After seven individual updates on The Pullman, it is time to wrap it up as the project is now complete. This 14-story, 142-home apartment project takes up the last developable parcel along Wewatta Street, in the Union Station neighborhood, and completes the Wewatta street-wall between the Cherry Creek and 20th Street.
For this last look of The Pullman, let’s start with various views from Wewatta Street along with one view from 19th Street. The brickwork and color scheme along 19th Street complement its neighbor, Alara, making it almost look like a second phase of the same project.
Heading down Wewatta, towards 16th Street, The Pullman terminates the view at the end of the Wewatta Street canyon due to the street curving after 18th Street.
Looking at the broad side of the building, you can see that the roof-line has three terraces. The lowest terrace is a large 8,000 square foot outdoor space for the residents. The next step up appears to host a private balcony for one of the penthouses.
A couple more unique views of The Pullman can be found in Union Station North where the Downtown and traditional street grids converge. Below are two views from Fox and Inca Street.
New street trees and wide sidewalks are a welcome addition to this fairly quiet stretch of Wewatta Street. 3,470 square feet of ground-floor retail is also featured in this project.
Let’s wrap up with a couple of aerials taken from 19th Street and Chestnut Place.
Welcome to Union Station, The Pullman! With only 3 developable lots left in Union Station, it’s amazing to see that this entire neighborhood has almost fully built out in less than a decade.
Great looking addition to DUS, though I am puzzled by the transparency of the glass. I would have thought a higher reflection would have been preferred for residential housing with that much glass. Regardless, fantastic project and hopefully the corona doesn’t delay or affect the lease-up too much!
Wonderful!
Great freaking photography! The composition on the last two is dreamy. Makes me think, ‘What an amazing city; wish I could live there.’ But then I’m like: ‘Oh wait; that’s right! I do!”
Thank you Freddie, I really appreciate that! 🙂
I like how Block 162 peeks out from the very middle of the left of the last two shots with a strong reflection. Agree that these two are stupendous shots!
Ryan – do you know what the use is of the water plant at Wewatta and 19th? Is this a privately owned parcel? It’s such an eye sore and definitely not the highest and best use of the land. I would love to see another office tower or residential tower built there in the future.
Jack, that is the Xcel Energy steam plant (https://www.xcelenergy.com/staticfiles/xe/PDF/2019DenverSteamFacts.pdf) that provides heat to a lot of the buildings downtown. The cost to relocate the plant outweighs the value of the land it sits on, so it’s not going anywhere anytime soon.
if they up zoned that parcel of land to allow a 300 ft tower, maybe that could motivate a relocation
The steam plant is a hub for the downtown steam lines. Even if you zoned it to 1144 heights, the costs of relocating the plant and running new steam lines would still likely outweigh the building / development costs.
Let’s upzone the last lot at 19th and Chestnut instead. It’ll be much easier than picking a fight with the steam plant.
If the city would want Xcel to move the steam plant, or a developer would be drooling over the parcel and just *had* to have it, you’re looking at about a $80-$100M, buyout. Xcel will not pass on the cost to their rateholders and would have to find an alternative site somewhere else downtown that would tie into the steam and water network. This would not be cheap.
That said, Xcel totally blew it when it added the new boiler to the existing plant. The project called for looking at reskinning the plant to better match the changed overarching site conditions versus when it was originally built, but that became a coat of gray paint instead of a massively upgraded facade. This was definitely a case of of an engineer-driven project with no consideration of aesthetics.
The steam plant was here long before any other new development in Union Station. People should have thought about that before spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build out the area. It really kills me to hear people gripe about this building when they go gaga over some new RiNo building using industrial materials such as corrugated panels or metal shipping containers in the construction. This is a real industrial building. Denver Infill folks, once and for all let it go!
Ughh! Really unfortunate city planning. That site has such potential given the protected views over the train tracks.
The steam plant was here LONG before any intentions of developing Union Station / CPV. Consider it an icon of industrial heritage of what was here before the redevelopment.
If you all want to complain about Xcel, come to the West side where they just cleared the lot and left it vacant, on Colfax. They even tore down the Girls Inc. fence that had a wonderful message.
It IS the second phase of Alara, same developer, same Architect. The 2 buildings connect under the shared alley with a 2-story underground parking garage even though you can’t drive through because the developers sold Alara before the Pullman was started.
I like how Block 162 peeks out from the very middle of the left of the last two shots with a strong reflection. Agree that these two are stupendous shots!