The 194-unit Park Avenue Lofts apartments project covers the entire block bounded by 19th and 20th Avenues and Washington and Clarkson Streets. Under construction since early 2008 when it was named simply “Uptown Apartments,” the project has recently been completed and renters have moved in. Before this project arrived, the entire block was a weedy vacant lot–something that’s always a shame to see anywhere in the urban core, but particularly when that vacant lot sits at a corner along a prominent thoroughfare like Park Avenue.
Fortunately, we now have a handsome residential complex at that location. Along with the Post Uptown Square project and DHA’s Hope VI Park Avenue redevelopment, this part of Uptown is really filling in nicely. Here are a few pics of the finished product:
The building is pedestrian scaled and offers a straight-forward design with classical forms and details done in a clean, contemporary manner. The heavy use of brick gives the project a solid, grounded feel that should age well both architecturally and physically. A perfect background building for Denver and a fine addition to Uptown.
It would be great to see the area along Park between Washington and Broadway fill in with buildings in this height range. It would provide a great outline for future development of the area between Broadway and Park from Glenarm to Curtis. That area is such a wasteland of parking lots.
Hooray for no stucco!
FUGLY !!!
Bravo to the city and the builders for showing Denverites what a well done apartment building can do for a neighborhood. The use of Brick, turrets, arch detail and depth variation make this structure fit right in to the area and has given Park Avenue the facelift it desperately needed!
I am am grateful for the new building on a once empty lot even if I would never in a million years consider living in it.
Uh yea, that's not anything architecturally significant. It's just more filler, although they should have tried a lot harder. It looks like any suburban condo development. I'm so sick of these cheap turretastic ugly buildings.