When we last visited the Hyatt Centric, the facade was starting to peek out, giving us a preview of what was to come. While facade work is still taking place, the project is now mostly complete on the exterior, and we now have a good idea of how the finished building will look. As a refresher, the Hyatt Centric is a 14-story building providing 263 rooms to Central Downtown.
Let’s start with some straight-on views of the building from both Champa and 18th Street. The facade is simple yet elegant with contrasting colors and a copper accent.
The ground floor is very inviting to pedestrians, with a two-story glass wall wrapped around the corner.
Here are a bunch more photos of the project. While work is still going on around the exterior, the fences were recently taken down, with a brand new sidewalk and landscaping for pedestrians to enjoy.
The Hyatt Centric fills in a previous unoccupied corner in Central Downtown, completing another block in the urban fabric. What a nice piece of infill we have gained.
The real building looks way better than the rendering (which almost never happens). Especially walking by on street level, it looks sharp and modern. It has a cool light feature at night that glows vertically from the main lobby entrance to the roof. I approve!
I lived in the neighboring Bruegger Bros building on the top floor (with roof deck) nearly 20 years ago and used to fantasize about something being built on this lot all the time. Amazing to see it finally happen after all these years.
*Buerger Bros
Looks great!
Is that a rooftop deck?
It sure is, The Centric Rooftop Terrace is 1,200 sqft for you to enjoy
Our presidential suite also has its own private rooftop terrace with mountain view.
Nice addition to that corner.
Wish it was a taller building like the Hilton Hotel up the street 42 stories
Denver has a problem of building small story buildings in downtown
Not like other cities Seattle.
I agree, I wish it was taller, but at least this design (and more importantly, execution) is higher quality like you’d see in Seattle. Wish we were getting this type of infill in Arapahoe Square…
I agree! If you’ve lived in Denver as long as I have you feel the skyline is tired. Three very boxy buildings dominate the skyline. Denver’s rank and image precedes what change has actually happened. Then of course it depends on how one views the perspective of the skyline. As a sidewalk pedestrian is one thing but viewing it from the vantage point of a resident in another tower or from a park’s hill is another.
Developers build what the market will bear. There are still too many vacant lots downtown to make super tall buildings viable. In a couple cycles when downtown land is getting scarce new buildings will get taller.
How does that theory apply to our three 50+ floor buildings that were built in the 1980’s? There was a lot more parking lots then. Unless the financing structure is like night and day from then, I don’t find that theory believable. When I look at a satellite of downtown Denver, I don’t see that much core space available that developers seem to afford such lower square footage to downtown’s potential, really. Certainly height isn’t considered fashionable logic for whatever environment is the focus. So whatever, we will learn to accept what comes into play. Too bad I don’t find it all that ambitious.
***What JS SAID!!!*** OMG – are we really having this exchange in the comments again? Again???
The market “theory” JS (and about 3,400 other commenters) put up is irrefutably, absolutely, totally confirmed. It is fact.
If ye want a new tallest, bring ye the dang money and make it happen!!!
I really like the look from the materials used on this building. A bit Frank Lloyd Wright. I counted 15 vacant lots that would be considered within the ‘unlimited height’ zoning area of Downtown Denver. That’s not including the River Mile area. How many decades might it take to fill up most of those areas mentioned with otherwise medium height buildings until a possible taller skyline defining building goes up? Especially after the newer expansion into RINO is taking much of the focus. I think it’s unfortunate that the city’s blocky skyline image transformation is out of the realm of possibility and pretty much considered completed judging from the last 35 years and the latest redirect in ambition to midrise building. No you can’t convince me that has anything to do with market when anything that gets built in Denver has filled up before, but I digress even more when we consider the negative impact of the pandemic.