Let’s head over to the Golden Triangle, where there are projects aplenty, with more starting soon. Outside of River North, the Golden Triangle has the second largest concentration of tower cranes on the Denver Skyline, with a total of six cranes. Come next year, we will likely see that number increase as there are a handful of projects gearing up.
Last Roundup: Golden Triangle June 2022
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
990 Bannock. With work beginning on the eighth floor, 990 Bannock is officially over halfway in vertical progress. In addition, it’s not very common to see the facade go up almost as quickly as the primary structure, but we can get a peek at the grey and white cladding.
Project Description | Developer | Architect | Contractor |
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14 Stories | 224 apt homes | 205 (v) 123 (b) parking | LMC | Shears Adkins Rockmore | Weitz |
Modera Golden Triangle. This almost block-long project recently broke the height of the street level, with work beginning on the second floor. In the coming years, this part of Golden Triangle will have transformed from 1960s office buildings, with accompanying surface parking lots, to a cluster of residential and mixed-use buildings.
Project Description | Developer | Architect | Contractor |
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8 Stories | 326 apt homes | 4,500 sf retail | 391 (v) parking | Mill Creek | Davis Partnership | Milender White |
Evans West. At five stories, Evans West is already making quite a statement along Bannock Street. This new 19-story building provides quite the upgrade in density as it replaces a single-story office building and accompanying surface parking lot.
Project Description | Developer | Architect | Contractor |
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19 Stories | 420 apt homes | 6,700 sf retail | 530 (v) 226 (b) parking | LMC | Davis Partnership | GE Johnson |
Patten Gray. In our last roundup, we noted that demolition was underway at the corner of 12th Avenue and Delaware Street. Present-day, Patten Gray, formally mentioned as 1158 Delaware, is under construction and has a new tower crane, with work already beginning on the second floor.
Project Description | Developer | Architect | Contractor |
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13 Stories | 250 apt homes | 2,000 sf retail | 246 (v) parking | Summit Capital | Studio PBA | ARCO Murray |
The Finch. Site preparations are complete for the entire city block project at Colfax Avenue and Fox Street. With the site cleared, excavation and shoring are now underway.
Project Description | Developer | Architect | Contractor |
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7 Stories | 370 apt homes | 536 (v) parking | Embrey | Kephart | Embrey |
PROPOSED
AMLI Golden Triangle. Demolition for a new 16-story project is underway at 8th Avenue and Broadway. A commercial construction permit has yet to be filed for this project, so currently, it will stay in the proposed category as site preparations are still technically underway. However, as demolition wraps up in the coming weeks, we should see those permits come through.
Project Description | Developer | Architect | Contractor |
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16 Stories | 372 apt homes | 12,400 sf retail | 495 (v) parking | AMLI | Davis Partnership | Milender White |
955 Bannock. Site preparations are underway for a new 12-story project across the street from 990 Bannock. The two-story building was recently demolished, and construction equipment has begun to move onto the project site. We should expect to see this project officially start construction soon.
Project Description | Developer | Architect | Most Recent Activity |
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12 Stories | 105 apt homes | 79 (v) 50 (b) parking | Alpine Investments | OZ Architecture | Building Permit (2022-08-07) |
1201 Cherokee. This month, a new proposal at the northwest corner of 12th Avenue and Cherokee Street is going before the Downtown Design Advisory Board. The footprint of this new 19-story tower is relatively small, making it a point tower form, something we have yet to see in the Golden Triangle. Below are some preliminary renderings, extracted from the documents submitted to the board. In addition, the renderings show another project behind 1201 Cherokee that would supplant the block’s remaining large surface parking lot; this is not part of 1201 Cherokee. The point tower is still in the concept plan status but may move forward after the meeting this month; the board has approved the site and massing.
Project Description | Developer | Architect | Most Recent Activity |
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19 Stories | 172 apt homes | 4,100 sf retail | 71 (v) parking |
TBD |
Carvell Architects | Urban Design (2022-10-26) |
11th & Cherokee. The 23-story project proposed for the northwest corner of West 11th Avenue and Cherokee Street went through design review in June. While this project will replace two low-density buildings, it will cantilever over the existing Cherokee Row building at the corner. Below are a few massing renderings from the documents submitted to the Downtown Design Advisory Board.
Project Description | Developer | Architect | Most Recent Activity |
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23 Stories | 400 apt homes | 340 (v) parking | Century Real Estate | Shears Adkins Rockmore |
Site Development Plan (2022-07-29) |
Parq II. While no activity is taking place at the project site yet, a building permit was filed in July, signaling that this project has a good chance of moving forward.
Project Description | Developer | Architect | Most Recent Activity |
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17 Stories | 310 apt homes | 8,000 sf retail | 382 (v) parking | Greystar | ZCA Residential | Building Permit (2022-07-21) |
1215 Elati. The new 23-story project at 1215 Elati is moving along, with a site development plan filed in July. The lot currently contains some surface parking and low-density buildings. The project went through design review for massing; however, no renderings are available at this time.
Project Description | Developer | Architect | Most Recent Activity |
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23 Stories | 400 apt homes | 340 (v) parking | Century Real Estate | Shears Adkins Rockmore |
Site Development Plan (2022-07-29) |
That’s a wrap for the Golden Triangle. While many of the concept plans filed in June have been inactive for some time, it is exciting to see some development moving forward.
