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DownhomeDenver · #**1541** Posted **Oct 14, 2014, 4:20 PM**

There was an article about some Denver alleys getting a makeover in the online edition of the Confluence:

http://confluence-denver.com/features/denver_alleys_100814.aspx

rds70 · #**1542** Posted **Oct 14, 2014, 9:22 PM**

From the Colorado Real Estate Journal:

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Metropolitan State University of Denver received State of Colorado funding for the planning of a 142,000 square foot aerospace and engineering sciences building at the Auraria Campus in downtown Denver. The $60 million building will be located on the southwest corner of 7th Street and Auraria Parkway. Construction is scheduled to begin in the fall of 2015, depending on additional funds from the State of Colorado and private donors.

DownhomeDenver · #**1543** Posted **Oct 14, 2014, 10:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by rds70

From the Colorado Real Estate Journal:

So very cool! Auraria just keeps growing and growing!

DownhomeDenver · #**1544** Posted **Oct 14, 2014, 10:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by derek.berardi

It also states that, "Contributing to a Five Points Renaissance,
17 Development Projects to Begin from Fall 2014 to Spring 2015"

According to the landmark preservation commission report there's an additional infill project at 2950 Welton St that is under review. That address points to a vacant lot.

Brock Landers · #**1545** Posted **Oct 15, 2014, 2:50 AM**

Lakewood City Council Passes Construction Defect Reform

derek.berardi · #**1546** Posted **Oct 15, 2014, 4:31 AM**

2950 Welton St
Three story, mixed use building
1500 sq ft of commercial retail on ground floor
Four boutique residential apartment rentals
1 studio (400) 2 one bedrooms (700) 1 two bedroom (1300)
St Bernard Properties LLC

Scottk · #**1547** Posted **Oct 15, 2014, 6:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by DownhomeDenver

So very cool! Auraria just keeps growing and growing!

Auraria will be amazing in another 30 or so years.... once density fully surrounds the campus.

great stuff going on around the campus, and makes speer feel much more urban with all the recent development.

DownhomeDenver · #**1548** Posted **Oct 15, 2014, 2:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by derek.berardi

2950 Welton St
Three story, mixed use building
1500 sq ft of commercial retail on ground floor
Four boutique residential apartment rentals
1 studio (400) 2 one bedrooms (700) 1 two bedroom (1300)
St Bernard Properties LLC

Thanks man, looks like a good project.

fleury · #**1549** Posted **Oct 15, 2014, 3:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by Scottk

Auraria will be amazing in another 30 or so years.... once density fully surrounds the campus.

great stuff going on around the campus, and makes speer feel much more urban with all the recent development.

Not only Speer - Auraria Pkwy is finally getting a nice street wall. Feels so much better driving west to get onto I-25, this new bldg will really help that horrible no-mans land corner on 7th. I feel bad for the students walking across that street when I'm stopped at the red light - they look so exposed with no buildings anywhere nearby.

wong21fr · #**1550** Posted **Oct 15, 2014, 4:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by fleury

Not only Speer - Auraria Pkwy is finally getting a nice street wall. Feels so much better driving west to get onto I-25, this new bldg will really help that horrible no-mans land corner on 7th. I feel bad for the students walking across that street when I'm stopped at the red light - they look so exposed with no buildings anywhere nearby.

The new MSU Denver athletic fields feel like a nice extension of the campus, albeit an incomplete one since that side of the campus is just a sea of parking lots. But once that area fills in it's going to make for a unique urban college experience in Colorado with the light rail, freight trains, viaduct, etc. pushing against and through the campus boundaries.

Now let's just get an on-campus resident student population....

bcp · #**1551** Posted **Oct 15, 2014, 4:18 PM**

^ but that will destroy lincoln park!!!

RyanD · #**1552** Posted **Oct 15, 2014, 7:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by bcp

^ but that will destroy lincoln park!!!

Hey! Worry about your own Lincoln Park traitor!

Interzen · #**1553** Posted **Oct 15, 2014, 9:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by bcp

^ but that will destroy lincoln park!!!

Bring it on

DownhomeDenver · #**1554** Posted **Oct 16, 2014, 2:14 AM**

From the Cherry Creek Perspective, some shit we already knew:

McWhinney plans to begin construction in December on Z Block, a $235 million mixed-use project in LoDo. The complex will occupy the block bounded by 18th, 19th, Blake and Wazee streets and will contain about 220,000 square feet of office and retail space, 30,000 square feet of retail and restaurant uses, a 400-space underground garage and a 170 room hotel. McWhinney is developing Z Block in a joint venture with Grand American, Inc. which owns the property. The project will include restoration of the historic Windsor Dairy Block.

Construction is scheduled to begin this fall on Enviva Cherokee, an 18-story apartment building at 1250 Cherokee Street in the Golden Triangle neighborhood south of downtown Denver. The developers are Charter Realty Group of Denver and Integral Group of Atlanta. The building will contain 274 units.

The owner of the historic Rossonian Building in Five Points is finalizing plans to redevelop the property. The current concept calls for a 120 room hotel, 35 to 40 condominium units, two restaurants and retail space. Sage Hospitality may join the project to operate the hotel. The building was constructed in 1912 and was once home to a famous jazz club. The property is now owned by Civil Technology.

