A new hostel may be built across the street from the 30th and Downing transit station in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood.
Denver-based Mainspring Development is planning to develop a five-story hostel (potentially named Cabarita House) at 3030 Welton, currently an empty lot. The site is located across Welton from RTD’s light rail station on the L line. Below is a Google Earth aerial with the site outlined, along with a Google Street View image of the vacant parcel.
The project’s initial Concept Plan was filed with the city during the summer of 2018. The project has since advanced to the Site Development Plan phase, which was submitted to the Denver planning office on March 5, 2019. The project is still under review.
According to plans on file with the city, the project would stack up as follows:
The ground-floor would include a small retail space facing the sidewalk and six automobile parking spaces in the rear of the building. Private guest rooms would be located on Floor 2 while dormitory-style guest rooms would be found on Floors 3 and 4. The top floor would contain guest check-in and a lounge. Storage and laundry facilities would be located in the basement. For more information on the project, check out this BusinessDen article from earlier this month.
The concept renderings presented below are courtesy of Mainspring and the project architect, Semple Brown. These renderings should be considered as preliminary and subject to change and refinement, given that the project is still under review and has not yet received its final approvals from the city.
If all goes as planned, construction may begin in 2020.
Yikes, those blank walls! I don’t really understand the set back from five stories to one story either. Lets hope the final design looks better than this.
Yeah, good lord that “preliminary” rendering is a awful and I hope Five Points gets design review on this property so the actual becomes something that the neighborhood wants.
Cool to see hotels with different price points going up. Now they just need to finish extending that light rail line to the A-line.
I like the people on the 5th floor.
“Hey everybody, look at this thing I’m pointing at!”
“No, I’m too busy pointing at this other thing!”
“Would you guys shut up! I’m trying to point at something here!”
Maybe they are flagging down a police helicopter…looks like some manner of pitched street battle happening below. …Don’t even want to know what’s happening at bottom left…
It does kind of have that “Book Depository” feel to it.
Clearly the two gentlemen standing in front of the proposed building are about to get attacked by a zombie. The pregnant guy sitting on the porch is also getting attacked by a zombie. The two gentlemen on the lower left? It’s not what you think! They’re probably just having an innocent disco party. Then again, considering all the other zombie attacks taking place along the same block, it could be another zombie attack. It’s hard to say. Such a mystery this rendering is.
It sure would be nice if we could see that light rail finished up to the blake st station before 2045 or whenever it’s expected to deliver.
silly entourage aside, I see nothing wrong with this preliminary design.
5-stories adjacent to 1-story? Sure, but you’re also located at the intersection of two busy and commercial streets – the density is entirely appropriate.
The idea of putting a hostel (aimed at younger guests) adjacent to a light rail stop will encourage street-level and pedestrian vitality that 5-points to desperately needs.
This is exactly the type of development that can help spur a 5-Points Renaissance.