Remember the Queen song from the 1980s… Another One Bites the Dust? In Downtown Denver, ’tis the season for surface parking lots biting the dust. The largest parking lot fronting the 16th Street Mall, at 16th and Blake, should be biting it later this month. The Sugar3 project planned by Urban Villages for that corner has a spiffy new website (www.sugar3.net) up and running. Like a good infill project website should, the Sugar3 website has a simple interface, floorplans for each level, project renderings, a project schedule, info about the developers, and other features… all without annoying music or silly images of “happy urban people doing happy urban things” floating around the screen. Good job, Urban Villages!
Of note is the project schedule, which indicates that groundbreaking is still planned for September 2006, and key milestone dates including: Excavation complete in November, underground parking complete in February 2007, and structure top-out in August 2007. Let’s hope that their schedule holds true and that later this month the slab of asphalt at 16th and Blake will be going away forever.
A few other major Downtown parking lots planned for elimination this coming fall/winter include the ones at 16th and Champa (Spire) and 18th and Market (1800 Market Residences).
