It’s been a little over six months since our last update on Southern Land Company’s new apartment development at 18th and Central Streets in Lower Highland, so let’s take a look at how this project is shaping up. First, however, the project now has an official name and website: Centric LoHi.
As we described in our first post, the L-shaped development consists of a building that spans the northeast side of 18th Street between Central and Boulder, plus a second building at Boulder and 19th Street (which no longer exists as a street but its right-of-way is now occupied by Highland Gateway Park). This Google Earth image from October 2015 clearly shows the property under construction:
Here are some photos from this weekend.
Left: the corner of 18th and Central. Right: the corner of Central and the alley separating the project from Prost Brewing Company (off image to the right):
This would be a good spot to show you the first of two new renderings of the project (courtesy EVstudio). This one shows the corner of 18th and Central where a Rusty Bucket Restaurant & Tavern will occupy the largest of three ground-floor retail spaces:
Left: the 18th Street side just above Central Street. Right: the view along 18th farther up the hill toward Boulder Street:
Left: the corner of 18th and Boulder. Right: a courtyard facing Boulder Street:
Here’s the other new rendering—the view at the corner of 18th and Boulder:
Left: from Boulder Street looking down the alley that separates the project’s two buildings. Right: the project’s building at 19th and Boulder (foreground) is still at the foundation stage:
Finally, the view from 19th and Boulder with the back of Prost Brewing Company on the left:
This project is slated for completion in early 2017.
From the 18th St. side, this building looks great. I like how they were able to break up the large mass into something that (somewhat convincingly) looks like three different buildings.
I was thinking it would have been nice if they’d have planned ground floor retail along the 20th St side of the site to sort of create a retail ring (if you will) around the Highland Gateway Park including Avanti and Stones on 32nd. Just a thought…