DENVER | Downtown high-rise boom

[Busy Bee]

As far as the Four Seasons design evolution, It's gone from:

..............This (65-story).................To This (55-story).............................To This (45-story)

Well at least for consistency sake it has remained boring and passe, so I guess there is a bright side to everything.

[SnyderBock]

I'm not sure where the vs. LA came into play here, but lets not go that direction with this thread. There is a point I'd like to make though, when talking about population density. One Third of Denver's land mass is Denver international Airport and is unpopulated.

[mhays]

Originally Posted by SnyderBock

I'm not sure where the vs. LA came into play here, but lets not go that direction with this thread. There is a point I'd like to make though, when talking about population density. One Third of Denver's land mass is Denver international Airport and is unpopulated.

Personally I factor that in when the topic is Denver's density. Basically it's around 5,000/sm if you don't include the airport. In other words, average for a US city.

[Jasonhouse]

Let's return to the thread's topic, which is about tracking vertical development in Denver.

[FrancoRey]

Walked in LoDo today...everything is moving nicely. 1515 Wynkoop is finally getting vertical. And at 1900 16th the foundation is gonna be poured anyday now. If I could just get my damn pics off of my camera, but I can't find my USB cable.

[SnyderBock]

It's officially a green light on the 43-story, Two Tabor Center! Denver's skyscraper boom continues with this Class AA, 43-story, 837,000 sf office building!

Two Tabor Center should begin construction by June or July and join the 32-story One Lincoln Park (residential), 41-story Spire (residential), and 45-story Four Seasons Hotel & Residence, as under-construction. The 51-story 1401 Lawrence (residential) is scheduled to join that list and begin construction by December of this year.

Originally Posted by PlanIt

Looks like the rumors are true. Check it. From livedowntowndenver.com/blog

According to the February 20th edition of the Colorado Real Estate Journal (CREJ), “Two Tabor” - the long awaited second building at the Tabor Center - still has a green light to commence construction. Bill Tresham, Partner and COO, with Callahan Capital Partners out of Chicago wrote the article titled “CBD office: all the right stuff“. I last wrote about this project in my August 2007 post.

Since that post and the Rocky Mountain News Article a few things have changed. First of all, the project’s name is officially now “Two Tabor”, up until now I referred to as Tabor II. Additionally, the Class AA tower will now be 43 stories tall (previously it was listed on Callahan’s website as 38) and have a total of 837,000 sf of leasable space. Denver Infill has also blogged about this project, most recently in Ken’s January 9th posting. I expect the renderings he pulled from Callahan’s website to be pretty close to what is built given the timeframe outlined in the CREJ article.

According to this article construction should begin soon and 2010 is the targeted completion date. As was mentioned in my previous post the foundation was poured 20 years ago which will allow this project to show visible vertical progress almost from day one. While it was expected that this project was a go, it was great to read that it was moving forward after no official word for almost six months. I am even more excited than I was in August because it appears that the tower is still going to be designed by Kohn Pederson Fox (KPF) and is even taller than before!

I really hope this rejuvenates this part of Downtown - especially the ground floor retail along the 16th Street Mall - which besides the Cheesecake Factory has struggled in recent months. I am not sure if the internal retail space on the second and third floors will really benefit or not since they have never recovered from the massive renovation that took place a few years ago.

I remember when the Tabor Center Food Court was voted the best in all of Downtown and was mobbed every lunch hour. I also remember the fountains, glass elevators and atrium space that was really beautiful as well. It is amazing to think that at one time the Tabor Center had both Brooks Brothers and the Sharper Image as tenants including a great independent toy store. Well that was the past and Two Tabor represents the future. I really look forward to this project joining SPIRE, Four Seasons and 1401 Lawrence in transforming Downtown Denver’s skyline.

-Two Tabor Center:
Tabor I was built in the late 1980's and the foundation for "Two Tabor Center" was also poured. Now, finally a building is going to be built on that foundation! This project has been increased from 38-stories (514' tall) to 43-stories (~612' tall) and seems to be a green light for starting sometime in 2008. ***Visit This Projects Website, Click Here!***
BUILDING FACTS:
Class: “AA”
Building Size: up to 837,000 SF
Typical Floor Plate: 20,000
No. of Floors: 43 stories - ~612' tall
Completion Date: 2010 (2008 Start Date)
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Parking: 1/1000
LEED Certified

[FrancoRey]

By FAR my favorite Denver project. May it rise in the very near future!!!

[SnyderBock]

I dare to say it could be a new signature tower for Denver. It may only be 43-stories and about 612' tall, but it's on the opposite end of downtown from Denver's big three. Two Tabor center will rise above a sea of 20-30 story buildings.

Nearby, also on this end of downtown are the Four Seasons (640'-10") and 1401 Lawrence (587'-3") projects in addition to Two Tabor Center (612').

Denver's existing Big three are on the opposite side of downtown and are as follows; Republic Plaza (714' roof), 1801 California (709' roof - 738' Antenna), Wells Fargo Center (699' roof - 705' Antenna). So the new big three will almost mirror the existing big three in the skyline.

Then there is the standalone 1999 Broadway (545' roof) built in 1985 being mirrored on the opposite end of downtown by the Spire (525' spire) as dominant medium size skyscrapers in Denver's skyline.

In other words, Denver's top 4 tallest buildings are getting counterparts built opposite to them in downtown. Denver's 4-tallest will soon become Denver's 8-tallest. Denver is doubling it's number of 500+ footers!

[SnyderBock]

The Dirt did a great job with this photo shoot!

