Originally Posted by i4isoar
So, little random and out of the blue, but here's something interesting I've recently discovered: the Hyatt Regency at the Convention Center may be shorter than it's "official" height.
This very website, and many other sources too, list the official height of the Hyatt Regency as 489' or 149 m, including the spire at the top of it. However, if you visit Downtown, or look at the Denver skyline from afar (including in some of the photographs posted on this very forum and over on Denver Infill as well), you can see very clearly that the Hyatt is actually roughly the same height as Block 162, located just across the street from it, or even possibly a little shorter. The Hyatt also looks a little shorter than the 473' Spire, located just over a block away from it, though that could be an optical illusion. While I know the streets downtown have a slight incline, if I recall correctly, the change in elevation across those blocks is only a few feet at most.
According to the blueprints filed with the City's website, Block 162 has an official height of 452', or 138 m, up to the top of the parapet. However, I couldn't find the blueprints for the Hyatt on the same website, so unless the city has some sort of archive where these blueprints are stored and publicly available, there's no way of confirming the Hyatt's exact height.
I double-checked the height on Google Earth, which shows that the highest point on the Hyatt (i.e. the tip of the spire) is at an elevation of 1725 m above sea level, while the street level on all four streets surrounding the Hyatt sits at an elevation of 1591 m above sea level. This gives a height of 134 m, or approx. 440', nearly 50' shorter than its official height listed in most sources. Granted, Google Earth is not the most reliable source of measuring a building's height, but that's the best source I could find, short of actually going to the top of the Hyatt and measuring it in-person.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? It makes me wonder how many other "official" building heights are inaccurate, here and in many other cities.
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