Let’s swing around to Union Station North and check on a 12-story building that’s going up quickly. X Denver will be the tallest building, by quite a margin, in Union Station North and will end up providing 251 units of apartment housing.
Currently, X Denver is eight stories up with work beginning on the ninth. Because the structure is steel, the cores have already topped out with the structure catching up. This gives us a good idea of how tall the building will be.
Below are two more photos showing the project from City of Cuernavaca Park.
Due to the swift nature of steel builds, we should see this building top out before all the leaves are gone.
Has an official, full building rendering ever been released for this project? Thanks as always for the posts.
Not that we have seen. There was one on the architect’s website (Studio PBA) that has been taken down.
I’m concerned about how adding so many residential units here will affect the 20th & Chestnut and 21st and Wewatta intersections, this neighborhood is a bit strange because it is only accessible by these two intersections and I wonder if some changes to these intersections may be necessary to accommodate the additional trips generated by this building (and the potential hotel that has been discussed for the site by the express overpass).
I live a block away from the 20th and Chestnut intersection and it’s a very quiet intersection going into DUS and USN. I’m not sure what could or would “need” to change, it’s fine as it is now. Even off of Wewatta, it’s still quiet. I just don’t think a ton of people drive who live in this area.
That’s good to hear, I also lived in this area until recently, agree that there wasn’t any glaring problems with those intersections previously but I rarely experienced the 20th & Chestnut intersection from north of 20th so I wasn’t sure. And while it’s moreso a personal preference than a problem, I hate how clunky USN is in that the 20th & Chestnut intersection and the 29th & Chestnut intersection are so close together (and how close Inca is to Chestnut), and that when entering from Wewatta, you have to snake your way around the apartment buildings to get into the neighborhood.
I guess the only thing that I could see Denver doing is to add a stoplight at 21st & Wewatta, not sure if that will be necessary, probably depends on how many left turners there are leaving USN there.
They’d likely need a signal warrant justifying the stop light and I doubt there are enough vehicle counts in that area to justify it…
I’m surprised to hear you think this a lightly trafficked intersection. I bike through here twice daily at rush hour and it always has at least several people at each corner, with the corner in front of King Soopers busiest. On a Rockies home game there an be easily 10x the peds. If you are a ped crossing 20th from the Hilton corner into DUN, you have to play frogger with cars getting a short arrow from Chestnut left onto 20th. On days I drive, the right turn lane heading into lodo backs up and sometimes doesn’t move bc of walkers crossing Chestnut so cars turning right into Chestnut can’t go on green. I always mention to mu wife the intersection is dangerous and over crowded and needs a solution.
USN* not DUN
Hasn’t this neighborhood in the past been known as PROSPECT, when Dana Crawford was the original developer? Seems a much better monikor than USN.
They re-branded back in 2016 and even have a sign now. https://www.westword.com/news/welcome-to-union-station-north-a-new-neighborhood-in-old-denver-8111410
Hey, not sure if your focus ever drifts to extreme-southeast Denver, but a hideous abandoned megastore (and its hideous massive parking lot) got snapped up by a development group.
https://businessden.com/2019/09/24/former-kmart-site-in-southeast-denver-vacant-since-2013-sells-for-10-5m/
Hopefully they put something cool there!