41st and Fox Roundup APR 2023

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Fox Iron Works. The building is topped out, and crews are working hard to add the facade, building sidewalks, and other resident amenities. This is a big building whose backside neatly defines the southern extent of the Fox Park redevelopment. It isn’t always clear on a map, so we’ll spell it out: this apartment building is just steps from the station and overparked, though it avoids surface parking. Eventually, the building will read to passersby as a legible, perhaps even modest, building along the Fox Street residential and commercial corridor. Still, like many of these newly booming station areas, it dominates its surroundings for now.

Alloy Sunnyside. Alloy Sunnyside topped out a couple of months ago. The building’s upper mass steps back from the intersection of 42nd and Jason along the north frontage, but viewed from the south, it seems simply another tall box. Alloy Sunnyside will fill out the street wall along the Jason Street commercial corridor once finished, and we’re glad to see denser multifamily on the west side of the tracks; all up and down Jason lots are being replaced with townhome development, and local retailers will be a boon to the busier neighborhood.

Iota Fox Station. In the last six months, construction has progressed quickly. The building topped out, and crews are at work waterproofing the building and preparing for the application of the building’s facade. Caught on camera tests the facade system constructed and waiting across the street, north of 41st. The unscreened portion of the parking garage will eventually be covered up when 4040 Fox breaks ground. Still, the upper part of the building and its amenity deck will peak above that block-long development.

PROPOSED

4040 Fox Street. As we took photos for this post, it took a while to notice the property had been cleared, and a fence now surrounds it. It makes sense: with a construction permit in hand, we should see this development break ground soon.

805 W 38th Ave. Six months on, the demolition of the three former warehouses has been completed. Hopefully, the site is fertile ground for this tower, which would become the tallest building on “Fox Island.” The group proposing the development recently purchased the site, another good sign that this project will break ground (eventually). Enjoy the rendering from the architect’s website, which proposes an otherwise Denver-typical tower above a podium with a somewhat-novel jagged treatment of the south face of the building.

735 W 39th Ave. While visiting the site, we witnessed the ongoing demolition of old industrial buildings (and several murals that used to grace these vacant lots), all in preparation for future development. Like its neighboring site, this is a complex development; it will take longer to break ground. Though the sites have different owners, both are being planned and permitted with Kimley-Horn. Realistically, this development isn’t one building at the corner of 39th and Fox but more like three related projects. We can gain a glimpse into the developer’s plans from their Zone Lot Amendment application from January:

“The Site currently consists of light industrial structures and associated surface parking that will be demolished as a part of the Project. The project will include 5 and 7-story residential buildings, up to 8-stories of structured parking and two pedestrian bridges spanning the new street-grid.”

Fox Park. Six months since we last visited Fox Park, the entire site has been cleared completely, and active construction is underway on what will become the future street, sewer, and water infrastructure. Lording over the barren land is the former Denver Post printing facility, which will be renovated and reused as a centerpiece of the site, known as the “Press Room.”