As we all know, Cherry Creek is currently going through a very large boom adding hotels, retail, apartments, condos and offices. Since the neighborhood is fairly small, in regards to land size, it is easy to map out from a low elevation aerial perspective. This is where my drone comes in handy!
Let’s begin with some numbers. From when we started reporting on the boom back in 2013, there are 626 Apartments, 80 Condos, 524 Hotel Rooms, 351,000 square feet of office space, and 194,600 square feet of retail getting added to the neighborhood. This does not include proposed projects. That’s a lot of development for Cherry Creek!
Now to the aerial. Each colored dot represents a project that is either under construction or complete; this visual does not include proposed projects. RED is retail, BLUE is office, GREEN is hotel, and YELLOW is residential.
Obviously, click to embiggen.
Here is the same aerial with the project labels removed.
Finally, for those who like a clean aerial, here is the original panorama.
With the compact size of this neighborhood, it will be fun to explore various aerial perspectives in the future as the boom rolls on. Stay tuned for a lot of infill coming your way this week!
Some very cromulent projects popping up all over that area!
DenverInfill,
Have you ever looked at doing a study on the impact on neighborhood-level (or census track) density with all of the new residential projects? I feel like the 2010 census numbers are pretty stale for some neighborhoods that have seem a fair share of residential development since then. While exact numbers wouldn’t be available, I feel like estimates could be calculated something like this…
(number of new units since 2010 x average household size x occupancy rate) + 2010 census density.
Thanks for all of the updates guys!
Pretty cool. I’ve always liked that Denver has a multitude of business / retail centers. Which I think rings evident that a street car grid needs to be reconstructed. Denver will continue to grow more dense and since the petroleum machine is growing dimmer by the year. It’s the last resort for intelligent mobility.