A new five-story apartment community, Alexan LoHi, is planned for the corner of West 32nd Avenue and Tejon Street by Trammell Crow Residential.

The site is currently occupied by Dickinson Plaza, a pair of attached neighborhood commercial buildings owned by the Dickinson family since 1900. Henry Dickinson sold the property to Trammell Crow Residential in January 2016 for $6.85 million. In addition to the two commercial buildings, a duplex and a couple of other small structures are also situated on the parcel, which measures approximately 35,500 square feet in area. About half of the parcel is vacant land or surface parking. The parcel is zoned C-MX-5 (C = Urban Center Neighborhood Context, MX = Mixed-Use, 5 = five stories maximum), which is described in the Denver Zoning Code as applicable to “areas or intersections served primarily by collector or arterial streets where a building scale of 1 to 5 stories is desired.”

Below is an aerial image with the site outlined, followed by several photos of the existing structures:

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On the left, view looking northwest at the Dickinson Plaza property; on the right, underutilized center part of the Tejon side of the parcel:

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On the left, view of the corner looking north along Tejon; on the right, close up of the two-story section of the plaza at the far western edge of the property along 32nd:

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According to city records and Trammell Crow Residential, the new Alexan LoHi will have 106 units and 133 parking spaces in a five-story structure, with the average unit size coming in around 787 square feet. The ground floor will include approximately 10,000 square feet of retail space. The following high-resolution renderings are courtesy of the project architect, Denver-based Johnson Nathan Strohe.

Corner view:

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Tejon side of the project with parking garage entry:

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Trammell Crow Residential plans to begin construction in July 2016 with completion expected in December 2017.