Outside of our last post, reporting that Cherry Creek has three more projects in the works, another project is coming to the Cherry Creek North neighborhood. Back in May, it was reported that Schnitzer West had purchased property at 230 and 250 Fillmore Street where the popular Wizard’s Chest stands. First, let’s start out with a street-level view of where the new office building is going.
Given that high density is the forward direction Cherry Creek is moving, some sacrifices such as this one must be made. Fear not, the Wizard’s Chest will have a new home along South Broadway and will stay in Cherry Creek until December. Here is an aerial with the project site outlined.
Civica Cherry Creek will be following and maximizing the height according the new zoning guidelines we outlined in our last post. A seven-story structure will rise closer to Second Avenue and will step down to five stories towards Third Avenue. The building will provide the neighborhood with 105,000 square feet of boutique office space with a rooftop deck and an underground parking garage. We have one preliminary rendering of the project courtesy of Schnitzer West.
With news that the Wizard’s Chest is operating in Cherry Creek until December, we should expect this project to start in early 2016. As a fun little bonus, you can follow the construction of the new Wizard’s Chest castle going up on 451 Broadway here.
And may the lame architecture continue.
“There is no way we should do architecture here that would look like something in Atlanta or something in Portland.” –Jeff Shephard
The rendering is not the best, but it looks like a fairly elegant modern building. I think it will be a nice addition to CCN.
Ryan, you should consider using Google Maps in Lite mode for your map screen shots. In Lite mode, the satellite views are more more up to date, and they are less blotchy then they are in your screen shots. You can get there by clicking on the lightning bolt in the lower right corner of the map. Those maps are also much faster to render than the new full maps. Especially if you have a slower machine or slower internet.
And where is the city’s investment in infrastructure to support all the development in cherry creek? Cherry creek east had storm drain issues 20 years ago and an outlet was put on the CIP list…how many massive projects and still no storm drainage.
Indeed – lame and boring architecture for a “world class” city – these new neighborhoods will look dated and dusty in 10 years – Denver is my home all of life and the rapid development is not at all impressive – but it sort of matches the legions of aimless wandering the streets of downtown –