Brookfield Properties, owner of Denver’s tallest building, Republic Plaza, is moving forward with plans for a major new office tower, 1501 Tremont Place, located along 15th between Glenarm and Tremont behind the Denver Pavilions on Block 196.

The project is a 34-story, 494′ tall tower containing a total of 730,000 square feet of Class A office space. The building’s program includes two levels of underground parking, a two-story lobby with ground-floor retail, seven additional stories of structured parking, 26 stories of office space, topped with a 30′ tall mechanical penthouse. The project architect is Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Here are a couple of renderings, courtesy of Brookfield and SOM:

The perspective on the left is taken from roughly the corner of 15th and Welton, look east at the corner of 15th and Glenarm. Visible on the left edge of the image is the Pavilions bridge over Glenarm where the Wolfgang Puck restaurant used to be. Visible on the right edge are the two buildings that make up the Sheraton Hotel.

The perspective on the right is taken from about half way between Welton and Glenarm at Colfax, overlooking the Emily Griffith Opportunity School and the Crowne Plaza Hotel (formerly Holiday Inn) and other buildings.

The distinctive angled edge of the tower is mirrored on the opposite corner of the building not visible in these perspectives, at 16th and Tremont. The project also includes a pedestrian passageway from the second level of the Pavilions into the lobby area of the new office tower.

Brookfield owns not only the project site behind the Pavilions on Block 196, but also the other parking lot behind the Pavilions on Block 173, as well as the half block fronting Tremont Place on Block 197, which includes the 12-story Tremont Parking Center. Future development of these parcels will likely include hotel and residential towers. In addition to the 1501 Tremont development, Brookfield is also working with the city, the Downtown Denver Partnership, and neighboring property owners on plans to enhance the pedestrian and retail environment along 15th.

Brookfield is now starting to actively market the project, with construction slated to begin once a target percentage of the building has been pre-leased. 1501 Tremont will be built to a LEED Gold standard.