As Rick mentioned in his recent post on Denver Union Station, there’s a new project that just broke ground in the Riverfront Park area of Downtown Denver’s Central Platte Valley district: the second phase of the Manhattan.
The existing Manhattan building was one of the first buildings constructed in Riverfront Park. It opened in 2003 and includes about 265 rental apartments in a 12-story building. The site across Bassett Street from the Manhattan was identified in the Riverfront Park Master Plan as the site for the Manhattan, Phase 2. Due to the relatively strong state of the rental apartment market in Denver, that project is now getting underway. The site in question is the rectangular parcel across the street from the Manhattan and separated from the Brownstones at Riverfront Park by an alley (image from GoogleEarth):
The project is being developed by Boston-based General Investment & Development Companies. Gary from GID was kind enough to provide me with information on the project and the renderings below.
The Manhattan II project will consist of two five-story buildings that sit on top of a one-level underground parking garage that covers the entire parcel. The project will feature 134 rental apartments, some amenity areas, and leasing/management offices. The five-story scale of these buildings was intended to provide a transition from the taller Manhattan Phase 1 to the lower scale of the Brownstones.
The project will take about 18 months, with completion planned for late Summer 2012.
Very cool. I wonder what they’re going to do with all those Aspen trees that they planted in that area?
Any chance it will have a better name than just “Manhattan II”? The Brownstone residents are going to be cursing this project for a while I would imagine…it seems to butt right up against them.
Thanks for all the updates and info guy!
The brownstones have an alley seperatin them, and they bought homes in a dense urban neighborhood…they might curse it, but they really have no grounds for griping…nice project!
I wish it didnt look like the Metro. 🙁
Pretty uninspired design. Many Denver multi-units going for that cylindrical front look with the same alternating multicolor design.
have you heard who the architect is on this project?
Looks like “The Projects” of the future.
Gross! what a waste of land, another brown and beige pile of crap, poor architecture. design, lack of modernism and innovation, frankly a shame. Appears to me that a lot of Developers in Denver dont really care how it stands out, but how much make they will make.