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Originally Posted by Scottk
There is a very nice 4 story apartment building currently going up near 29th street mall. Which means that Boulder is building more dense than one of the projects in Union Station (the affordable housing project)
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It's so cute when Boulder thinks they are being progressive.
I assume you are talking about Depot Square at Boulder Junction and the 78-unit affordable apartment project U/C there. Lumping in the 140-room Hyatt that will be built there and assuming the parcel is approximately 3.28 acres, this gives the project a density of 64 units/acre. In comparison, the affordable apartment project at Union, 1975 18th Street, is 108 units on a parcel of 1.13 acres resulting is a density of 96 units/acre. Boulder's idea of density is 67% that of one of Denver's lowest density projects.
If you are referring to 3100 Pearl, which is 319-unit apartment project U/C to the south of Depot Square, that project is on 4.23 acres and has a density of 75 units/acre. Even City House comes in at 94 units/acres. 80% of the density of the least efficient project around Union Station density-wise.
Boulder's wouldn't know density if it the word was mushroom stamped on every resident's forehead.