Back in June 2016, we introduced a new project coming to Denver’s Lower Highland district: Platte Fifteen, a new five-story building featuring approximately 14,000 square feet of retail on the ground floor and around 135,000 square feet of office space on the upper four levels.
Construction on the project started a couple of weeks ago, beginning with the demolition of the former Natural Grocers building and its surface parking lot. Caisson drilling for the shoring walls for the underground parking is now underway. Here are a few photos from earlier this week:
As mentioned in our first post, this project is unique in that it will be Downtown Denver’s first Cross Laminated Timber building. Here’s a rendering of the finished building, courtesy of OZ Architecture. For more renderings and other details, visit our initial post.
If all goes as planned, Platte Fifteen should open Summer 2019.
I liked the building (brick, well made) and the business (Vitamin Cottage) that was there before.
I liked the old brick building that used to be there too. However, judging from the renderings, I don’t hate this one. If they give it some detail and keep it clean. Oz generally does a decent job. I will keep my fingers crossed. And…hopefully it will hide some of the horrendous apartment block and parking garage that sits behind it.
Hopefully this is the first of many new mass timber buildings in Denver