1029 N Cherokee St

1029 N Cherokee St is a 17-story apartment building in Greater Downtown Denver. Its floor plate has 85% of its area within daylight reach of a facade and scores 84 out of 100 on this screen’s measures, which is part of why it works as housing.

CO-1 · Screened 2026-09-19 · Already housing

Also addressed as 1031 N Cherokee St, 1033 N Cherokee St, 1035 N Cherokee St, 1037 N Cherokee St, 1039 N Cherokee St and 1000 N Speer Blvd: Denver’s address records place all 7 on this one footprint.

Where 1029 N Cherokee St is

Its block in Greater Downtown Denver, drawn from Denver's own building outlines and street centerlines.

Suitability score

0–29

30–49

50–69

70–100

Already housing
Not screened
1029 N Cherokee St

1029 N Cherokee St and the 1,000 ft of Greater Downtown Denver around it. The streets are drawn at the width of the right-of-way they run down, sidewalks included, and named, and every building on these blocks is drawn. What is left open and stippled is neither: a surface lot, a plaza or a vacant parcel. The screened buildings are colored by the ramp above, the same one the district map uses, carry their score, and each is a link to its own page. Each casts a shadow as long as its measured height lets it, so towers stand out from the low buildings around them; the unscreened buildings have no measured height and cast none. 1029 N Cherokee St is outlined in its own score color at the outline it covers at ground level. Dashed inside it is the typical floor, the one the floor-plate figure below draws, because this building steps back as it rises. Its windowless core is hatched. The inset places it among every building the screen covers.

Typical floor plan: 85% of the building’s floor area sits within daylight reach of a facade; the drawing shows its typical floor, where the share is 95%. The shading is daylight, darkest at the windows and gone 35 ft in. The hatched area is windowless core: 1,172 sq ft per typical floor that must be renovated but can never be rented as an apartment. The dimension marks the deepest interior point, 45 ft from the nearest window. A–A is where the section beside it is cut.

Section A–A: cut across the depth of the plate, through the middle of the core. Daylight reaches 35 ft in from every facade, fading as it goes, and the hatched stripe left between the lit edges is floor that gets converted and can never be rented: 1,172 sq ft on the floor the screen scores, and 58,820 sq ft over 16 residential floors. The steps are where the building sets back as it rises. The shaded ground floor is converted like the rest and counted as no homes.

This is already an apartment building: Denver's property records list 224 apartments here. It is on the map because the city's building outlines file it as commercial, but this site does not count it as a conversion candidate.

Across its 16 residential floors this building carries 58,820 sq ft of windowless core — area that must be gutted, re-plumbed and sprinklered but can never be rented as an apartment.

Modeled conversion metrics for 1029 N Cherokee St, 2026-09-19.

Suitability scoreStrong candidate	84 / 100
Storiesfrom 202 ft aerial-survey height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	17
Height bandsfloor plate by floor range, from the city's roof outlines	Floors 1–2: 34,243 sq ft · Floors 3–5: 33,863 sq ft · Floors 6–15: 25,355 sq ft · Floor 16: 1,641 sq ft · Floor 17: 695 sq ft
Floor platetypical floor, from the city outlines	25,355 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	85%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	45 ft
Windowless coretypical floor; the building-wide total is in the text above	1,172 sq ft
BuiltDenver does not publish a construction year with this data	—
ZoningCivic Center	D-GT
Opportunity Zonenot in a 2018 designated tract	No

The plan: window line, shape and floor rhythm

34 ft of exterior wall for each home the screen estimates — enough for two- and three-bedroom homes across the plan.

The typical floor has 854 ft of exterior wall, and across 16 residential floors the building carries 12,063 ft of it in total, divided among the 355 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is elongated at 0.44: a slab or an L, which is why so much of the floor lies within reach of a window: the outline buys daylight that a square plan of the same area would not. How window line and plate shape are measured.

At the model’s 750 sq ft average, the plan works out at about 22.2 homes per floor. Its floors are not alike, though: the typical floor's deepest interior point is 45 ft from a facade, while its worst floor reaches 70 ft. The score follows the typical floor, so a podium that could not hold a bedroom does not by itself sink a slim tower above it — but it is there, and it is part of what would have to be drawn around.

Why 1029 N Cherokee St scores 84 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 90, Interior depth 88, Scale 100, Finance 44 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Score components for 1029 N Cherokee St. Points are the subscore times its weight.

Component	Subscore	Weight	Points
Daylight efficiency85% of the floor area within 35 ft of a facade, scored from 40% up to 90%	90	45%	40.5
Interior depthdeepest interior point 45 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft	88	25%	22.1
Scale355 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150	100	15%	15.0
Financeremaining gap is 33% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%	44	15%	6.6

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is finance, at 44 out of 100: remaining gap is 33% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%.

Other buildings screened near 1029 N Cherokee St

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 210 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

1000 N Cherokee St
6 stories · 90% daylit · 83 estimated homes · scores 66/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
about 210 ft away
300 W 11th Ave
16 stories · 88% daylit · already a condominium building
about 350 ft away
1080 N Cherokee St
5 stories · 84% daylit · 44 estimated homes · scores 76/100 (Strong candidate)
about 410 ft away
1100 N Cherokee St
8 stories · 100% daylit · already a condominium building
about 590 ft away

A screen, not a feasibility study, from outlines and heights rather than plans: the method and how to correct a figure. If you know this building’s interior, you know what this model cannot see.