The Hyatt Place / Hyatt House project is making great progress. Since our update in August, the structure has risen significantly and the facade is starting to make its way up.
The building is now up to 16-stories with five more to go. Here are two shots looking down 14th Street and Glenarm Street. It’s amazing what kind of impact this project is already having on the 14th Street corridor.
Here are two views of the project we haven’t seen in the rendering. I was surprised to see the building ‘L’ shaped.
The Hyatt House / Hyatt Place should top out within the next few weeks. We will check back in around then!
That is one ugly wall. Nothing can fix this POS.
Thanks again for this and all your great photos and descriptions, Ryan !
Horrible, horrible blank wall. Hoping something gets built in my lifetime to cover that thing up, but I’m not holding my breath…
If Hyatt didn’t thinkthat something would be built then I’m sure they would have added windows. I’m sure that advertising will be put on it until that happens.
Thanks for the update. Hoping that blank wall signifies there’s something slated for the lot next door.
(just hoping)
Ryan you also covered the old DPS building next door that is getting a redo! I love the back of the building now!
As far as the blank wall. I just shrug. Someday, maybe someday it will get covered up by another building.
Any chance they will put billboards up or hire a urban wall artist? No me gusta!
Amazing canvas for a giant mural. #hecox
I agree. The blank walls are terrible.
This will help fill a huge need for housing walking distance from the Big Blue Bear. (I work in the meetings/events industry).
Although that blank giant wall space is hideous. We need another giant pencil or some large painting to make it “cool enough” for the locals.
I agree with all of the comments above about the awful blank wall. Regardless of whether something is built next to it eventually or not, it’s inexcusable. I’m definitely not impressed with the White Lodging buildings in downtown Denver. They are generic beige stucco structures that add nothing interesting to our skyline.
Look at any urban development, if there is ever a possibility that a building can be built directly next to it, they are not going to put windows or any sort of design element only to see it get covered shortly therafter. Would you spend $2 million of additional money to make a cool wall with windows and design elements? You have remember that investors actually do have to pay for these buildings and it would be a waste. BTW, this is a precast building, not stucco, way different product from a performance and longevity standpoint.
Having worked for a hotel on 14th St, I am acutely aware of how important mountain views are to guests booking rooms (which, for what it’s worth, I find extremely overrated). So, it’s interesting to me would leave a North-Western facing wall windowless unless there was a specific purpose for it. Otherwise, they’re mitigating a major selling point for their property.
I think some follow-up is in order with the developer. We might find out about a new project next door.
Before the developer is pilloried for the blank wall, it is clear they made the decision to build to the property line, which perhaps was necessary to make the project work financially. If you are building to the property line, you are required by the fire code to have no openings.
Exactly. Plus, any development on the two parcels fronting 13th will cover up the walls from most angles. Plus, this is kind of the ass end of the CBD and this isn’t that bad of a building for this area.
PLUS… nearly every city I have ever been to has PLENTY of blank walls such as this. And yes, I am talking about NYC, SF, Chicago, Boston, etc. They may not be pretty, but they are a fact of life in evolving cities. Examples from a Google image search: https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2485/4205463050_651db3da10.jpg http://boweryalliance.org/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/SRies-E-mailSizeStreetscape.6752304_std.jpg Even Paris, with Haussmann’s tightly regulated building and floor heights, has the occasional blank wall at the lot line.
Of course brick walls are inherently more attractive than precast or EIFS, but that’s a WHOLE other issue that is largely in the hands of the Architecture profession, not planning or development. Heck, many of the painted signs in LoDo everybody loves so much are painted on blank party walls, they just happen to be old and made of brick so modern people think they’re pretty.
20 stories may be pushing it a bit I’ll admit, but it isn’t out of the question that a neighboring 20 story building could be put there someday.
I’d love to know more about the DPS administration building reno next door