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To celebrate the tower’s progress, here’s an awesome photo, courtesy of Vicki from the Uptown district, of One Lincoln Park and our nicely densifying Downtown area:
Back last fall I obtained this rendering of the proposed new State of Colorado Office Building planned for the corner of Colfax and Lincoln, but I was told at the time that the project was on hold until the State figured out where to build the new Colorado History Museum, so I held off on posting it. The project is one component of the State’s plans to reshuffle office space around the Capitol Complex, including the construction of its new Colorado Judicial Center at 14th and Broadway/Lincoln. Hopefully, funding for all of these projects will be finalized during this year’s General Assembly which just got underway. Anyway, here’s the rendering, even though there’s still the possibility that a.) the project won’t happen or, b.) the design may change. Either way, this rendering, courtesy of David Tryba Architects, shows a pretty sharp-looking building where there’s currently a parking lot. I like how the new building connects to the existing state office building at Colfax and Sherman through a common atrium. I’d love to see this one get built.
The Hilton Garden Inn currently under construction at the corner of 14th and Welton (Block 172) is coming along nicely. In case you don’t get Downtown too often, here’s a photo taken a few days ago:
Now, what about that Embassy Suites and Homewood Suites hotel project that is supposed to go up along Stout Street? We haven’t heard squat about that project in quite some time now. The old Motor Garage at the site hasn’t been demolished yet either. The project consists of a 30-story Embassy Suites at the corner of 14th and Stout and a 22-story Homewood Suites adjacent to it further up the block towards 15th Street. It’s being developed by Whiteco, a big corporate hotel developer out of Indiana. Anybody heard anything about this project lately?
Then there’s the Best Western at the corner of 15th and Stout, another project that’s been floating out there for over a year now. The project went through development review with the city quite a while ago, and since then, nothing. Probably looking for financing.
The “W” and the hotel planned for the Museum Residences both look like they’re still likely to be underway before the end of the year. Trump doesn’t have a site yet, so his hotel/residential project is a year… probably two, from a groundbreaking.
Then there’s the Four Seasons. Let’s just say they’re pacing themselves.
In the end, having all these hotels open at staggered intervals over the next five years is probably a good thing for the Downtown hotel market, but it sure makes it tough on those of us who are impatient to see those dastardly parking lots disappear.
