just fantastic and I get to see everything it sees on the remote instead of guessing with the Phantom + GoPro. It's a bit different flying-wise but I really like it. It's also much bigger.

I feel spoiled that I have 2 quads now...

LEFT: Old guy - DJI Phantom 1.1.1 w/ GoPro mount, Hero 3+ Silver

RIGHT: New guy - Yuneec Q500 4K with CG03 4K / 12mp camera

[transistor]

Has anyone read this piece of shit newspaper that they send out to you if you live in a certain area called the "Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle"? Its the biggest pile of NIMBY garbage I have ever read in my entire life, full of appeals to the poor couples with children who won't move to Denver because of a lack of parking, opinion pieces on trying to fix Colorado Blvd. by adding turning lanes and removing stoplights and all sorts of other garbage. Including monthly opinion pieces by openly racist dudes claiming the Sand Creek Massacre is not worth apologizing for.

It infuriates me everytime it arrives is what I am getting at.

[comoneymaker]

What is more insane is you all are more excited about a stupid whole foods with a few floors of apartments being built out in the DTC than 3 towers that will most likely be the most architecturally significant in all of Colorado.

You should also all know Whole Foods is a NIMBY haven! Having one downtown will only make crap worse. Yet all of you are excited over it....

[Denver Dweller]

http://www.denverrealestatewatch.com/2016/02/02/la-loma-replaced-by-15-story-tower/

[Fritzdude]

Originally Posted by Denver Dweller

http://www.denverrealestatewatch.com/2016/02/02/la-loma-replaced-by-15-story-tower/

Too bad we can't exchange this with the City House.

[wong21fr]

Originally Posted by comoneymaker

What is more insane is you all are more excited about a stupid whole foods with a few floors of apartments being built out in the DTC than 3 towers that will most likely be the most architecturally significant in all of Colorado.

You should also all know Whole Foods is a NIMBY haven! Having one downtown will only make crap worse. Yet all of you are excited over it....

You realize that the DPAC study you're creaming about is just a massing study and that there's no concrete plan for three towers, right? Such a plan, if it happens, is years away. It's less realistic than Tabor 2 right now.

[bunt_q]

Originally Posted by Denver Dweller

http://www.denverrealestatewatch.com/2016/02/02/la-loma-replaced-by-15-story-tower/

Well, Espinoza is opposed, so this must be a good thing.

[EngiNerd]

Originally Posted by comoneymaker

What is more insane is you all are more excited about a stupid whole foods with a few floors of apartments being built out in the DTC than 3 towers that will most likely be the most architecturally significant in all of Colorado.

You should also all know Whole Foods is a NIMBY haven! Having one downtown will only make crap worse. Yet all of you are excited over it....

We're not excited, we're just trying to figure out where that development is, because it looks pretty large.

DPAC is a massing concept, no more at this point....and we know where it's located.