The founders of several Denver co-working spaces plan to open Stride, a collaborative office complex at 38th Street and Brighton Boulevard in north Denver. Jason and Ellen Winkler are converting a warehouse into office space for health technology companies. Stride will also serve as the center for Prime Health Collaborative, an organization of health care administrators and professionals. The Winklers expect the project to be completed in the fall of 2015.

TakeFive · #**1555** Posted **Oct 16, 2014, 4:27 AM**

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Originally Posted by wong21fr

If it does happen (and ol' Bob ends up sitting in the governor's mansion), I look forward to the Brownback experiment coming to Colorado and the complete destruction of the state government over the next 2-4 years.

Kansas could certainly be the poster child for the risk of playing in the "Race to the Bottom."

I've got a longer comment (hehe) in the back of my mind if I can ever find the time. Not about politics so much as.... wait for it.

TakeFive · #**1556** Posted **Oct 16, 2014, 4:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by CPVLIVE

A couple quick updates on a few projects. Most were taken a couple of weeks back.

Residences at the Gardens

Thank you, Thank you!!
I recently tried to do a search for this but didn't know the name, couldn't find anything and figured it never happened. Silly me. It's awesome.

BTW, I love your work on historic Denver Schools.

TakeFive · #**1557** Posted **Oct 16, 2014, 5:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by DownhomeDenver

There was an article about some Denver alleys getting a makeover in the online edition of the Confluence:

http://confluence-denver.com/features/denver_alleys_100814.aspx

That was a good, fun read. Thanks!

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Originally Posted by wong21fr

The new MSU Denver athletic fields feel like a nice extension of the campus, albeit an incomplete one since that side of the campus is just a sea of parking lots. But once that area fills in it's going to make for a unique urban college experience in Colorado with the light rail, freight trains, viaduct, etc. pushing against and through the campus boundaries.

Now let's just get an on-campus resident student population....

Well Stated.
What I've wanted.

Shake My Booty
So many great updates. Updated renderings and photos. I learned about the Sexy Six. Fun fun stuff. Thanks to all.

giphy.com

TakeFive · #**1558** Posted **Oct 16, 2014, 6:20 AM**

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Originally Posted by EngiNerd

This is why DTC is still the greatest threat to commercial development downtown....1.8 million sq. ft.! Though they say transit oriented, this is definitely just transit adjacent, there is zero orientation toward the transit.
http://insiderealestatenews.com/2014/10/...st-development-in-centennial/#more-33841

Recently I've spent too much time trying to get to as many cities as I could at the various "Business Journal" sites. There's 43 different cities. Once you get into a site you can easily spend an hour or two or even more depending on number of links clicked on. It does provide a great perspective on what is going on around the country.

When you look ahead two to three decades this is not such a big deal and Denver Metro needs alternatives like this in order to compete on a broader scale. Growing density along the SE corridor is natural and better here than many other less attractive options.

Being a "regionalism" guy I don't worry about this. They point out it could take 20-25 years to build out. I do like the density. Arbitrarily, I figure anything inside of "470" should also have synergy with downtown.

I trust that downtown will still get its share of office space. More importantly downtown will remain the hub for professional sports and presumably cultural arts and museums, Elitch Gardens, Convention Center events etc. Inside "470" is still relatively close compared to many other metro areas. Let the densification spread. It's why the investment in transit will look better 20 years from now.

jubguy3 · #**1559** Posted **Oct 16, 2014, 2:08 PM**

As a salt laker, i envy the fact that you can expand rapidly without building in a lake / mountain /Freeway / mine /Canyon / waterfowl

EngiNerd · #**1560** Posted **Oct 16, 2014, 3:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by TakeFive

Recently I've spent too much time trying to get to as many cities as I could at the various "Business Journal" sites. There's 43 different cities. Once you get into a site you can easily spend an hour or two or even more depending on number of links clicked on. It does provide a great perspective on what is going on around the country.

When you look ahead two to three decades this is not such a big deal and Denver Metro needs alternatives like this in order to compete on a broader scale. Growing density along the SE corridor is natural and better here than many other less attractive options.

Being a "regionalism" guy I don't worry about this. They point out it could take 20-25 years to build out. I do like the density. Arbitrarily, I figure anything inside of "470" should also have synergy with downtown.

I trust that downtown will still get its share of office space. More importantly downtown will remain the hub for professional sports and presumably cultural arts and museums, Elitch Gardens, Convention Center events etc. Inside "470" is still relatively close compared to many other metro areas. Let the densification spread. It's why the investment in transit will look better 20 years from now.

I don't worry about it too much, in fact I think Downtown is more way competitive in attracting businesses today than it has been in the last 30 years with the rail hub and general quality of life being downtown. DTC really took off in the 80s and 90s because Downtown wasn't really a place people wanted to be, and families especially didn't want to live anywhere near downtown. However, it seems to be trending that people to like to live a lot closer to work thee days, and DTC just doesn't have that availability like Downtown does (though they themselves are beginning to get quite a bit of residential infill)

But don't doubt that the DTC still does a pretty good job drawing businesses away from Downtown, and it absolutely has an effect on the growth of Downtown, but whether or not that is a bad thing, well I guess that's up for opinion