Back in July we reported the groundbreaking for the 10-story 300,000 square-foot office building at 16th and Wewatta. For about six weeks the site stood still with a single excavator on site. Now, orange fences have been put up, the parking lot has been torn out, and earth moving has begun. What a great site to see! Between 16th, 17th, Wewatta and Chestnut, there are now three high-rises under construction with one (Cadence) almost complete. Here is a photo of the site.
1601 Wewatta will be as tall as its neighbor, Cadence, and 3-stories shorter; because the floor to ceiling height is taller in office buildings. This building will also give us something we have not yet experienced: an almost completely obstructed view of Downtown Denver from the Millennium Bridge. That’s not necessarily a bad thing! The view is changing from looking over a wide open field to looking over a brand new urban neighborhood. We are living in an ever changing city where views from our favorite vantage points are also continuously changing. All great signs of a developing, growing city. What’s next for this project? Four levels of underground parking need to get excavated so it will be awhile before we see this break street level. For more details and renderings of 1601 Wewatta, head on over here.
Thanks as always for the great updates, yet another project commencing around Union Station and expanding development in our fair city which is something to celebrate.
The brown brick wall at the south edge of Cadence/north edge of 1601 Wewatta is a bit of an eyesore, no? Looks like an unaesthetic afterthought.
No need to worry about that side of Cadence as most of it will be covered up by 1601 Wewatta. That’s why there is a blank wall there.
What are we going to do with the generously sized parking lots all these new buildings have in twenty years when car ownership declines? I’d be curious to know if there are any good examples of adaptive reuse of underground parking garages
I just read the article about construction defeft lawsuits killing condo construction in Denver. With the low apartment vacancy rate, apartments are desperately needed, but I wonder if buildings like these around Union Station are being built with the intention of converting them into condos once the 6 year time limit for construction defects expires. This is good in that, hopefully, most construction defects will be repaired in the meantime. It is bad in that buyers are not allowed to chose their finishings of their units like in a new building. Either way, a lot more condos need to be constructed as well. Especially near train stations, as the article states. 3002
It is so telling that this building will have 4 levels of parking. It is located right next to the Light Rail and commuter rail, and probably a ton of other parking that already exists. What incentive does a worker have to take mass transit if it is easier and cheaper to drive? This just merely encourages congestion, sprawl, our car-centric city. What a disappointment.