A new office building with ground-floor restaurant space is under construction at the corner of West 32nd Avenue and Vallejo Street in Lower Highland. The site is shown below on a Google Earth aerial:
According to the project’s site development plan approved by the city, the “LoHi Offices on 32nd” project will consist of a three-story building featuring two restaurant spaces totaling about 5,000 square feet on the ground floor and approximately 25,000 square feet of office space on the second and third floors. The second floor also includes a mezzanine. Parking for automobiles (54 spaces) and bikes (18 spaces) will be accommodated on part of the ground floor in the rear of the building and on two underground levels. The roof will contain an outdoor terrace for tenants, and a recessed courtyard in the front leads to the building entry and provides patio space for the restaurants.
Here are two renderings, courtesy of Elevate Architecture. The project is being developed by City Street Investors.
Construction got underway a couple of weeks ago. Here’s the site as of last weekend:
The project’s ground-floor restaurants will contribute to the emerging “restaurant row” along West 32nd Avenue, and the office uses will be a nice complement to the significant number of new homes that have been developed recently in the area.
This looks rad. I like it.
Nice, appropriate, dense, thoughtful, engaging development. Total opposite of the slot homes under construction across the street.
It sounds suspiciously like we’re getting a 1:1 parking ratio by square footage. 2 1/2 stories of parking versus 2 1/2 stories of actual useable space. This city needs parking maximums.
Man, I really wish I could come on and see you post something different once in a while. I think we are all on the same page here, no need to constantly restate your point…
There’s a story of a new preacher at a church. Everyone was very excited to hear him preach and when his first sunday came around they weren’t disappointed, his sermon was powerful, insightful, and inspiring. The congregation couldn’t wait to hear him next Sunday.
Well, next Sunday comes around and the preacher steps up to the podium and preaches the exact same sermon, word for word. The congregation is confused but tolerant, it’s a good sermon and they’re happy to hear it again but they don’t understand; maybe he mixed up his notes?
The third Sunday rolls around and everyone has convinced themselves that the previous Sunday must have been a mistake. Surely the preacher would have a new sermon for them to hear and digest, but no, it’s the same one word for word. The congregation is well and truly confused now and asks the lay preacher to have a word. He consents.
So he goes to the preacher later that afternoon and says to him, “Pastor, I want you to know that I love your preaching style, and you’ve said things that the congregation has been happy to hear about right-living and justice, but they’re beginning to wonder if you’re ever going to move on from this sermon you’ve given, which everyone says is great, and preach on something new?”
The preacher replies, “I’ll be happy to move on to a new subject when the congregation starts living as if they’ve heard the first one.”
Well, here is another statistic. The average space per employee for office buildings is now 151 sq. ft. down from 225 in 2010. That informations from here.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/companies-are-packing-workers-in-like-sardines/
In 25,000 sq. ft. of office space there could be 111-165 people, which puts the parking space to person ratio at 2-3 employees per parking space. That still may be too much given the location, but…that is a much different way at looking at the amount of space dedicated to parking.
If our transit system wasn’t garbage (RTD I am looking at you) less parking might make sense. The developers are probably meeting demands of the current market…I suspect It is still faster and/or more convenient for most people to drive to work, even in this neighborhood.