A new development in the popular Jefferson Park district has just been announced: HiVu 29. The project is located on the south side of W. 29th Avenue just west of Eliot Street overlooking Viking Park. HiVu 29 consists of 12 flats and 10 townhomes in a 4-story building. Units range from 775 SF to 1,500 SF and priced from the low $200s to the high $400ks. The project is being developed by Bill and John Seward of HiVu Partners, with BlueSky Studio as the architect. Here’s a rendering of the project, courtesy of BlueSky:
A sales office is currently located at the site. To sign up for more information, please visit the project website: www.HiVu29.com.
Ken, I read in the jefferson park news letter that the pinnacle station project is dead, (former baby doe's and chile pepper site) do you have additional information on the subject? It's sad to see the neighborhood association drive spanos out of the neighborhood…they were really opposed to this project. it might take years before this site gets redeveloped….
I like that building a lot, but I would be annoyed if I was living in one of the single-family homes there. I guess that added density is to be expected in the stadium neighorhood.
Beautiful building – awful name. Hopefully this project never develops into AIDSu 29.
If the Spanos project were dead, that would be something to cheer. Perhaps Spanos will sell to a developer who's serious about building a project that is both urban and fits the neighborhood.
Regardless, if Spanos is leaving, it's not because of the neighborhood association. Spanos has never cared about the association, and the association lacked the political power to kill the Spanos project earlier (despite intense efforts). Nothing has changed about that.
So we don't want duplexes and we don't want multi-family in our "downtown" neighborhoods, let's kill all multi family projects and claim to want the best of urban life. I think the cow town mentality is still present… west highlands is now downgraded to R1 zoning, what's next? East highlands and Jefferson park? Jefferson park association is pushing to downgrade local R3 zoning to prevent developers from redeveloping sites into higher density. what are we preserving here? anybody been in Jefferson park ? I'm sorry but what's the character we are trying to preseve? smally ugly shacks for the most part…
As an avid viewer of this website I greatly appreciate the updates of all projects throughout town. This is of particular interest to me because I live in one of the single family homes on the block where this project is proposed. Will the project be located on the corner of Federal/29th? There is a run-down apartment building on the 29th/Federal corner, but the houses on either side of the apartment building (E/S) are a connected lot. The rendering shows a new entrance onto 29th from this project. I was told that another project, on this block, was shot down because of the use of an ally for parking purposes. Nevertheless, I am excited about positive changes in the neighborhood (more owners and less renters). Also, I wonder if there will be an increase of scrapes in Jefferson Park because of the zoning changes, that are literally across the street in Sloans Lake and Highlands. In response to a previous post about Jefferson Park being a neighborhood of mostly shacks, there are some very nice homes in the neighborhood. I wouldn't trade my updated 1906 Queen Anne for a brand new, poorly built multiplex home. It's a great location and the unique characteristics of an old home, with a modern update, can not be discounted. Though, there are many duplexes/apartments that I would love to see go the way of the 'dozer- some are across the street from me. One can usually tell who rents and who owns in this neighborhood.
Some of you fellas need to get your facts straight. Spanos took the acreage the city vacated to them (appriased by CDOT at $2.1M) added it to the assemblage, raised the square footage cost on the land nearly 20% and sold it to their local partner. Now the expediter, Mr. O'Donnell of Starboard Realty and Planning Board fame is out shopping it around to every merchant big block apartment hack to pocket a few more bucks on the resale of the land. Depending on the buyer, Jefferson Park and the future upper floor residents of RiverClay could really get screwed, as the Councilman failed the neighborhood miserably by passing the rezoning without the safeguard conditions sought but the RNO. Opting instead to rest his laurels on his worthless Good Neighbor Agreement that does not carry over to the new owner. As for down zoning, that boat left long ago, the R-3 that blankets that neighborhood is open for business, and good development is welcome and encouraged. The only exception is the north edge, with some decent housing stock, and the designated structure seen in the rendering above. Problem with developers, they only sit on the crappy properties, and wait for someone else to bite the bullet. Meanwhile, they are invading the more stable R2 areas of Jefferson Park and trying to up zone, despite all of that R3 in waiting. There is a 250-unit proposal that is likely to receive near unanimous support along Speer later this spring. The neighborhood doesn't fear high-density, they just want it to be place in locations consistent with the vision outlined in their 2006 Plan.
A little late to comment on this perhaps, but….
As a resident of West Highlands-but not the area recently re-zoned-I have to object to the above comments about "cow town mentality." That's an old insult that people have been using to describe Denverites for longer than I've been alive (I'm 45). What really happened in West Highlands-which is NOT a near-downtown neighborhood like Highland, and is west of Federal and outside of the bounds of Denverinfill's downtown maps-is that people woke up to the Cherry Creek-ization of the neighborhood going on by developers who have no stake in preserving West Highland's unique historical charm, and put a stop to it. West Highlands is a neighborhood of single-family homes and is designated as an area of stability in Blueprint Denver, and the downzoning, other than pissing off a few libertarians, will help those of us who have invested in West Highlands by buying homes there, to keep its charm relatively intact, in the downzoned areas at least. And I'd add: about 50% of what has been built in place of the scraped houses is pure junk architecturally; 25% is just semi-objectionable, and about 25% contributes real value (and increases nearby property values) through high quality design and materials.
That's a really ugly building. Pulling in and out of parking off Federal will be a real joy. Good to see the Queree House will be preserved. Can't believe the two big, nice, and well-cared-for Queen Anne houses in the middle of the 29 block on Federal will be demolished. If so, must have paid them a lot of money…