A new office tower is proposed for 15th Street between Welton and California in central Downtown Denver.

The Patrinely Group, headquartered in Houston, is currently planning a 606,500-square foot, 32-story office tower for across 15th Street from the Hyatt Regency Denver Convention Center Hotel. The project is named Block 162 for the site’s block number on the original plat map of Boyd’s East Denver survey of 1859. I’ve had a lot to say about Block 162 on this blog and, in a future post, I’ll update the saga of the block’s redevelopment that has led us to this point.

Here is a Google Earth aerial showing the building’s footprint, followed by a rendering (courtesy of Patrinely Group) of the proposed tower within the Downtown Denver skyline:

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The project is still in the pre-application stage with the Denver planning office, so the following images (courtesy of the Patrinely Group) represent preliminary designs only and are subject to further modifications and refinement. The Block 162 redevelopment plan also includes a hotel tower at 16th and California that is shown in the first two renderings below. However, the hotel component is currently not part of Patrinely’s proposed office tower project and is only conceptual at this point.

View looking west with the proposed Block 162 office tower on the left. Center foreground is the intersection of Welton (left) and 16th (right):

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View looking east at the corner of 15th and California. On the left is part of the base of the Hyatt Regency Denver Convention Center Hotel:

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Detailed view of the building lobby at the corner of 15th and California:

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The proposed tower includes three levels of below-grade parking, ground-floor lobby and café, 10 floors of above-grade parking, and 21 floors of office space above that. Here’s the tower’s stacking diagram followed by the ground-floor plan:

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The 12th floor—the first level above the parking podium—contains a fitness center, social lounge, meeting rooms, an outdoor terrace, and some leaseable office space. Here’s the floor plan followed by a rendering of the outdoor terrace and social spaces:

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Patrinely Group is currently marketing the tower but has not announced a construction schedule, if the tower will be built on a speculative basis, or if a pre-leased minimum is required.

The proposed Block 162 office tower will certain fill a major hole—one of the largest remaining—in Downtown Denver’s urban fabric. That’s good news!