A few years ago there was a proposal to renovate the historic Colorado Saddlery Building at the corner of 15th and Wynkoop and convert it into offices with some residences up top. The project was canceled or put on hold or something, but now there is some working going on at the building. They’ve had the Wynkoop facade covered up with fabric while doing some power-cleaning and yesterday they removed the cover. I’m not sure of the extent of the current work on the building and if it’s the same proposal as last time, but one thing is for sure: the Wynkoop side looks amazing! I never knew the Colorado Saddlery Building’s brick was the same orangey-red color as so many other LoDo buildings. I always thought it was more of a darker brown color like the Steelbridge Lofts building diagonally across the intersection. Wrong! Go see for yourself the difference since the 15th Street side hasn’t been cleaned yet.
I’ll try to post a photo later today or tomorrow.
Great! I always thought that building was an eyesore. Hope they clean it up nicely, and maybe one day decide to use it again! Same goes for that Marcus Bros. 'historic' building on 15th near the underpass between LoDo and Riverfront Park.
I saw a Zone Change Request notice on 15th Street–maybe the one that Shap references above–at Little Raven. Any idea what's going on there?
I am the architect on the project. It is a total renovation of the 1901 building. We are restoring the exterior and tuck pointing the brick. We too were very surprised by the change of color. The first floor will be a new retail space with restored glazing and a new loading dock. Floors 2 through 5 will be office space. There will be 2 new copper clad penthouses added to the roof.
There will also be a sidewalk in front of the redesigned loading dock on the Wynkoop side of the building where currently these is only parking. It was always such a nuisance to walk around into the street.
I seem to recall creation of underground parking as part of the original plan, perhaps that is obviated by the recent structure at 15th and Delgany?