On Thursday, February 1, the new Environmental Protection Agengy Region 8 headquarters officially opened for business in their new 9-story, 250,000 square foot building at the corner of 16th and Wynkoop in Lower Downtown Denver. During the month of January, the EPA’s 800 or so Denver headquarters employees moved into the new LEED Silver-certified building. Currently, none of the ground-floor retail spaces have opened yet, but reportedly a Starbucks, a Heidi’s Deli, and a bank are planning on occupying the retail storefronts at this high-profile location along the 16th Street Mall across from Union Station.
The remaining half of this block (Block 013), where construction staging took place for the EPA project, has been fully cleared by developer Opus Northwest, and is now ready for the Hines Corporation to get underway in a month or two on their new 8-story, 300,000 square foot 1515 Wynkoop project. Meanwhile, Opus didn’t have to move their construction gear too far away… just down the street to Block 012 where they’ve already started working on their 345,000 square foot 1400 Wewatta mixed-use project.
Welcome EPA to your new LoDo home!
