In yesterday’s post about Phase III of the Industry Denver development that’s adding structured parking and additional office space to the popular RiNo co-working hub, we mentioned a multi-family residential component would be coming soon. That is the focus of this post.
The Industry Denver master plan envisions two main residential components: apartments to the northeast of the historic Industry Denver building and townhomes to the northwest. We’ll cover the townhomes in a future post when details become available. Today, however, we have preliminary information about the apartments; the site is outlined in the aerial photo below:
Lynd Company is planning a 9-story apartment building on a 1.82-acre parcel that will include a total of 277 residential units. The base of the structure will consist of three floors of structured parking for 351 vehicle spaces and several townhome units facing Brighton Boulevard. Six floors of apartments will rise above the parking base to a total height of 95 feet.
This first rendering, courtesy of Lynd Company and their project architect, Valerio Dewalt Train Associates, shows the southeast (Brighton Boulevard) and northeast sides of the proposed structure. The historic Industry Denver building is visible at far left. The project’s blonde brick is a nice complement to its historic neighbor.
In this second rendering, courtesy of Axis Vu Design (3D visualization experts) and Valerian (landscape architecture and urban design), we see the private drive that will separate the Industry Denver Apartments from the historic building:
Industry Denver Apartments is currently in development review with the Denver planning office, so there’s the possibility that some of the project’s design elements may change. Construction is expected to begin in 2016.
I actually really like this building. Its architecture is a welcome nod to its next door neighbor with the blonde brick and black industrial looking details. So happy they aren’t just going to slap up some multi-colored geometrical panels and call it “modern.” This is a modern that might actually stand the test of time, unlike many of Denver’s latest apartment buildings that will certainly be looked back on with disgust and resent (as they get torn down for something better, fingers crossed). Here’s to hoping the renderings above make it through to actualization.
Stop gentrifying. We don’t need anymore yuppies in this neighborhood,
Stop making our city better!
yea, because the neighborhood BELONGS only to the CURRENT group of people that live there. Nevermind, the previous generations of of residents that where “gentrified” by you “yuppies” that are there now. It really is too bad people are moving in and investing in neighborhoods in urban places these days. Now people can’t complain that they are being underserved. Guess they will just have to complain that they don’t like the look of the “yuppies”.
Gentrification implies displacing existing, poorer residents. Brighton Blvd has not ever been a residential district. There are no residents to displace in a massive parking lot next to an old, now renovated warehouse.
If Denver ever moves beyond cars or the level of car ownership drops significantly in the next decade or two, as some are predicting then all these buildings are going to have these huge, unusable parking podiums, essentially rendering the buildings functionally obsolete.
I think car ownership could dip slightly, but I don’t foresee it dropping to the level where these parking podiums will become obsolete. Denver is to spread out for cars to significantly decrease and we always have been and always will be an active state where people will want to drive to and from the mountains ect. I think the parking will still be used. However, who really knows in 20 years though. Just my opinion.
I’m sure these structures can be repurposed to better serve residents when the time comes. Valuable real estate is seldom wasted!