Union Station North is one of the denser residential neighborhoods around Downtown Denver. While most of the parcels in this neighborhood are built out, there are a few left that are either undergoing development or have projects proposed on them.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
X Denver. Rising 12 floors, X Denver is the tallest project in Union Station North. The residential portion has topped out with the two level rooftop deck now underway. While there are no signs of the facade yet, most of the exterior weatherproofing is now complete.
X Denver 2. This is the second development in the X Denver series. We have not yet announced this project due to a lack of renderings and final details. However, construction has recently commenced with a tower crane now up on the project site. X Denver 2 will provide 204 homes contained in a 12-story building with six of the floors dedicated to parking. For a rough idea of what this project will look like, check out the Site Development Plans.
NEW PROJECTS
2980 Huron. We announced this project back in our Proposed Residential Roundup and while not much has moved on this 13-story project, a construction permit is still in progress so we can only hope that it will start soon.
That’s all for Union Station North!
Good God! That parking deck for X2! Soooooo bad!
Looks like there is 6 levels of exposed parking on the X Denver 2 plans… very unfortunate!
i agree. Besides the idea of encouraging more cars, the building as drawn, looks incredibly topheavy and unattractive; no let’s say ugly. Doesn’t that architect have any sense of design? Terrible!
I just scrolled through the site development plan. How depressing.
How does exposed parking like that get approved? That is heinous. I really like this area but I hope that something changes with the design of X2’s parking structure although I wish that building didn’t have that much parking to begin with
Good god, how in the name of Blueprint Denver did that parking garage with attached car-owner sleeping units get approved?
Also, there’s a good pic of a street yo there and it’s soooo wide. Why? They should double the sidewalks and remove the parking. Add a median. Something.
Because it’s a cul-de-sac.
Denver needs more/better design standards! I’m not at all demanding that every project is an architectural masterpiece – boring buildings have their place in every city – but these parking podiums that have been getting through recently are absolutely ridiculous. All the areas that can/will support high rise construction need to adopt the Arapahoe Square design guidelines at very minimum. Otherwise merchant builders from around the country who don’t care about our city will continue swooping in with these ugly projects and then exiting with millions in profit and leaving us to live with the consequences.
Union Station North is dense. And ugly.
Lordy mercy these buildings are huge and very sideways. It will be exciting when they are filled with people though. Is the sideways thing so that there’s no ground area left to expel the threat of available land area that could be available for new parking lots? Maybe more land area for another building would suffice. Somehow I wonder with all this steady developing of old dilapidated buildings and parking lots soon the core will be developed and there won’t even be any room for growth whether sideways or vertical and then you have the land value monopolies raising the cost of living. Sad reality or intentional strategic planning in keeping Denver one of the most expensive places to live? Nice for the development real estate industry but afforded for who?
Unrelated-to-this-post question: Does Denver Infill gather details about the types of units in each building, in particular, the number of bedrooms and bathrooms?
Given Denver’s “only two unrelated people can live in the same unit” rule, I have a hypothesis that developers just won’t build 3- or 4- bedroom units because the market for families with kids is relatively small, but I have no clue if this is my gut feeling lines up with what’s actually happened over the past decade.
To answer your question, generally no, we don’t track the bedroom types. Occasionally if the bedroom type count is handy we might include it in a post, but normally that’s not something we look for or report as a rule.
Thanks for the response! As far as I can tell, Denver’s open data does not track it either, so I was hopefully casting about for other sources.