Another major Lower Downtown project under construction is Opus Northwest’s 1400 Wewatta project on Block 012. This development consists of two buildings, a 9-story office building along Wewatta and a 10-story office/residential building along Wynkoop, connected by underground and structured parking and ground-floor retail. Currently, the Wynkoop building has about a 5-floor head start on the Wewatta building:
 
Opus has a website devoted to tracking the project’s construction, and a page on their corporate website about the project too. Here is what the project will look like when completed:
 
1400 Wewatta should be finished this fall.
What a great addition this project is to Lodo. Most of that lot was a sea of asphalt before this project started. I can't tell from the picture, but will the Wewatta building go to the corner of 15th? Based on the construction I have seen thus far, it doesn't look like it.
I'm curious…Does anyone know what the small bridges running across the creek were originally used for? Rail? Cars? Carriages? Anyway, it's nice to see that they have been preserved.
Agreed. I love the old bridges.
I'm a fan of the building on the Wynkoop side, too.
Trains, both commercial and for travel.
Most of what is Central Platte Valley now was Denver's rail yards.
My dentist's office used to be in Union Station when I was a kid and his window looked out onto a sea of rail lines and the now demolished bridges that use to span out of Downtown over them.
I swear I saw the crane moving on the Spire this afternoon! I was stopped at the light at 15th and looked over to see it swiveling about! Any news?
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I think at 15th/Wewatta, SW corner, there's a greenish 4 or 5 story condo, built 8 or 10 years ago.
Anon 9:46: They move the crane about once a week, probably just to keep it oiled. Though I saw them do it three times within the past five days.
Inside sources indicate that Nichols will close on a new construction loan next week. We could see that spire crane moving for real by Feb 1!
I'm happy that this project brings a finished edge to the Cherry Creek side. I really wish we had a better edge of downtown in the LoDo vicinity. I'd think those lots would be great for restaurants with river and views, but right now there are mostly parking lots.
Didn't "inside sources" say they would restart construction during last December?
COOL!!! I took the suggestion of blogger on the Jan. 9th blogg and checked out — skyscraperpage.com. There's a thread on the main page about Denver, pretty upbeat. Plus the pics are great, i.e. the pics for the tabor two tower and a pic of a new hotel condo project for Colorado Springs, man are they ripe for something stimulating.
Everyone needs to closely inspect the lower right-hand rendering. There are nice green trees lining 1400 Wewatta's property. But then there is some snow down by the creek! What season is this supposed to be…
I just thought it amusing. 😉
Saint, the construction world is full of delays and false starts. Fret not, we should see construction start soon.
Green trees and snow on the ground in Colorado? That would be late April to mid May. Happens all the time. Anyone remember all the trees destroyed a few years back by that huge snowstorm – lumber down everywhere.