Today we are heading back over to Cherry Creek taking a look at another new project: 100 Saint Paul. The Pauls Corporation expects to break ground on a new 8-story building on the northeast corner of East First Avenue and Saint Paul Street. Here is a map with the project site outlined.
Currently the site has a one-story 1stBank branch and a Burger King that has recently been closed. These buildings will be demolished to make way for the new building.
100 Saint Paul will rise a total of 8-stories comprised of 149,000 rentable square feet with 14,000 square feet of retail. Amenities of the building will include an electric vehicle charging station, secure bike storage, a 9,000 square foot common patio area, and a 30 foot ceiling in the lobby. Here are some renderings courtesy of their website.
Once again, groundbreaking is expected by fall of this year and 100 Saint Paul is aiming for LEED-Gold certification.
I don’t understand Cherry Creek. It feels like a vibrant shopping district one day, a complete ghost town the next. There are fancy stores all over the place, and empty storefronts are just as frequent (I don’t have hard data on this, just my personal perception). It desperately needs more residents to have a better all around feel, but all the neighbors seem to hate the idea of more people in their neighborhood. It just seems like a dysfunctional child to me right now – full of potential, developing in fits and starts, but currently just kind of lost.
Residents not wanting more people seems to be pretty common. There’s a funny T shirt for Austin TX which says “Welcome to Austin. Please don’t move here. I hear Dallas is great!” If they’re that unhappy they can leave. Cities and neighborhoods evolve.
In my experience (I work in Cherry Creek) Cherry Creek is indeed a vibrant shopping area. I have never experienced a ghost town there; sometimes early on a weekend morning it is quiet, but then again, so is Lodo at that hour. There are not too many vacant storefronts. Most that are vacant are merely awaiting the wrecking ball. I find the development in CCN to be the opposite of lost- seems like the market is speaking and these types of developments are in demand.
There are many residents in Cherry Creek. However, many of the luxury townhomes and condos are second homes.
The sudden development boom in Cherry Creek is great… most of the new buildings looks awesome. This one, not so much. Looks like 10 years ago, in the DTC. WTF.
Is this going to have commercial space on streetlevel? If not, huge fail.
I agree, very uninspiring suburban look. It does look like (from the rendering) they have retail a little further down on on St. Paul. But, 1st Avenue, I’m guessing is the bank. Which I guess is retail. Of course, 1st Avenue is not a very walkable street. I assume that is partly because it has so little retail along it.
Agree, agree!
If parallel parking was allowed along 1st it might feel more walkable. That and more street trees could go a long way. When Cherry Creek Mall gets a major facelift it would be nice to see more 1st-fronting retail to better connect it to CCN.
All very good ideas.
Completely agree. They definitely need street parking on the North side, which is mostly smaller stores. The South side can wait due to the parking lots. Denver can always use more trees, especially along the streets.
Yes there will be a restaurant on the ground floor in addition to the 1st Bank.
As I was driving by that area last week I thought I noticed some fencing around buildings just southeast of there prior to the turn, anything known about that?
Looks like I went back a couple of more posts and found it. Should have known you would have it.
The Cherry Creek area will rival Union Station for number of cranes up by later this year. This project as well as Steele Creek, 250 Columbine and 245 Columbine should all be started by this fall. There is also the smaller but significant Coors Foundation building currently going up at 2nd & St. Paul that will have 28,000 SF of retail/restaurant space on the first floor and two floors of offices above.