Construction keeps trekking along for X Denver and X Denver 2 in the Union Station North neighborhood. Tucked in the back of the neighborhood, these two projects have quite the presence as they are the tallest and largest developments in Union Station North. Upon completion, these two projects will provide a total of 455 apartment homes; X Denver totaling 251 homes, X Denver 2 totaling 204 homes.
When viewed from the Wewatta Street bridge, it’s hard to miss both buildings. Facade work is underway on X Denver which features dark metal paneling with a cyan accent up top.
Moving down into the neighborhood, here are a few photos from both Huron and Inca Street. A close-up of the metal paneling on X Denver is included in the set below.
Both of these projects have a prominent presence when viewed from City of Cuernavaca Park. Even though X Denver and X Denver 2 are separate projects, they will feature the same facades and look uniform.
That’s all for Union Station North. With only a couple of lots left, this neighborhood is very close to being completely built out.
Thank you for the update. Ryan, your photography is really good! I’m always impressed.
I’m pleasantly surprised by the materials on the facade. Much higher quality than I expected. Although I’ll reserve judgment on the Cyan portion until work is complete. Not sure how that’s gonna pan out.
But I’m a little disappointed that both buildings will have the same facade materials. With such a massive development, it would have been nice to change it up so it doesn’t look like one GIANT f’n building. It’s just a lot for this little enclave.
I don’t know about this, looks like a giant covid-19 hospital in preparation for the second wave. Is that institutional blue? Just add a smoke stack to complete the effect.
455 quarantined spaces, with COVID friendly shared spaces. Progress😝
This is no different than any other multi-family property right now. People and properties adapt to the situation. 🙂
These are GROSS! Thank god they’re tucked back in US-North where most people wont have to look at them all the time. Hopefully X-3 will incorporate a little more architectural creativity. The bar has been set very low.
The homogeneity of uses in Union Station North is now complete. Big, chunky facades all spilling on top of one another, with a sloped roof, balcony or brick motif to break up the monotony. The one, true retail strip in USN provides limited refuge, but little else breaks up the action. I see in the photos that CrossFit Lodo still stands, waiting for another MF building to spring into action.
If Denver wants great neighborhoods then we’ll need to think past density AND facade materials. These two projects are shaping up to be the great wall of boring. It appears the battle has been lost here, and we’ve all collectively lost the greater war for this neighborhood as well.
Lots of really prominent ground floor retail sits empty in Union Station proper right now—and that was pre-pandemic. Demand just isn’t as strong as urban planning enthusiasts believe. You can’t contrive balanced neighborhoods from just density alone. Gotta have foot traffic too. And you’re not going to get that unless there’s a reason to be there other than going home to bed. There’s a reason the city’s strongest neighborhoods sprung up around art, music, and independent social institutions—and not the whitewashed visions of monied developers and planning ideologues. We’re never going to fully utilize these spaces until more than just national corporate chains can afford to occupy them.
Really sad how ugly the buildings going up in LODO are. Zero thought or care to the surroundings.
Saw that X Denver 3 recently applied for a zoning permit. Interested in what that step means for the project. Does that mean that it will likely move forward?
Unrelated to this post, interested in learning what the plans are for the surface lot at the NW/C of 37th and Navajo, if this is in your realm of coverage. Surface lot that was recently purchased (I only know from the Generator Real Estate window) and has had a partial demo of an adjacent abandoned structure, and fencing corralling the site. This is the only commercial corridor of the NE/C of Lower Highlands that is not 38th St. Would be great to see some mixed use instead of pure residential as the rest of the neighborhood reaching to about 33rd and Tejon is.