DENVER | 1600 block of Champa Street | 596 FT | 53 FLOORS

[chris08876]

An image showing the scale and position of the proposed 53-storey tower in the 1600 block of Champa Street. ,Concept planning courtesy of the city of Denver,

The owners of a pair of centuries-old buildings in downtown Denver are looking to top it with dozens of floors of apartments in a project that has been under consideration for more than a decade.

Plans from Denver-based AIR Communities, which were submitted to the city earlier this week, will result in a 53-story, 596-foot structure in the 1600 block of Champa Street.

“It will be an iconic-looking building in the skyline,” Patti Schwyder, senior vice president of All India Radio, told BusinessDen.

If constructed, the tower would become the sixth tallest building in the city. It will be the second tallest building with a residential component, behind only the Four Seasons Building at 1111 14th St.

The project – which is still in an early design stage, and may change as the AIR seeks city approval – will affect the nine-story Boston building, built in 1890 at 828 17th St., and the eight-story Kistler Stationery Company. . Building, built in 1916 at 1640 Champa St. Between them, there are 158 apartments in both the buildings.

The project will also affect the existing parking garage next to the Kistler Building and the connected parking garage in the street opposite Stout Street.

All structures are owned by AIR, whose formal name is Apartment Income REIT Corporation. the company was formed in 2020 That’s when Denver-based real estate investment trust Aimco split into two companies. AIR owns and manages the apartment buildings, while another company, still called Emco, develops them.

In the concept plan presented to the city, the AIR community calls for the tower to be centered on top of the existing Kistler building and the parking garage next to it. The existing floors are included in the count of 53 floors. Denver’s Tribea Architects designed the plan.

Patti Schwyder, senior vice president of AIR, told BusinessDen that the company and predecessor Emco have owned properties since 2001, and have been planning the tower project since 2011.

“We look around our portfolio to see opportunities, and that’s a good one,” she said.

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https://darik.news/newhampshire/aimc...gs/558359.html

[BuildThemTaller]

This is a very cool project. It saves a pair of historic buildings and adds much-needed height and density to the downtown area.

I was in Denver a couple of weeks ago to visit a good friend. There's a lot going on in the city. There are a bunch of transplants from Texas and California. I could see the city undergoing an Austin- or Nashville-like boom. A problem they have right now is that there is so much sprawl. Getting a denser downtown and continuing to build out the transit network could help.

[Altoic]

Upon researching this project, we came across a concept rendering that Tryba Architects, the project architect, issued in their residential portfolio back in 2020. Here are a couple of those concept renderings. As with new concept plans, all of the above, including the renderings, are subject to change. A project as complex as this one is very likely to change as it moves through Landmark and the city’s planning process.

https://denverinfill.com/2022/08/dow...aug-2022.html#

[Zapatan]

Denver is so overdue for a boom, this is the second 500+ footer proposed, no?

[colemonkee]

I like it! Simple, but elegant, and the location and height is perfect on the skyline.