It was only three weeks ago when we reported that the old industrial building at the corner of 15th and Little Raven had been demolished to make way for The Confluence, a proposed 34-story apartment tower in Downtown Denver’s Central Platte Valley district.
Clearing a property of an existing building or other site improvements is not the same thing as a new project being under construction, at least not by DenverInfill standards. There are several examples of sites that were cleared in the pre-recession era whose projects never made it out of the ground.
That won’t be the case for The Confluence, however, as excavation for the tower’s foundation appears to have begun:
It will be fun to watch this tower climb and take its place in the downtown skyline, but some patience will be required before that happens: work putting in the tower’s three levels of underground parking will probably take a good part of 2015. The project is slated to open in early 2017.
How exciting! The CPV/Union Station will be a great urban addition for Denver when built out in several years!
Truly a special time to be a Denver resident. I can’t believe all the changes.
2017! They need to hire Holland who built the Platform. They built a floor a week once above ground. Must be very complicated underground.
I think it will be. Given their location right next to the creek and the river, they will have to do continuous dewatering during excavation and construction of the underground parking levels.
Thanks Ken. I wondered about that. I know most downtown excavations have to deal with ground water. The Union Station bus terminal actually had to pour a 4 foot concrete floor to keep it from floating up! But all this is manageable. The Trump Tower in Chicago is build right on the Chicago River and the structure actually begins below river level by a few floors. Pretty amazing considering the river and Lake Michigan are an endless threat. This will be fascinating to watch. I wonder how they will keep ground water from seeping into the parking structure – maybe by just waterproofing the outside of the foundation walls.