Originally Posted by The Dirt

I finally made my way downtown to snap some photos today, and it was just the perfect weather for it.



I couldn't get a good shot of the Four Seasons due to active construction, so the first stop is the Spire:









Next up is the empty lot across the street where the Embassy/Homewood Suites should go up:



Looks like One Lincoln Park is finishing up quite nicely:





Here's the site where Two Tabor will sit:



Nothing going on at 1800 Market, but there was a little bit of activity at the 1800 Larimer site. Looks like some Xcel guys were out:





The Sugar3 building is looking nice:





I'm not sure why I don't hear more about 1515 Wynkoop:



There's plenty of stuff going on at 1900 16th:



Finally, 1400 Wewatta looks massive up close:







...and some random downtown shots for good measure:

[dktshb]

Man there is a lot of exciting stuff being built in Denver! Thanks for the photos snyder Bock! I really like to keep up on all the new development in the city.

[SnyderBock]

Thank The Dirt for taking the time to go take these photos and post them on here for all of us to enjoy! There sure is a full blown boom going on in Denver. Denver might be the only thing keeping this country out of recession! lol... ;-) jk




Here is another update by bunt_q showing Four Seasons and a good crane shot of what's going on in Denver:

Originally Posted by bunt_q

Well here, I'll add the Four Seasons in from yesterday since you didn't include that one Lighting was terrible (late afternoon). But yeah, top of the DCPA parking garage - can't beat it these days.

[SnyderBock]

Now here is a special treat from KidKonza!! He always does a complete and detailed rundown of everything being built in central Denver. Notice he does the crane count for us!

Originally Posted by KidKonza

Because the weather was so nice yesterday, I couldn't help but go for a loooong bike ride. Now maybe I can get to some of that homework.

I've made a couple changes since the last update. The March '08 photos are larger, while previous photos (December, September, and June '07) are smaller and set off to the side. As long as the project remains under construction, I will continue to post updates along with all previous updates as a sort of reference to progress made.

Pearl Street Victoriana (Complete)


Quality Hill Townes


816 Acoma


Lincoln Terrace *Crane 1*


Vectra Bank Branch (Complete)


220 Clayton


Shops at NorthCreek


NorthCreek Brownstones


One Fillmore Place (Complete)


Gates Tennis Facility (Complete)


Monroe Pointe (Complete)


150 Madison (Complete)


Cherry Creek Trails *Crane 2*


100 Jackson (Complete)


Colorado Commons *Crane 3*


Pinnacle at City Park - Tower 2 *Crane 4*


Pending St. Charles Town Company Project


Former Children's Hospital Redevelopment


Uptown Apartments


One Lincoln Park *Crane 5*


East Village Block 3


Welton Place


2428 Champa


2999 Lawrence (Complete)


Fire Clay Lofts - Phase IV


Broadstone Lofts *Crane 6*


Zi Lofts


1755 Blake *Crane 7*


1800 Larimer


1001 17th Renovations


Spire *Crane 8*


Four Seasons Hotel & Residences *Crane 9*


Sugar Cube


1400 Wewatta *Crane 10*


1515 Wynkoop *Crane 11*


1900 16th *Cranes 12 & 13*


Park at One Riverfront (Complete)


Highland Bridge Lofts (Complete)


Auraria Science Building


Denver Justice Center *Cranes 14, 15 & 16*


1200 Elati


1200 Delaware (Complete)


Look for the next series in June.

[dktshb]

Thanks for the photo update! I need to get out to Denver again some time.

[Top Of The Park]

Fantastic new pics and updates!

[SnyderBock]

Well, 1401 Lawrence seems to moving along with pre-sales and is still hoping to meet it's pre-sale obligations by June/July. I'm going to guess for a groundbreaking between the last week of August and two weeks into September. Lets go between August 24th and September 14th as a likely groundbreaking.

[JackStraw]

great shots escodu. I am wondering is there any denver construction thread discussing small projects? I check the general development and didn't find any. I wanted to post and discuss the projects that I found on this site.

http://denverinfill.com/neighborhood_pages/uptown.htm

It is a great site, showing all the infill projects of Denver. I found it last week when I found out the crappy ghetto apartment I lived in on Clarkson was torn down for one of these infill projects called the fluent. There are great infill projects going up in uptown. It is a shame that they tore a lot of uptown down in the 70s and 80s for parking lots. But these infill projects and this internet site is very neat.

[SnyderBock]

Originally Posted by The Dirt

Regarding the Spire:
I noticed the same thing about the Spire being too small this morning. It's much bigger in the updated picture (same pic, just hit refresh on your browser).

Regarding OLP:
Unfortunately, it won't show up from this angle.

Regarding 1900 16th St.:
I'll do this one last. It's going to be a lot bigger than the rest of the buildings from this perspective, and I also don't have a clue what it's going to look like from this angle. Of course, I can make an educated guess.

Regarding doing a far away rendering:
If you have a "before" photo that I can use, I can give it a shot. These are just stand in drawings, and I hope to replace them with actual 3D models at some point. That way I can do a render using almost any angle.

Regarding 1800 Larimer:
The reason that you're not seeing 1800 Larimer is because you're still seeing the old picture stored in your cache. When you refresh the web page it should update... or here it is again just to make things easier...

Before:


After:

Woot! Thanks The Dirt...
Take a look at the first post on this thread! It's a NEW UPDATE!!

[FrancoRey]

I Looooove the Two Tabor Tower super-imposed in this photo. It takes center stage as a 'new tallest' from this angle!

[MitchCPC]

Too bad you can't see OLP from here. Another nice edition to the skyline.

[FrancoRey]

ADDition, good sir.