A new infill project is coming to the Lower Highland district: the final phase of the Highland Crossing development at 17th and Central.
The project’s first two phases were built in the early 2000s and consist of several condominium buildings along Boulder Street between 17th Street and Kensing Court. This final phase will develop the rest of the block with a new structure along Central Street featuring 55 residential rental units and two ground-floor retail spaces. Here’s the location via Google Maps:
The building will be generally U-shaped with structured parking located to the interior of the site. Along 17th Street, the building will be 7-stories high, dropping to 4-stories along the Kensing Court side. Here are a couple of images from a few years ago when the project was going through review with the city. I cannot confirm that these images represent the final design of the project, but I believe they do generally reflect the scale and layout of what is being developed. I’ll post more up-to-date renderings if I can obtain them. The project is being developed by the Salazar family, the same folks who renovated the old Regency hotel near the Mousetrap into Auraria student housing.
Here’s a shot I took about a week ago of the site under construction:
This project will fill in a gap in the nice wall of buildings facing Downtown Denver that’s developing along the Highland bluff, and add to the vitality of the Lower Highland district.
hey we live in the phase I&II. thank you for posting, i have been looking all over for some more info on this project. did you find any renderings out there?
thanks again
This will help complete the CPV-Highlands transitional zone. Too bad I-25 gashes through the area, maybe in time the interstate can be capped w/ buildings on top. Kinda like a modern day Ponte Vecchio. Oddly enough there is a wiki page that covers exactly this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_structures_built_on_top_of_freeways
I also heard Breckenridge brewery is moving in across the street at the bizzarre statue shop Amato. Nice to see some more infill underway.
I am excited about this one. Right now, the City View building is kind of on it’s own, and this will help connect it to the rest of Lower Highland. As for I-25 being capped in buildings, it’s much more likely that I-25 could be covered with a park than actual buildings. As much as I love the Highland Bridge, it’s makes a covered I-25 very unlikely in the near future. Maybe in 2050.
Though I agree it’s unlikely to happen for many years if ever, I’d be all behind a park over I-25. Reminds me of the Deck Park Tunnel in Phoenix.
With Commons Park so close, I would hope that tax dollars go to other projects for the foreseeable future. But it would be beautiful to hide that highway… and who knows, by 2050, maybe we won’t have highways.
RE: I25… we need to do something radical like shut it down throughout downtown. Think about the great urban things that could happen if we got rid of this huge gash of a dead zone.