Work is progressing over at Platte Fifteen, a new five-story building that will feature 135,000 square feet of office space and 14,000 square feet of ground floor retail. With excavation mostly complete, work on the underground floors has now commenced.
In addition to the underground work, a new tower crane has been installed at the project site. Here are a few photos from around the project site.
This project will be great to watch go up as it will be Downtown Denver’s first Cross Laminated Timber building. We will stop by as soon as this starts to rise above the street level.
I somewhat irrationally loathe the entirety of this project simply because it displaced our much beloved Natural Grocers.
Everytime I walk past this giant hole (well, to be precise– everytime I have to cross to the other side of the street next to the hole so that I can walk on a sidewalk), I miss having the neighborhood feel of a small scale grocery store in Lower Highland and not having to cross over the river and through the woods, not to mention climbing a mountain of steps over the train tracks, to journey to the hustle and bustle of Whole foods.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for getting rid of ugly parking lots. But, I absolutely despise having to walk for an additional 30min to get to a store in which it takes another lifetime to simply walk from the produce section to the cheese section.
I get that it’s absurd that I am complaining, but this is what happens when you fall victim to the second wave of gentrification.
Not absurd at all, Phil. I’ve experienced similar changes to neighborhoods I’ve lived in – in Denver and other cities. A small change like this can have a profoundly tangible effect on one’s day-to-day life.
Phil, I agree. They also tore down a perfectly fine building.
good article.
I guess I take the opposite viewpoint; I don’t loathe it at all. The new building is going to be soooo much better. The old building barely utilized a prime corner in a rapidly densifying neighborhood. I can probably see some other boutique grocer filling the void somewhere in LoHi in the future, but the long-term viability of the neighborhood will be getting a big boost with the new building, multiple businesses, and new residents.
It’s such a terrific corner. Maybe a new and improved Natural Grocers will come back, Or, maybe a Trader Joe’s!
Better place for a new TJ’s? Edgewater. 20th Ave between Depew and Benton has been vacant for years. I understand there are plans for it and TJs on the west side would be welcome.