Dairy Block, over in Lower Downtown, is rising quickly! When we visited this project from a bird’s eye view in February, the first floor was complete on the Wazee Street side, with work beginning on the second.

Present day, the office portion, framed with steel, is up two-stories and the hotel portion, framed with concrete, is up five-stories. As with most steel builds, the two cores that will service the office building are up higher than the main structure.

The hotel will top out at seven-stories with the office topping out at five. Because of the different floor to ceiling heights, the two buildings will be close to the same height.

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I think we can all agree that this is already a better view down Wazee Street than what used to be there; a single story parking structure and surface parking. If you look down the alley between Wazee and Blake Street, in the second picture, a bridge connects both sides of the project.

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We never really visited the Blake Street side of this project since it started which is a huge oversight because there is a significant structure now fronting the street! The five-story office building has topped out with the brick facade starting to go in.

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Here is one more photo looking directly at the office building along Blake Street.

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Heading back over to the Wazee Street side, we were able to get a slightly higher view of Dairy block. Here you can see the significant difference of the floor to ceiling heights between the hotel and office portions.

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This is one of the last views I will see of Central Downtown from my trusty Dairy Block viewing perch. However, it will be a great, urban scene once this project is complete.

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Dairy Block adds some significant density to this area of Lower Downtown Denver. A great step forward to eradicating the surface lots scattered throughout Downtown Denver.