Ranko Mocevic, president of Hotel Gold Crown Champa LLC, plans to replace the old Burger King building with a 17-story hotel/condominium tower. Hotel Gold Crown Champa LLC recently closed on the 100’ x 125’ parcel at 15th and Stout. They previously had planned to develop the property with the same dimensions across the alley at 15th and Champa where Tarantula Billiards and a small parking lot are located. Mocevic originally planned to construct the tower at the 15th and Champa corner but decided to move forward with the 15th and Stout site instead as that site provides the opportunity to begin construction sooner. Here’s a closeup of that block:
The proposed 17-story tower would include lobby, restaurant, and other hotel functions on the first and second floors, 264 hotel rooms on Floors 3 through 14, and twelve condominium units (4 per floor) on Floors 15 through 17. Two underground parking levels are also planned. Here are some renderings of the proposed tower, courtesy of OZ Architecture LoDo. (Please note: these renderings were prepared when the tower was originally proposed for 15th and Champa. The tower at 15th and Stout would be a mirror image of the building depicted in these images.)
The colored roof panels serve as a mechanical screen as well as an architectural design element. The developer is planning to seek authorization from the city to allow those panels to be illuminated with slowly-changing colored lights to add interest to the Downtown skyline.
Hotel Gold Crown Champa LLC will be both the developer and hotel operator. The builder is Alfa Design & Construction Inc. and, as mentioned above, OZ Architects LoDo is doing the design.
The developer’s timeline has the project receiving a foundation permit from the city later this summer and completing the tower in 2010.
funny…of course nobody would cite strip clubs as a reason for going to a certain city for a convention…it's one of the "unspoken truths" of the convention business. like it or not…it's how it is.
of course our city is beautiful…where would you recommend we move all of the uses that you deem to be 'less beautiful'?
Your clearly an idiot and you obviously have no idea how business works in this country. Your claims are absolutely ludicrous. I'm glad you aren't in charge. As that area continues to evolve I guarantee you it will be gone.
What's with all the ad hominem attacks? If you have no more to say in regards to your own argument, then don't go on, you've posted what you have to say. Resorting to personal attacks only makes you look childish and discredits any good points you may have made earlier.
My god, people, calm down. Name-calling is uncalled for and degrades the website. Please be civil to each other (or at least be silent if you can't be civil). Jeez!
Christopher: On a blog about the Mixed-Use Tower, you've posted 6 comments about an entirely different building, La Boheme. Can we agree that the city of Denver is big enough to support a variety of different legal enterprises? If that building was in disrepair, I imagine more people would want it removed, but it looks nice and it does well enough to stay in business. If I were the owner, I sure as heck wouldn't move it to a new location. I'd rather see 90% of the other buildings along 15th be renovated or have parking lots go vertical – rather than see La Bo removed. From what I see, they are a positive stakeholder in DT right now and have their niche in "entertaining" a small percentage of convention go-ers. Leave 'em be.
I'm all for leaving the strip clubs. AND..I'm even more for them improving the strippers in those clubs!
Maybe I'll start my own stripper improvement blog called "Denver FillHerIn"?
Sunshine megatron=genius…lol
I'm going to wear a t-shirt at the DNC that says:
"Sunshine Megatron for President"
( sorry, couldn't resist )
Some of the comments in this thread were really childish and rude. Not necessary or appreciated.
But they were funny as shit…
Strippers are people too…and beautiful people at that…let em stay…