The 15-story triangle-shaped office tower at 1800 Glenarm in Downtown Denver is slated to be converted into the Mondrian City Homes residences. This project was announced in September and it’s not an infill project per se, but it is a notable Downtown Denver development, so I’m finally blogging about it.

The 1800 Glenarm office tower was built in 1980 and is located on the tiny triangular Block 193 bounded by Glenarm, 18th Street, and Broadway. The small site results in floorplates of only about 4,200 SF in size. The plan is for the Mondrian to feature just one residence per floor, with units starting over $1,000,000 each. The project will also include an automated parking system beneath the building.

Here’s what the tower will look like once converted:

The project is being developed by Erik Osborn, developer of the One Lincoln Park project about a block away that is nearing its ultimate 32-story height. Across Broadway from the Mondrian site are several blocks covered mostly by surface parking lots that may be developed by Osborn as future phases of his Lincoln Park project. For more on this project, here’s an article by John Rebchook at the Rocky Mountain News from September.

While I would prefer to see a higher number of residential units in a project like this, the Mondrian is still a positive indication of Downtown’s growth and revitalization, and the tower’s renewed exterior will help spice up the skyline in that part of Downtown.