The Confluence, a 34-story, 288-unit apartment project, is quickly going up! After almost a year and a half of underground work, the tower is starting to rise above everything in the Central Platte Valley.
Even though this isn’t going to be an in depth update, these two pictures tell the tale. The low-rise building, at the intersection of 15th and Little Raven Street, is currently up three stories with two more to go. The main high-rise building is up eight stories with 26 more to go; approximately three times taller than what you see below . This is going to be one tall project!
When we swing around to visit The Confluence again, we will start to see what kind of impact the 34-story tower will have on the Denver skyline.
While I am on board with filling in parking lots and the densification of downtown Denver, I must I say that this project’s height (high rise portion)is way out of scale for the location. It has already stolen the view of downtown Denver from Confluence Park and has taken away the open feel of the park. I am sorry, but I do not like it! The height should have been limited so the downtown view could have been preserved. It is IN-YOUR-FACE when you are at the park.
Anything built that is taller than a 1 or 2 stories would have blocked the view of downtown Denver from Confluence Park. The part of downtown that contributes the majority of the skyline is just too far away.
This building is only two blocks away from the glass house, a 23 story high rise with a much larger footprint. I do not believe that this building is out of place. It will make a huge impact on the growing Denver skyline.
Grossly out of proportion for the neighborhood, but in such a cool location and a great looking building. I’m excited and apprehensive at the same time!
Personally, I don’t see how anyone thinks this is out of scale given it’s just blocks from Downtown. It’s no different than the Park Avenue tower in Uptown. The Commons / Confluence Park area is huge, and I don’t see how this one smaller-footprint, slender tower is going to have an ‘in-your-face’ presence and completely ruin the view from the park. If anything, it should add to the whole, ‘hey we are in an urban park’ feel.
These towers that extend our skyline are really neat and we don’t get them much in our fair city; just like how Country Club towers will do the same between Cherry Creek and Downtown. But that’s just my opinion. Picture for Uptown reference:
I agree. This will extend the skyline quite a bit. If it were built in the core of downtown, it would barely be noticeable.
Technically the downtown core is a 3 mile radius from a focus.
it’s not that much taller than the 23 story Glasshouse and the new apartment building across the street from it, and by far the best and highest use of that land.
The better question is why isn’t everything in Union Station this height?
Exactly. Even if this building is out of place (which it’s not) it’s only because so many of the surrounding buildings were limited by arbitrary height limits. The height limits in the CPV have never made any sense to me. Denver Union Station, once all of the proposed rail lines are complete, will be a massive downtown transit hub of a major city – one of the largest transit hubs in the country. Market forces would call for greater density and the station and its surrounding neighborhood would ultimately be even more successful without the arbitrary limit on density.
This is going to a great addition to the neighborhood. It’ll look great driving north on Speer and the views will be impressive. I’d love to see a development like this go in the vacant blocks between the CBD and the Auroria campus.
So excited to see this one rise! What a great building to extend our skyline and make a huge impact from the park. I think the height is not out of scale given how slender it is.
I’ve been recording time lapse videos of this project from my condo.
Here’s the progress from 4/10/2016 through 5/19/2016 compressed into one minute:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21093216/2016%2004-10%20-%202016%2005-19_superfast.mp4
Very cool! I hope you can post videos in the future. Thanks for sharing
That is neat! When the whole project is finished, maybe we could post the video on DenverInfill if you’re willing.
You got it. I’ll keep the camera rolling and will be in touch when I have a more complete video.
Wonderful!
I like how the cranes stop moving during each storm, and then as soon as the weather clears they start wiggling around again.
Wait….288 APARTMENTS!? I thought this was going to be a condo project!
Still a nice tower, but that’s a huge buzzkill IMO.
That video is killer, and so is the view. Most underrated b building in downtown is The Delganey. 😉
We’re actually in Monarch Mills Lofts. 🙂
Walking by the other day I felt the tower rising above and will be interested in the completed project. If I was able to afford to be a resident in this tower, this would be my ideal spot. Right next to a couple of parks and a walkable community. Question – if this is extending the downtown skyline – when will we see other towers of similar height go up closer to this one? I would say the Uptown tower doesn’t stand out as much in Ryan’s photo as it blends in with the skyline. The design of this tower is much better than others we have seen, but feel that there are many open parking lots available elsewhere closer to the core as well. I welcome it regardless, but I will ponder what may come next for the area to compliment the tower down the road.
One day, Elitch’s will get an offer it can’t refuse and this kind of height will become more common place. Sure, it might take twenty years, but eventually the real estate will become much too valuable to allot for a function that doesn’t operate for seven months out of the year. My guess is the vultures start circling once Union Station is filled up.
I am much more in favor of letting Elitch’s stay for a while and infilling all of the lots surrounding the Pepsi Center. There is a huge underutilization of land! There is also the lots along Water Street and those lots straddling Cherry Creek between downtown and the Auraria Campus. All prime places for high density infill.
I have heard that Elitch’s could go one day. Love the idea of that and possible redevelopment of the area. It sure would make a great carless neighborhood if done right. The anticipation will just build until that day comes.