Wait, Union Station North? The Prospect neighborhood recently received a new name, and even got a sign at the entrance. As far as DenverInfill goes, the previous post titles will not be changed, as it was still ‘Prospect’ at the time, but the neighborhood category will reflect this change.
Now on to the infill! The Huron, formally known as The Residences at Prospect Park, is now complete with residents moving in. Since the project’s announcement back in December 2012, DenverInfill has covered every step of the way.
New Prospect Neighborhood Project: Residences at Prospect Park
Prospect: Residences at Prospect Park Update #1
Summer 2013: Downtown Denver Hole-in-the-Ground Census
Prospect: Residences at Prospect Park Update #2
Prospect: Residences at Prospect Park Update #3
As mentioned in Update #3, this building is very long; almost an 1/8th of a mile. Here are both corners of the building looking down Huron Street.
Given the length of the building, it’s hard to highlight some neat features along the street level so here are two sections of the project. One of the cores which, to me, resembles its close neighbor, the Flour Mill Lofts, and the exposed steel and glass entrance of the building. These features are all very fitting for the neighborhood.
One of my favorite views in Downtown Denver resides in this neighborhood; a great view of the Four Seasons and the soon to be seen 1144 Fifteenth Street.
The fence remains up as there is still some landscaping to be done, but we are calling this complete in our books. The Huron contributes 296 apartment units to the neighborhood. Welcome to Union Station North!
I vote we call it UNo
U No that’s not a bad idea.
Very nice update. Thanks for the work. Anyone know what is going to happen to the plot just north of this building? The lot opposite Jack Kerouac?
The building itself looks to be of higher quality than most of the apartment buildings going up near downtown, but it would have been nice if the project had been designed as two or three separate buildings with some much-needed green spaces in between, rather that one very long monolithic building. Green space is something this so-called “neighborhood” is seriously lacking and one of the many things that keeps it from feeling like an actual neighborhood (I live in the Watertower Lofts next to the Huron). Just filling in parking lots with high-density apartments is not nearly enough. More thought & attention needs to be given to amenities (especially green spaces) that help make a neighborhood actually livable. On a side note, as an avid bike commuter, the almost complete lack of bike lanes in the entire Union Station / Riverfront area was a HUGE missed opportunity.
This neighborhood is actually relatively close to some of the best green space in downtown. It’s just not very well connected. It would do you better to have at least a pedestrian bridge or tunnel over to Cuernavaca Park and the Platte River trails. Personally, I’d like to see this neighborhood relinquish its cul-de-sac status and actually allow through traffic by connecting Inca north to the Westend Apartment complex and beyond I-25. Of course, I’m sure this is cost prohibitive to have a tunnel or viaduct that long, plus none of the existing neighbors would go for it.
I like the final result – looks nice. I just can’t believe how long it took to build! Two and a half years for stick frame? It would seem poured-in-place higher cost would certainly be equalized by such long construction time frame for stick frame. Poured-in-place certainly safer for high density housing (fire).
I believe this was an Ohio company and afiak this is their only project in Denver. Guessing they are pleased. I remembered it being really long but on the whole it turned out pretty nice… and yes, I like their creative use of steel also.
I love this building. The entrance is amazing with the glass, steel beams and the different style brick they used. I also like how they did the base/foundation by making it look “old” and it definitely all blends in beautifully with the neighborhood.
The building is fine or whatever. But let’s talk about the real elephant in the room here: Denver’s absurd neighborhood name trends.
It’s super sad to me that we can’t just let neighborhoods have their own identities but we have to piggyback them off of the trendy and up-and-coming neighborhoods.
First it was Highlands. I mean, I understand the history of the area so I get why many neighborhoods have Highland in their name (because they were one a part of the town of Highland), but calling neighborhoods like Sunnyside and Berkley a part of “The Highlands” is just silly.
And don’t even get me started on RiNo and that neighborhood that thinks it’s part of RiNo but is on the opposite side of the railroad tracks and is actually no where near the river. If any neighborhood should be changing its name, it’s the part of RiNo that has little to no connection to the Brighton Boulevard section of RiNo (the part the actually abuts the river and makes sense to be called River North).
Now we have an established neighborhood, Prospect Park, changing it’s name to Union Station North? I understand, that Union Station is hot right now, but Prospect Park is hardly even connected to it. And its sad that they just want to be associated with Union Station when they could be forming their own cool identity.
We’re lucky Union Station is even called Union Station. It could have ended up being LoDo North. Or Ballpark could have ended up as LoDo East. But I digress. Maybe someday they’ll pull a Cap Hill North and change their name because they realize they are a distinct and different neighborhood. One can only hope.
Does no one else find this neighborhood name shifting to be a horrible fad right now? It really needs to stop.
As the President of the neighborhood association and the person that came up with the name, I would respectfully disagree. The name Prospect Park was made up by developers in the early 2000’s when the area was purchased by Dana Crawford and a large scale redevelopment plan drawn up. The economy crashed and the Crawford group sold most of the lots. The grand development plan was abandoned. So, there didn’t end up being park in the neighborhood. So 2015 rolls around and we’ve got a neighborhood that is not officially platted and can call itself whatever it wants with an inaccurate contrived name that no one recognized or associated with the neighborhood. We recognized that we had a distinct identify but that we were very closely tied to LoDo generally and Union Station specifically. If we were going to have a contrived name, why not have one that at least explains where we are and has some association with the surrounding area.