A new EVEN Hotel may be coming to the corner of Park Avenue and Blake Street near Coors Field in Downtown Denver.
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is planning to construct an EVEN Hotel on an undeveloped parcel at 2250 Blake Street, one block from Coors Field, according to city records. The project’s site development plan was approved earlier this year and on August 28, a building permit application for the project was submitted to the city planning office. The project is still in the pre-development phase as the building permit review and approval process is still in progress and no construction date has yet been announced.
Below is a Google Earth aerial with the site outlined, along with a Google Street View image of the site’s current use—a surface parking lot.
The new EVEN Hotel would join two IHG properties recently added in Downtown Denver: the Kimpton Hotel Born and the Hotel Indigo, both near Denver Union Station.
According to documents on file with the city, the proposed EVEN Hotel would include 153 rooms in an eight-story building. One underground level would contain 24 vehicle parking spaces, with an additional 23 spaces provided in a nearby apartment building’s parking garage through a lease agreement. Access to the underground parking would be via the alley.
Below is a rendering provided courtesy of Davis Partnership Architects, the architect of record for the project:
The ground floor would contain the hotel lobby, restaurant and bar, a game room, and other building services. The second floor would include meeting rooms and a fitness center, administrative offices, and some hotel rooms. The remaining hotel rooms would be accommodated on floors 3 through 8. As the rendering illustrates, the building’s primary facade along Blake Street would feature extensive use of brick to complement the neighboring historic brick buildings.
Hopefully, our next update post on this project will be to announce the start of construction.
I applaud the use of “historic” brick along Blake but wonder why they could not have continued that type of brick around the other sides? Having two different types of brick seems odd to me.
I don’t think it is the darkness in the rendering on the Park Avenue side but truly a different type and color of brick.
The dark gray part of the Park Avenue side are metal panels
Ken,
I can see those. It is the rest of the brick on the Park Avenue side that I am questioning! Look at the far left side of the image.
I see. According to the plans, the brick on the far left part of the image is listed as the same brick as is facing Blake. So I think it’s just an artistic effect and not a different colored brick.
It’s surprising that they would be able to fit 153 rooms on that site, but it would be a welcome addition to the neighborhood. The brick exterior facing Blake is a nice touch, as well.
A less than 1:1 parking ratio with spaces accesed via the alley!? Bravo!!
The proposed 14 story Hyatt Centric at 18th & Champa (also a postage stamp-sized lot) is rumored to have NO parking. Ken can you do a post on that project?
When the time is right. We usually don’t post on a project as soon as a concept plan has been submitted to the city but when it has evolved a bit more or other design milestones have been reached. I’ve been in contact with a development team member and the timing isn’t quite right yet.
IHG always delivers great products. I think the Even brand will be a good fit for this part of Denver and will hopefully provide a lively connection between the RiNo and Ballpark neighborhoods. Glad to hear there will be a restaurant and bar on the ground level to activate the street and pedestrian experience.
Good to see another parking lot removed in that part of town. Many more to go, with a silver lining in all that potential!
One of the more significant undeveloped lots is now looking like a great building will be occupying it and ready for clientele before 2020 ends.
The top five lots in the downtown grid between I-25 and Broadway, and Speer and 20th that are noteworthy for not being developed are: (1) east corner of 20th and Blake, across from main entry into Coors Field; (2) two blocks along general east side of 15th St between Welton and Champa bisected by Glenarm on generally west side of Denver Pavillions; (3) north side between 18th St and 19th St along Market (potentially in development review status); (4) the parking surfaces along Cherry Creek between Speer and 14th and Market and Larimer; (5) west corner of 15th and Market that is partly a surface parking lot for insignificant building that contains PF Changs.
Others that could be considered are the large packing lot just west of the river along SE-bound 15th south of Platte St; half-block parking lots along east side of 19th between Arapahoe and Lawrence; north corner of Blake and 17th; north corner of 16th and Wazee; the several parking lots in all directions one block or so from the corner of 14th and Tremont;. and two buildings that are overdue to be gone: the one block-sized Greyhound Bus Terminal on the east corner of Arapahoe and 19th, and the one block-sized US Federal Reserve Bank facility between 16th and 15th and Arapahoe and Curtis.
The number of surface parking lots and obsolete buildings that should be replaced between 20th and Park and Market and Broadway are numerous, to say nothing of similar lots east of Broadway to Glenarm.
Other readers will only certain acknowledge others that are worthy and then some of inclusion in the conversation, including those that are the west and north side of the river.
Those two in the corner unit on the 6th floor are probably going to bang…
good call, hopefully the final version has curtains!
I am glad I’m not the only one who saw what was about to go down. Curtains..!