The proposed Embassy Suites hotel project on Block 138 in Downtown Denver filed its building permit application with the city on February 14. Sign-offs on the various permit categories like mechanical, electrical, structural, etc. all still have to occur, which usually takes several months, but it is good to finally see this project moving forward.
I recently complained about this slow-moving project and the lack of information about it provided to the public. We still don’t know much about the project, but at least it appears to be making progress. The last information I heard was that it was still planned at 250 rooms in a 20-story building, but who knows if that is still accurate? Either way, it will be nice to see the Alpine Demolition equipment and rubble removed and a real construction site take its place.
Ken, I saw a drill rig preparing a bore hole yesterday at the site, probably doing some geotechnical investigation for the structural engineers.
I must have missed the rig, since I still just see a cat sitting there in front of the Alpine Demo sign. Why are those guys advertising their work? They've left rubble there for what, going on 6 months now?
Another hotel is being planned near the Colorado Convention Center.
Denver-based Focus Property Group wants to build a 22-story hotel on what's now a surface parking lot at 14th and Stout streets, across from the convention center.
The surface lot would be replaced by a seven-story, above-ground parking garage with 7,500 square feet of retail on the first level, making the entire structure 29 stories.
Focus Property Group owns the 25,000-square-foot surface lot and has hired Hospitality Real Estate Consultants (HREC) to find a developer to build the 400-room, $100 million upscale hotel.
Everyone keeps complaining about Alpine and the "pile of rubble." I went by there finally last weekend, and what I saw wasn't rubble but salvaged architectural pieces–art deco terracotta, irreplaceable in 2008–that I presume the developer is saving to re-use in the hotel, or to sell to the highest bidder. Are we talking about the same thing?
histormystery, you must have only looked in the W corner of the lot, or there was snow out there. The rest of the lot is an expanse of rubble, surrounded by cheap fencing.