A major project in the Golden Triangle is gearing up to start construction. The block-long site on the west side of Broadway, between 8th and 9th Avenue, is fenced off, with logos for the general contractor, Milender White, on the screening. At 16-stories, AMLI Golden Triangle will have quite an impact along Broadway, standing taller than its surroundings along the corridor.
Let’s start with a few photos of the project site. Below, you can see that this part of Broadway is fairly desolate, so the infill here is very welcome.
Two single-story buildings, and an accompanying underground parking structure, will be demolished to make way for AMLI Golden Triangle. Here are a few more photos showing the existing buildings.
As of August 16, a building permit application has been filed with the city and is currently under review. Given fences are around the site, we should see demolition commence soon. For a rendering refresher, head on over here.
| Project Description | Developer | Architect | Contractor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Stories | 372 apt homes | 12,400 sf retail | 495 (v) parking | AMLI | Davis Partnership | Milender White |
Appreciate the refresher. Those renderings are so much more impactful when you can begin to imagine them built on these demolition sites. Rode past this area last night. This building is going to make a major impact on this corridor. Hopefully it also portends the demise of a couple nearby parking lots.
Great news! This building is awesome and should provide great street presence on Broadway!! I’m surprised more people haven’t commented on this post!
I like the initial renders of this project and excited to see this get started. It really seems as if downtown is growing into RiNo and Golden Triangle with all these 15-20 story apartments. Lets just hope the retail at the bottom is filled quickly!
There aren’t many a new developments in the entire city where ground-floor retail is thriving. And the Golden Triangle, traditionally, has had a very difficult time keeping storefronts of any kind open.
I’ve made this argument here before, but any neighborhood will have a difficult time sustaining retail, no matter how many housing units get built, when it’s outlined and bisected by so many major thoroughfares. (i.e. 13th Ave., 6th Ave., Speer, Lincoln, Broadway, etc.) It encourages consumers to drive right by toward something else. And as long as all this “ground floor retail” is priced so only major national chains can afford it, then all of it will continue to remain empty. Or more accurately? Never even occupied in the first place.
There seems to be a missing link between multi-use urbanism and the local entrepreneurial community and I wish someone smarter than me could solve that.
Pretty soon most this city’s rentals are going to be controlled by private companies. Maybe we’re there already. Anybody concerned about that?
Who else would they be owned by? Public companies? How is that better?
My guess is he’s in favor of residential property being owned by private *individuals*, and I’d argue there isn’t much difference, in practice, given that many of these individual owners of property are outsourcing their landlord responsibilities to the very same management companies. The market is still the market, no matter who owns the property, and as long the quantity of housing continues to fail the needs of the population, it’s going to put undue pressure on the lowest earners.
City planners should both continue to encourage and incentivize high-density developments, like this building, and fill housing gaps with public resources. Both. More. Lot’s more.
Individuals.
It’s an odd design. It looks like a revamp of the ‘Brutalism’ of the early 70’s. I wonder what it looks like from the other side and how it relates to the adjacent buildings. I don’t hate it, but it seems a bit overbearing.
Totally unrelated to this project, but I was wondering if Denverinfill is planning on doing an update on the Cherry Creek West redevelopment plan? I always enjoy your posts. Thanks!
We will definitely be covering Cherry Creek West!
Great! Thanks
I live in the Via Apartments, and have been watching the demolition with some sadness, because we are going to lose half of our beautiful mountain view when this new building goes up.