A new apartment community is coming to Blake Street in Denver’s booming River North/Ballpark neighborhood.
Mill Creek Residential, a national multifamily developer based in Dallas, Texas, has been busy in Denver, recently developing The Casey and The Douglas and currently building Modera River North at 29th and Brighton Boulevard. Next up for Mill Creek is Modera River North Arts, a proposed 183-unit housing development along Blake Street between 28th and 29th streets. Here’s a Google Earth aerial showing the proposed location:
Modera River North Arts will rise five floors and include approximately 229 parking spaces.
The following rendering is courtesy of Studio PBA, the project architect:
Construction is expected to begin later this spring with completion set for 2017.
“Just because you can does not mean you should.”
This is just another developer-driven, stick-framed, generic box.
Sure the architect put some ‘design’ flourishes in there – unnecessary angles, meaningless volumes, and material changes – just for the sake of doing ‘something’ to disguise the generic developer-driven box.
The design moves show a complete lack of any discernable concept. The phrase irrational exhuberance comes to mind…
To me, this is exactly the kind of bland, generic, characterless architecture we should be fighting against. Don’t be fooled by a couple stupid angles.
I think it’s nice!
So excited to see another industrial lot turn into high density residential project. River North is in such close proximity to downtown that it is great to see infill taking place and building density downtown