The parking lot at 18th and Glenarm is now closed with a fence around the property. When looking at all the permits filed with the city, in addition to the closed lot, it is a good sign that construction is on the horizon for Amacon’s twin-tower condo project. As a refresher, this project will feature two towers, one 38-story tower containing 270 for-sale condo homes and one 32-story tower containing 191 for-sale condo homes. In total, that’s 461 for-sale condos.
Here are a few more photos of the project site present day.
Lastly, here is a fresh rendering pulled from the construction documents filed with the city. The architect on record is Davis Partnership.
We are very hopeful to see this project break ground. Not only does it replace a terrible surface parking lot in Upper Downtown, it also gives Downtown Denver some much-needed condos.
Should be a good impact to the skyline from City Park and maybe from Coors Field. I used to walk around this area during my lunch breaks. I never knew why it took so long to fill in, but hopefully this will bring more infill to that area.
Hi folks, really enjoy reading the site! I am wondering if you are following the progress of the site at 13th and Sherman. I saw it was mentioned as “Capitol Square Apartments” way back in the 2019 year-end proposed residential roundup. They are now up to the third floor framing, with concrete foundation / first floor already wrapped up.
Hey Andrew, yes! Capitol Hill is on the list for photos including that project. We’ll be out there within the next couple of weeks.
Pretty nice
I hope this design pans out as the illustration. It should impact the blandness of the surrounding buildings…Ryan, is there any plans of that huge parking lot across Broadway. Another tall building on this lot would further enhance a compelling interest to this area of downtown?
As far as I know there are no other plans for those lots across the street.
I hope those condos go up! For all of the great changes that have happened to Denver in the last couple of decades, the vantage from photo at top looks depressingly similar to what it might have looked like if taken when I was in college in the late 80s. (The Spire in the distance is new, yes.)
Great! I was wondering about that fence. And having more renderings means things could begin. As far as impact on the skyline from a distance, I think it’s more just higher than normal infill development that will do just that, add more bulk to the overall density and add more residents to the core which is good. As far as anything taller that will impact the skyline in anyway to offset the decades old boxy giants, I don’t think the infrastructure fabric of downtown could serve it. Possibly more housing but not more large office projects and I say that because it doesn’t make sense to be downsizing in particular auto access to the central grid now making way primarily for bicycles and scooters in theory if the office space were to increase say by 50% in the far future. Doesn’t action we take today also grow the bones for the middle of the century? No matter what the ‘good market’ might bare in the meantime, wouldn’t more aggressive developers be shy to invest in such larger taller projects and because the transformed vision relaxing Denver from the big city type of hustle is making it exclusive to just any infrastructure expansion? So in short without an all inclusive infrastructure expansion, not too far from now, additional square footage of any kind will be extremely limited. Thanks!
Why did you stop tagging your posts? It was always really nice to click a development’s name and see the history of posts related to that development. Or am I missing something?
We still tag the posts and they can all be found on the projects page: https://denverinfill.com/projects
We took them out of the posts themselves for uniformity on the homepage, archive, and project specific pages. In the past, it wasn’t possible to keep the tag at the bottom of the post and keep it out of the tiles. I can check again to see if that is possible. (It would be nice)
Does this development go all the way to Welton St? The rendering looks like it does. I am not sure how they will fit two towers in half the block that is currently fenced.
Do we know who is doing this?
Their site does not extend to Welton St.
Amacon GC’s their projects.
The commuter rail train crossing between the development and 1999 Broadway would be an interesting development…
I could see myself living there.
Great news on the new commuter train service to central Denver! That will really help that area! Hopefully won’t be too disruptive of downtown traffic.