Lennar Multifamily’s 2401 Blake project has topped off and is making good progress. This development will bring 241 new homes, 236 automobile parking spaces, and ground-floor commercial uses to the Ballpark district two blocks from Coors Field. For our previous posts on 2401 Blake, click here.
Below are several recent construction photos, beginning with the front of the building along Blake Street:
Along with the Ballpark Lofts (completed 2003), the 2401 Blake development contributes to the emerging street wall along Blake that helps define the public realm and makes the street more enjoyable for pedestrians:
In the first image below, framing is going in for the project’s ground-floor restaurant/retail spaces and walk-up residential units along Blake.
In the second image, we see the alley side of the development viewed from the Coors Field surface parking lots. In front of the low-scale buildings in the foreground along the edge of the asphalt is where Wazee Street would be if it had ever been platted in this part of downtown. This particular section of the Coors Field lots was railroad land and was never included in any subdivision plat. Perhaps in the near future, these waste-of-space surface lots will be replaced with structured parking and infill development and Wazee Street will become a thing in this part of the Ballpark district.
Anyway, that’s it for our quick update of 2401 Blake!
Honestly, what a lousy neighborhood. The street-scape is virtually non-existent and no one really lives there, They are all apartments with people moving in and out constantly. There is no community and there will never be a community because no one will live there long-term.
I know, right? Hot and cold running twenty-something tech consultants making excellent salaries and living within walking distance to RiNo, their offices, Coors Field? Like, I bet these twenty-somethings in the flower of their lives are meeting each other and making amazing friends and having an amazing Summer and… ….I forgot why I am supposed to hate this development… …oh yeah! Why can’t they just build a seminary with McDonalds, Burger King, AND Wendy’s, and plenty of parking. Right?
That was funny.
Most of so called LoDo, Ballpark, rhi-no, East Welton, etc will be tenements in 20 years – precious little panache, art, trees, flower beds, etc – all this talk of Denver as ‘the place to be” – not to mention the squalor of the ‘neighborhood” to the west of Coors field across Wewatta – who allowed this slumish block after block of non-descript apartments to be constructed.
I tend to agree with much of this. This will be the future location of “affordable housing” in Denver, though I like our reference to “tenements” and all the negative connotations that has. And the future may be sooner than some think.
The tenement my father grew up in in Hoboken, New Jersey are now million dollar condos. It’s difficult to predict which way the real estate wind will blow. Or these buildings could be torn down in twenty years to make way for bigger, more expensive developments, depending on the value of that real estate. That would be my guess. Right now, they appear to be filling the need.
Amen. People need to live somewhere, and these developments are filling an important niche. Everything doesn’t need to be $1.5M four-story condos.
I live in the Ballpark Lofts and this bad boy now impedes the view of the mountains, and it’s 1 story higher than our building. Frankly, it looks pretty horrible from the provided renderings, the material palette is random and doesn’t evoke anything of the industrial & brick of the surroundings. Patchwork, that’s what it is, another one of those ugly patchwork buildings that banalize the urban environment!
Oh no! How dare a city revolve just around your view!