Here’s another infill construction update (went photo-taking this past weekend so you’re going to get a bunch of these)… this time, the Inca 29 project in the Prospect district. Prospect is that gritty industrial niche tucked behind Coors Field that is being transformed into a cool Downtown Denver neighborhood where, after buildout, there’ll be over 1,000 residential units plus neighborhood retail. Major projects completed there so far include the Metro apartments, the Jack Kerouac Lofts, the Diamond at Prospect, and the Ajax Lofts… the first in the 7-building Prospect Place project being developed by Urban Neighborhoods, Inc.
(The Prospect district has the distinction of having a little piece of the north-south-east-west metro grid in a part of town dominated by the diagonal Downtown grid. This introduces street names like Inca and Huron into the Central Platte Valley where streets like Bassett and Chestnut are expected. This adds to Prospect’s quirky charm, much like how the only piece of the diagonal Downtown grid west of I-25–Central, Boulder, and Erie Streets–adds to the intrigue of the Highland area. For more on Denver’s colliding street grids, check out my Special Feature on how Downtown Denver’s streets and blocks came to be laid out.)
Inca 29 (full name is Inca 29 Urban Brownstones) consists of 28 units located at the corner of W. 29th Avenue and Inca Street. Construction should be completed later in 2007. Here’s the artist’s rendering, followed by the update photo from this weekend.
