Since our last update in November, the Colorado Rockies Mixed-Use development has gained not one but two tower cranes, and excavation for the underground levels is mostly complete with shoring walls in place around the perimeter of the full-city-block site.

First, here’s a panorama of the site from last Saturday when the tower crane on Wazee was being erected:

Panorama from 19th Street of the Rockies Mixed-Use Development

The first tower crane, which Ryan documented in our Winter 2018 Tower Crane Census, is on the Wynkoop Promenade side of the block and the base for the third tower crane is already in place along 19th Street, visible in the foreground of the photo above. Here are a few more photos from the busy construction site last Saturday:

Tower crane along Wazee being erected
Tower crane along Wazee being erected
Tower crane along Wazee being erected
Tower crane along Wazee being erected

Here’s a close-up of the shoring walls and nearly bottomed-out excavation for the underground levels:

Most of the information about the Rockies Mixed-Use development that’s been released so far, such as what we reported in our Update #1, has consisted of gross square footages for the project’s major components, but not a lot of specifics about exactly what is going to go where. Today, we are happy to share with you more detail about how this project is organized from top to bottom across the entire site. Our source is the project’s Site Development Plan and other documents on file with the city.

Overview
The project will include three towers:

  • An 11-story office building on 19th Street stretching the entire block face between Wynkoop and Wazee
  • A 13-story condominium building along Wazee stretching from about mid-block over to 20th Street
  • A 13-story hotel at the corner of Wynkoop Promenade and 20th Street by the pedestrian bridge to Coors Field

Cutting diagonally across the block from 19th and Wynkoop to 20th and Wazee will be a wide pedestrian walkway with a circular public plaza in the center of the block featuring a mix of grassy and hardscaped surfaces. Significant new landscaping will be added to Wynkoop Promenade, and new planter beds and streetscaping will edge the development on the other three sides of the block.

Underground
Two underground levels will cover the entire block, but they include more than just room for the development’s 373 vehicle parking spaces. Below the hotel tower will be staff offices and other hotel back-of-house functions on level B-1 and storage lockers for the condominiums on level B-2. Vehicles will access the underground parking on B-1 and B-2 via two entries: one on 19th about half way between Wynkoop and the alley, and one mid-block on Wazee. The project will also include 188 bicycle parking spaces.

Office Tower
The 11-story office tower along 19th Street will have restaurants on the ground floor at both the Wynkoop and Wazee corners and a smaller commercial space mid-block off the lobby. The restaurants’ main dining rooms will be on the 2nd floor with outdoor seating decks overlooking the central plaza. Office space totaling about 230,000 gross square feet will occupy levels 3 through 11.

Residential Tower
The 13-story residential tower along Wazee will feature 111 for-sale condominiums. The first two floors will include the building lobby, two retail/restaurant spaces, and other amenity/gathering spaces plus outdoor decks overlooking the plaza. The condo units will fill floors 3 through 11, with penthouse units on part of floors 12 and 13. The 12th floor will also include a fitness center that will span over the pedestrian walkway 132 feet below to connect to the 12th floor of the hotel. Above the fitness center on the 13th floor will be a swimming pool with outdoor decks that, like the fitness center below, will bridge across to connect to the hotel tower.

Hotel Tower
The 13-story hotel tower will include on the ground floor a restaurant space facing Wynkoop Promenade and the Rockies Hall of Fame store facing the pedestrian walkway. The Rockies Hall of Fame galleries will fill most of the 2nd floor, and the 3rd floor will contain a mix of club rooms, conference/meeting rooms, and pre-function space. A series of outdoor decks and landscaped terraces on the first three levels will overlook the main plaza. A total of 175 hotel rooms will fill floors 4 through 13, with the ends of the 12th and 13th floors connecting to the fitness center/pool decks that bridge across from the condo tower.

We presented the rendering below (courtesy of Stantec, the project architect) in our announcement post, but here it is again for reference. While some of the project’s details have changed a bit since this rendering was produced, it still does a great job of showing the overall organization to the project. On the left is the hotel tower at Wynkoop Promenade and 20th Street connected to the residential tower along Wazee via the two-level amenity bridge, and the office tower is on the right facing 19th Street.

Colorado Rockies Mixed-Use development concept rendering, courtesy of Stantec.

What a great project! We will be back in the spring for our next update when the underground levels are completed and the development starts to go vertical.