AMLI Riverfront Green is now complete with residents starting to move in. This project is significant to the Riverfront Park neighborhood as it filled in the last large open parcel. In addition to filling in a fenced off dirt field, AMLI Riverfront Green also provides the neighborhood with 304 residential units.
DenverInfill visited this project several times since its announcement almost exactly four years ago. Follow the link below to see all of its progress.
AMLI Riverfront Green Post History
Let’s start the final update with a couple photos from 18th Street and Bassett Street. The entire building is clad in multi-colored brick which came out looking sharp. This side of the project features a golden yellow brick.
Moving right along, the building steps down, from seven to four stories, at the corner of 18th Street and Little Raven Street. Townhomes face the park all along the Little Raven Street side of the project.
AMLI Riverfront Green doesn’t go all the way to the corner of Little Raven Street and Bassett street. The last little remaining parcel is dedicated to a single family home which is currently under-construction.
Upon completion, there are now two complete street-walls in the neighborhood; one along Bassett Street, the other along 18th Street.
Wrapping up, here are two last photos of the project from the top of the hill at Commons Park. You can see the all the different hues of brick peeking out.
Welcome to the neighborhood, AMLI Riverfront Green!
In my opinion, all full block developments up to 8 stories should be designed such as this building. I like how the exterior is broken up to mimic several interconnected, human scale structures even though it is still one building.
Jeez those are wide streets…built for speeding…
Weird. Don’t know where you’re seeing wide streets. :/
Just saying, as a frequent cyclist/pedestrian through this stretch, it might have the slowest average car speed of any comparable road in any part of the city. The curvature/regular stop signs/walking traffic make it very difficult to exceed even 15 mph. Plenty of other thoroughfares deserve our attention. This isn’t one of them.
I really like this architecture overall — nice building — but I find it odd that there are a couple hideous, featureless walls made from cheap materials thrown in at the two acute-angle corners. How much money did they really save by giving up on two tiny sections of such a large building? The rich developer guy who’s going to live in that single family home (or was that just a rumor?) sure gave himself one ugly wall to look at.
Other than those two cheap sections, I really like this building. As pablosan said, the street walls look great thanks to the way the exterior is broken up into sections of different heights, colors, and materials.
I imagine the “single family home” will be a straight stunner
they built that to a very nice scale and I love the mixture of exterior materials
The fact that a single family home is being built downtown is a true testament to peak economy.
I like the massing, the broken down scale and the street level. I think there are too many different materials and colors that give it a clunky disorganized feel.
For the last ten years, at least, there has been an architecture fad of breaking up the facade of a building with different colors and materials, and I generally don’t like it. It felt odd to me to appreciate this particular architecture for doing just that when I hate it so much on just about everything else. I think what made the difference for me here is, instead of randomly mixing it all together, tetris style, like so many architects are doing for some reason I’ll never understand, this one is split up horizontally into sections, to mimic multiple buildings that abut.
(I’m not trying to rebut your comment or anything. Just adding to the conversation I guess. I can see why one might think it’s clunky.)
I agree it is better then the random tetris look. I don’t like all the dog ear parapets that result from expressing the outer wall as a thin plain. And all the different material looks like the architects picked from a buffet of vendor catalogs. A little bit of everything.
I think this turned out very nicely.
Well done PBA, love how the glazed brick came out, and the responsive, well broken up massing.
This is one beautiful piece of property! I plan on taking a tour of the location soon. Thank you for the update.
Appreciate all the comments. I head up AMLI development here in Denver and this project has been a long labor of love. I personally think it turned out great, but I am obviously biased. The glazed brick was panned early on as a children’s museum look but glad that most people enjoy the vision and execution. It was certainly not easy to source these materials and get them built in a manner and level of finish a piece of real estate like this deserved.
Any word on what the construction is on the southern side of the lot? Rumor is it’s the single family home of the developer.
It’s for sure –one mont hsince any news of new development in the downtown area – the boom is over!!
Hardly. Just within the past couple of weeks I’ve heard of at least two or three new projects in the downtown area. We’re just really busy. Check out BusinessDen for development news. They have paid reporters. DenverInfill is a volunteer/personal hobby of Ryan and Ken.
Hanging it up?
Have you guys closed this site?
Thanks for the monumental effort you guys have put into this website. I have learned a lot over the years from your efforts.
Great Job Ken
I was wondering what the status is on the
Tabor Tower 2
33 story office tower on the corner of 17th and Larimer St.
Last i heard it was in the Denver Planning and Development Department
waiting for approval . That was back in Feb 2018.
I hope it gets built soon
Anybody home?
Are there going to be any semi-annual reports for both residential and commercial projects. I did not find the 6-30-19 posts of these reports. Seems to be first ones missed in the history of this blog. Also, why no new postings to the blog for over five weeks. It seems that this blog is no longer active.
Due to demands on our time, we were unable to do our June 2019 six-month update. But we will be doing a big “end of decade” wrap up at the end of the year.
Thanks Ken for all you and Ryan do
Just wanted to say thanks for all the work that has gone in to producing this website. I have really enjoyed the updates giving context to the growth in Denver. I hope you all will continue to update the site when able.
I also hope the comments didn’t drive you to despair 😉 A lot of your visitors are silent perusers like me I would expect, and I for one have done a bad job leaving positive comments to reinforce the enjoyment I take in the work you all have accomplished.
Thanks again,
Ryan M
Thanks everyone!
What is the update on Tabor Tower II and also on Bell Tower? I read that Bell Tower is currently under construction is that true?
Nothing on Tabor II–inactive it would appear–and Bell Tower is not under construction.
You peeps okay? Been a minute since you’ve updated!
I check this website twice a day, so I have been wondering if it was closed down. Thanks Ryan and Ken for your work. It is absolutely appreciated. Can’t wait for more. You guys need a podcast!
Do you guys need some help with keeping this website going?