There’s been a project planned for a while now for the corner of Zuni and Caithness Place in Highland that’s been referred to as the “CorePower Yoga Apartments” (since CorePower Yoga will be the main commercial anchor). I’m pleased to learn that the project is now ready to break ground and has an official name: Highland Park. The project will feature 126 rental units, plus the commercial space, in a four-story building. Best of all, the project will replace a thoroughly awful strip mall that is horribly out of character for this urban and nicely densifying historic area. Here’s an aerial from Bing Maps of the site:

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and here’s a rendering of the project. OZ Architecture of Denver, Inc., did the design:

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To give you all the details about the project, I’ll refer you John Rebchook’s blog InsideRealEstateNews.com, where John has just posted two excellent articles about this project, here and here.

The proposed building appears to be perfectly in scale with all of the beautiful historic block buildings and other new infill projects in the area, and also seems compatible architecturally with the district’s predominant use of brick. This is a fine addition to Denver’s urban core and a hopeful sign that the worst of the economy is behind us.