New development in Lower Highland isn’t only about apartment buildings—there’s for-sale housing being developed too. As evidence, Denver-based Koelbel and Company recently announced a new 18-unit townhome project for Vallejo Street between W. 31st and W. 32nd Avenues. The project, known as LoHi Court, hasn’t broken ground yet, but it’s off to a great start. According to InsideRealEstateNews.com, reservations were placed on 12 of the 18 townhomes the first day the units went up for sale.
Here’s a GoogleEarth aerial where I’ve identified the site for LoHi Court. For all images, click/zoom to embiggen:
The project architect is Denver-based Kephart. Here’s a rendering, courtesy of Visualize Graphics:
If all goes as planned, LoHi Court should be completed by late 2013.
August 18, 2012 update:
Thanks to Carl Koelbel, I’m happy to provide an additional rendering of the project. This is the view from the alley:
Also, I’ve updated the aerial photo at the top of this post to reflect a minor correction to the site outline in yellow.
Great update. The project includes the wooded vacant lot just to the north of what you have outlined, but it does not include the paved parking lot on the corner.
Positives of this are that this is a beautiful looking property, its not replacing historic structures and that the gentrification of the highlands continues. The only negatives are that those big trees are coming down and that this isn’t replacing a parking lot.
Is it just me or are all these projects beginning to look the same? It feels like the same forms along the street wall, the same color palettes. I feel as though in five decades we’ll be able to look at a building and definitively place its construction between 2000-2015.
It’s not just you!
I feel like you’re right, although architecture tends to go through these processes naturally, so I’m sure things will move on at some point too.
We just need to make sure that today’s architecture — ugly or not — has some variation in the street wall and is generally at a human scale. That was the big crime of 70s and 80s architecture: sure it was ugly, but much worse was that it ignored human beings on the street in favor of a boastfulness in the skyline.
It will definitely improve that section of the neighborhood (which is right now one of the ‘sketchier’ parts of the imediate lohi hood) but yeah..its a shame that we can’t come up with some more varied architectural styles…walking around the hood its beginning to look like nothing but stacked boxes everywhere… 🙁
Ken do you know what’s going in at Zuni and 29th, right next to the Hampton Inn and Suites?
Lisa, it’s a 5-story apartment building. I have a blog on it half finished but been super busy of late.