DENVER | Main Development Thread #7

[ejwill04]

Demolition for this 13 story apartment building at 35th and Walnut in Rino is well underway. Looks like a nice project.

https://businessden.com/2018/10/31/d...ories-planned/

[EngiNerd]

Originally Posted by SirLucasTheGreat

This is a silly question but does anyone know a reliable way to post pictures that you take on your phone to this forum using your cell phone.

Upload photos to Imgur and use link to post here.

[The Dirt]

Originally Posted by ejwill04

Demolition for this 13 story apartment building at 35th and Walnut in Rino is well underway. Looks like a nice project.

https://businessden.com/2018/10/31/d...ories-planned/

Did you mean to say construction of the building, or demolition of the existing structure to make way for this building?

[SirLucasTheGreat]

This is a rendering of a new engineering school at UCD. This is on Speer between Arapahoe and Champa.

[seventwenty]

Originally Posted by semiurban

Surprised that there are people on this forum that don't check Denverinfill regularly:

https://denverinfill.com/blog/2019/0...-update-1.html

I don't trust that Ryan fellow. He seems shady.

[corey]

The CU Denver engineering building looks nice, but it is unfortunate to build it in front of the historic church. The church currently stands out nicely viewed from the DCPA across Speer. I guess there aren’t other suitable sites at Auraria for the school building. It will continue the street wall along that stretch of Speer though.

[mr1138]

Originally Posted by corey

The CU Denver engineering building looks nice, but it is unfortunate to build it in front of the historic church. The church currently stands out nicely viewed from the DCPA across Speer. I guess there aren’t other suitable sites at Auraria for the school building. It will continue the street wall along that stretch of Speer though.

I somewhat agree, though I do not think it is necessarily a site location problem - it's a design problem. There can be both a Speer streetwall, and appropriate view axes maintained. This is an appropriate building site, but from the looks of it only the bare minimum view down Arapahoe St. is being maintained. The view to the church is naturally protected along this axis, but I'm a bit worried that the massing of what looks to be the fifth through seventh floors protrudes into this axis. Considering that the building footprint is significantly larger, this strikes me as a lazy urban design oversight. And this is after the campus already overrode an earlier campus master plan and sited a building right in the way of the Blake St. view toward the Tivoli - one of the most interesting that used to exist in Denver.

[Agent Orange]

Originally Posted by corey

The CU Denver engineering building looks nice, but it is unfortunate to build it in front of the historic church. The church currently stands out nicely viewed from the DCPA across Speer. I guess there aren’t other suitable sites at Auraria for the school building. It will continue the street wall along that stretch of Speer though.

That is a bit of a shame, especially since we have lost the Tivoli sightline down Blake to the new CU Denver rec center.

[wong21fr]

Originally Posted by Agent Orange

That is a bit of a shame, especially since we have lost the Tivoli sightline down Blake to the new CU Denver rec center.

It’s ironic that CU’s one architecture program is on a campus that produces such lousy buildings with no respect for the site's history. The hubris of the state’s “flagship university” is clearly evident.

[DenvertoLA]

Does anyone have a tally of how many groundbreakings there have been this year? It's almost the end of Q1 and I can't think of any

[SirLucasTheGreat]

Originally Posted by DenvertoLA

Does anyone have a tally of how many groundbreakings there have been this year? It's almost the end of Q1 and I can't think of any

I can't think of any in Denver proper.

[BG918]

Originally Posted by DenvertoLA

Does anyone have a tally of how many groundbreakings there have been this year? It's almost the end of Q1 and I can't think of any

Typically if you can swing it you schedule your groundbreaking later in the spring when the weather is consistently warmer. This is critical in the mountains not as much so in Denver.

[bulldurhamer]

looks like walnut st lofts and the hub2 are both moving dirt around at the very least.

[SirLucasTheGreat]

Originally Posted by DenvertoLA

Does anyone have a tally of how many groundbreakings there have been this year? It's almost the end of Q1 and I can't think of any

This doesn't count as a groundbreaking but a vacant office tower is being demolished near 9th and Bannock with plans for a 17-story apartment.

[The Dirt]

Broadstone Uptown (8 stories), Broadstone Uptown West (8 stories), both at 18th and Marion, and the Victor at 18th and Gaylord (5 stories) all broke ground in the last month or so.

[Robert.hampton]

Originally Posted by The Dirt

Broadstone Uptown (8 stories), Broadstone Uptown West (8 stories), both at 18th and Marion, and the Victor at 18th and Gaylord (5 stories) all broke ground in the last month or so.

dirt moving around today at 38th and walnut where the tiny village was. Think that’s an affordable housing development by ulc?

[Stonemans_rowJ]

Who's the best mayoral candidate from a development perspective?

[SirLucasTheGreat]

Originally Posted by Stonemans_rowJ

Who's the best mayoral candidate from a development perspective?

Probably Hancock or Giellis

[The Dirt]

My concern with Giellis is that she's all over the place. She says YIMBY things to YIMBYs, NIMBY things to NIMBYs, and vague half truths that could go either way in the most public forums.

[pablosan]

I'm more concerned with city council members. Most of the challengers are against excessive development.

https://denverite.com/2019/03/14/in-...e-challengers/

https://denverite.com/2019/03/14/den...ncil-election/

https://denverite.com/2019/03/14/in-...t-and-stop-it/