The Cosmopolitan Club is set to break ground in February! The Cosmopolitan Club project is a 264-suite, 7-story, assisting living senior facility planned for the corner of Little Raven and 15th Street in Downtown’s booming Central Platte Valley. Originally known as Archstone Riverfront Park Phase 2 (see Project #15 on the Central Platte Valley neighborhood page), the project was originally planned as more apartments like Archstone’s first phase across 15th Street (now known as The Station at Riverfront Park). The latest information about the project was reported in Saturday’s Rocky Mountain News by John Rebchook. Here’s the article: Seniors to Get Riverfront Digs.

Even though the project will now be developed by Balfour and not Archstone, the building’s general layout is essentially the same. The project consists of three building sites: the vacant lot at the corner of 15th and Little Raven, the vacant lot next to the Riverfront Tower at Little Raven and Bassett Circle, and the vacant lot at 15th and the railroad tracks. The Cosmopolitan Club building will span over Bassett Circle not once, but twice, to connect the three sites into a single edifice. Additionally, the plan also allows the building to wrap around the historic Moffat Depot, which will finally get its long-overdue renovation as part of the development.

To see how this will all look, here’s a high-resolution version of the artist’s rendering that appeared in the Rocky Mountain News article, along with a photo of a model of the project (thanks to John Rebchook for providing these images). Click and expand to view at full size:

This project is really going to make 15th Street feel nice and dense. It’s already a great urban street, with the Gates HQ, the ArtHouse Townhomes and the Station at Riverfront Park apartments creating a nice street wall. The Cosmopolitan Club’s presence will really anchor the key Little Raven/15th Street corner and give the whole Riverfront Park area a stronger feeling of completeness. Now if we could only get something to happen with the dilapidated building on the opposite corner of 15th and Little Raven, site of Ray Suppa’s long-planned Confluence at Cherry Creek condo project…