Maps for projects mentioned in this post:
990 Bannock
Modera Golden Triangle
Evans West
Patten Gray
The Finch
AMLI Golden Triangle
955 Bannock
1201 Cherokee
11th and Cherokee
Parq II
1215 Elati
Thanks for the Roundup! What is going on with Evans East? LMC is well-capitalized and I thought the permitting was done in the Spring
Everything has too much parking and isn’t tall enough. Let’s just get this out of the way.
The amount of parking being added to this neighborhood is, pardon the usage, ********. Plans for thousands of cars to be added to this small slice of Denver. The 1.4 parking ratio for The Finch ON COLFAX is particularly infuriating. Beyond nonsense that this hasn’t been fixed in zoning/code. We need parking maximums yesterday.
Yeah, we need housing, not parking garages.
Parking podiums everywhere… sigh. And Denver remains a city built for cars, not people.
Nice to see! Yeah to point towers, bleh to thrifty land barges. I always find the parking and barrage of attitude toward cars simple minded and whishy. Do we forget Denver isn’t a sunbelt city, it’s a four season city and for that reason commuting alternatives by foot, bicycle or scooter is more of a sacrifice of convenience in trade for some what? A finer fit rugged individualism thing? Especially in the winter. Ever since Earth Day One in 1970 Denver’s environmental groups and committees have struggled with how to slow it’s growth over the decades. Ah it’s that dirty filthy human consumer again, growth is bad and needs to be tackled down and harnessed like some shrew. Oh the snow covered bike paths sung by Emmy Lou Harris. Municipal councils grinding it down through countless regulatory filters in hopes to create the best of all exclusive utopian outcomes. How to re-invent cities. And the localism, so poetic. You either have an economy that works for the many or the few which makes for the result something is missing. I have not seen how that really works in any big city places across the country. Boulder, Petaluma, Madison smaller places but the raving ideal of it all just gets too bitterly bickering to what seems like to create ideal exclusive sniffy neighborhoods. No not for those no no’s who don’t belong. Have a sit down with the xyz developer trying to sell the units. Isn’t the market defined by whether or not it has parking not by it’s utopian lowest carbon foot print? I know it’s just the way it is, it’s the troglodyte trickle down thing where the economy continues to seep through the entitled sludge damns and yet not to transform those special incentivized taxation long enjoyed by those the special tax sheltered. Why do anything extraordinary when we have the ordinary? Hallelujah.
My head hurts!
Regarding; 1201 Cherokee: 1201 Cherokee is the North West Corner, The South East Corner in Century Lofts! Thanks for the Update
1201 Cherokee is on the Northwest Corner. Not the Southeast Corner, that would be Century Lofts! Excellent Update
Isn’t that the NW corner of 12th and Cherokee?
Thanks everyone for the 1201 Cherokee correction. The post has been updated.
I hope these new developments have a better management company than that of Eviva. It’s literally an oversized dorm building in an area filled with trash and un-maintained parking lots.
The management company that runs Eviva is Equity Residential. They have a sizable portfolio in Colorado. All of their buildings are modern and well-kept, staffed by hard-working people and rented by hard-working people.
Your comments are unintelligent and show a lack of awareness.
Eviva is not an ‘oversized dorm room.’ It’s a gorgeous building with modern amenities. Your comments seem to imply that there’s a younger, rowdy element renting there in large numbers. How would you know that? And if that were true, how is that different from other buildings? Does Eviva stand alone in that distinction? No, it does not.
You claim that Eviva is situated in a an ‘area filled with trash and un-maintained parking lots.’ Is that Eviva’s fault? Is that Equity Residential’s fault? No and no. It is ridiculous to claim that any management company is to blame for being surrounded by parking lots, or trash. You have no proof that said trash is a result of Eviva, Equity Residential, or the residents of the building. You don’t know where that trash came from. And you’d love to park in those lots if you were visiting the area, I bet…
In regards to the claim that Eviva is a ‘dorm’: perhaps the residents skew younger. That’s organic (and not the fault, or the mission, of Equity Residential). A property management company doesn’t choose their clientele. If a person rents a unit, they tell their friends, how check out the building, like it, then enter into a lease agreement of their own in the building. That’s how any building sees a preponderance of a demographic among their residents.
There are a lot of buildings in Denver that could be described as ‘oversized dorm buildings’ and some of them are adjacent to parking lots, where the wind might have blown some trash… The Lincoln at Speer, for example, is one of those buildings. It’s not very far from Eviva. Being close to the universities, it sees a lot of student residents. Due to the low-ish rent, there are also a lot of muslim residents. I dare you to ridicule the building for being an over-sized dorm building, with trash and unkempt parking lots, etc., nearby. Go ahead. Do that.
I bet you live in Wash Park or some spacious suburb, in a house with a yard. From there, you turn up your nose at property management companies you know nothing about, a body of residents you know nothing about.
I “toured” Eviva about a year ago and have to say I agree with the initial comment- I arrived and the leasing agent wasn’t there for the appointment I had pre-arranged, a receptionist at the leasing front desk vaguely apologized and handed me an envelope with a few keys but couldn’t answer any questions I had, and I walked around the building trying to find the units I was supposed to see by myself. Most of the common areas had some amount of construction going on or were closed entirely. Trash in the parking areas. Random construction material sitting in the hallways. Really hope this isn’t the norm for all these buildings going up.
Any information about the plans for the SW corner of Bannock and 12th? I’ve read before about plans for a large tower, but haven’t seen any movement until recently. I live on that block and have noticed a few indicators that might mean they’re preparing for demo.