Staying along the Broadway / Lincoln corridor, another project is gearing up for construction: 700 Lincoln. The site at East 7th Avenue and Lincoln Street formally featured a single-story retail building and accompanying surface parking lot. Just over a year ago, we mentioned in our Capitol Hill Roundup that 700 Lincoln was given the green light to move forward by the Downtown Design Advisory Board as the former retail building closed its doors.
Recently, crews started demolition at the project site, which is a hopeful sign that this project is progressing. The construction permits have been filed on the permitting side, and the right-of-way dedication filing states that the project is under construction; this is a reasonably confident sign that Lincoln Street will be getting an 18-story high-rise. Below are a few photos of the demotion activities taking place.
In addition to the demolition activities, a new rendering was filed with the construction permits. This latest rendering looks similar to the rendering submitted with the design review package but is more refined and details the facade elements. Overall, the brick and glass curtain wall combination will be a sharp addition to this area.
This stretch of Lincoln Street is sad. Riddled with surface parking lots, underutilized land on one side, and an office building with a terrible street presence on the other, 700 Lincoln should breathe fresh air into this corridor.
| Project Description | Developer | Architect | Contractor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Stories | 304 apt homes | 3,500 sq ft retail | 358 (v) 178 (b) parking | Carmel Partners | Davis Partnership | Carmel Partners |
A side benefit of this project is that it also removes a billboard! Billboards rank right up there with surface parking lots on the shitty-urbanism scale.
Fully agree about the Billboards.
But where else will we be able to see Frank Azar offer to valiantly fight on the behalf of the common people? Out of the goodness of his heart, of course.
But yeah—as sad as it is to see Turin go, these plots of land can be so much better utilized. Eighteen stories of homes anywhere in this city is so welcome (and needed). I tend to worry about retail through this stretch of thoroughfares, but 7th Ave right there is a bit of a walkable neighborhood. Something prominent on the corner might actually better connect everything to the arterial street.
Regarding the billboard, while this individual billboard will go away, Denver’s billboard ordinance allows another billboard to be installed somewhere else in the city as its replacement. The cap on the number of billboards is never lowered. Something that should be changed.
100% agree.
Do the construction permits say if they have permission to block off the bike lane? This is an important connection to the new Broadway bike lane.
I use the bus stop in front of this site multiple times a week. really excited to see work finally happening! this whole area of Broadway will be transformed in a few short years. now if we can just do something about the car dealership and the anthem office building nearby.
I agree with the benefits of redevelopment, but get concerned with the loss of community, either in terms of businesses, people, or architecture. Ok, I mourn the loss of Turin, the bike shop. All the bike shops, for that matter. But, for example, I just saw a demolition notice for the “other” PERA building that’s long sat vacant, at the northeast corner of Logan and 13th Avenue. It’s really a potentially worthwhile building to save (it has been identified as a possible candidate for landmark status). Why demolish that when there’s a block worth of parking lots across Logan? Strange, to me at least.
Very excited for this one. I don’t know how practical it would be but I’d love for the retail of these new projects to be able to open ASAP (as long as it’s safe to do so), while the rest of the building is constructed. They could have discounted rent while construction goes on.
Speaking of the bill boards, they’re literally meant to distract drivers and should be banned city wide. I envision it being done where A. No new ones can be built and B. If it needs to be replaced or some level of major repairs are required then too bad.