A 164-unit apartment project is taking over a one-story parking structure, in an already dense area of the Cherry Creek Neighborhood! Trammell Crow partners recently broke ground on an 8-story apartment building, named Alexan Cherry Creek.
As you can see in this aerial, there is already a lot of existing density along with a lot of new projects underway; The Steele Creek Apartments and the 1st and Steele apartments. The site for the project is outlined in yellow.
Alexan at Cherry Creek will neighbor an existing office building which is receiving a ground floor remodel to include retail. A parking structure will be incorporated in the new 8-story structure and will offer parking for office, retail and residential tenants. Here is a final rendering of the project courtesy of the Denver Business Journal.
Completion for this project will be mid-2017 with construction underway this month. Stay tuned for the first update!
Do you know who the architect will be? The Denver Business Journal only mentions the developer. Or is the developer also the architect?
Wow, this is such a better use of land than a one story parking garage! Hopefully, we’ll see more parking lots gobbled up by 8 story buildings……
The architect is Shears Adkins + Rockmore…
This sets a really good precedent of how to updated the site-plan for these 70s-80s office monstrosities without wholesale demolition and redevelopment. I’d like to see a lot more properties in Denver find ways to redevelop their dated parking solutions going forward.
I seem to remember seeing a while back that they are planning to “wrap” the office building with a single story of retail where the (ridiculously suburban) landscape buffer now sits along 1st. Does anybody know if this is still the plan? I absolutely love the idea that 70s style landscape buffers can be built on without feeling the need to erase the entire site and start over.
I believe that still is the plan. Intact the renovation that you are referencing is already under construction.
This is an excellent opportunity to give more attention to alleys. This building abuts the alley property line so it begs for investment.
http://www.citylab.com/design/2012/02/why-alleys-deserve-your-attention/1249/
Ironically, this was in the Denver Post today:
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_28535721/z-block-development-denvers-lodo-will-highlight-alley?source=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dp-news-local-denver-metro+%28Denver+Post%3A+News%3A+Local%3A+Denver+Metro%29
Denver Infill: I work right across the street from this development and could take pictures from above for you as construction progresses. Let me know if you’re interested!