The time has come to move SkyHouse Denver into the completed category. Construction is starting to wrap up and residents will begin to occupy the units in November. As you probably noticed by the title, we are going to be breaking this project up with two separate parts. Today, we will be focusing on the interior of SkyHouse.
A huge thank you to Ashley Cattolica of Fitzgerald Petersen Communications and Carmen Miller of Simpson Housing for giving DenverInfill a tour of this project!
Let’s begin the tour with the ground floor. This is the resident entrance to the building which contains computers for new residents to fill out applications, a seating area, the leasing office, and a 24 hour concierge.
Heading up into the tower, here are two main living areas. The first photo is a studio unit and the second a one bedroom unit. Every unit features floor to ceiling glass, stainless steel appliances, real wood floors, and a private patio.
Here is a the bedroom of the same one bedroom unit pictured above.
The top (25th) floor houses most of SkyHouse’s amenities. A large community room, with a large kitchen, and a fitness room are two of the notable indoor amenities.
The outdoor rooftop terrace features great Downtown Denver views, and ample space for residents.
The pool resides on the south side of the roof. As you can see in the first photo, there is plenty of sunlight to go around.
Let’s wrap up with a couple of views from the 25th floor. Looking east, we can see Uptown and northeast Denver. Looking West, we get a great view of Downtown Denver with the mountains in the background.
For part two, we will be exploring the finished exterior of SkyHouse Denver. Stay tuned!
That studio looks hot! I would totally live there 🙂
I know they are all the rage, but personally, I hate cement ceilings in new buildings like this. Prison cells have cement ceilings, not high rise “luxury” buildings. That won’t stand the test of time.
Yuck.
I agree on the aesthetics. I live in such a building myself but I have to admit that the sound insulation is fantastic. I never hear anything from the other floors.
Yep, agreed. I live in an old 1960s era concrete building and I can’t hear anything. SkyHouse has 7″ of concrete between each floor so you won’t hear footsteps (unless your neighbor wears heels), or much noise in general.
Of course, if you had sheet rock ceilings, that would just add to the insulation effect of the floor. I’m complaining about the looks, not the fact the building is built with cement and steel!
I suppose if the look goes out of fashion its easy enough to put up sheet rock and create a more conventional look.
Nice on the inside and for the amenities. I would love to survey folks and what kind of jobs they have that can afford this.
How much do you need to afford this? With two people splitting a nice 2 bedroom that would be around $1500 a month each or so. At that rate, someone making 40 k year could possibly afford it, right? (assuming take home of 30 k – about 2500/month). Or is that a little tight and we are actually looking at 50k + per year to afford?
I’d say 1500 per month for two people is a super low estimate, I’d be willing to say it’s much more than that;)
3000 per month for 2 bedroom? you are saying that’s super low? I doubt it.
$1,500 per month on a $40k salary? That’s almost half one’s gross income going toward rent.
I’ve been confounded in the last few years by how housing prices have gotten so out of sync with incomes in Denver, but if this is a prevalent idea of reasonable rent expenditures it would go a long way toward explaining it.
The prices here are $2,390 for a two bedroom. Assuming two people with $40,000 salaries and a 15% tax rate with a spending limit of 1/3 there take home pay of $34,000 they could not spend over $11,333 each in housing. That comes to $1,888 per month for rent. That would put this couple $502 short per month to live in this space. If you tack on internet, electricity, and other bills the gap would grow. You would need $101,000 gross salary between two people to spend only 1/3 of their income on rent, again, not including other housing bills.