1140 N Cherokee St

1140 N Cherokee St is a 8-story condominium building in Greater Downtown Denver. Its floor plate has 100% of its area within daylight reach of a facade and scores 88 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

Where 1140 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
1140 N Cherokee St

1140 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. 1140 N Cherokee St is outlined in its own score color at the outline it covers at ground level. The inset places it among every building the screen covers.

Floor plan: 100% of each floor sits within daylight reach of a facade, with no dead core at all. The shading is daylight, darkest at the windows and gone 35 ft in. The dimension marks the deepest interior point, 34 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, and here it meets in the middle: the plate is thin enough that no floor is left windowless. The shaded ground floor is converted like the rest and counted as no homes.

This is already a condominium building: Denver's property records list 48 condominiums 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.

This footprint has no windowless core at all: every point on the floor plate is within 35 ft of a facade, which is unusual and is the main reason it scores as well as it does.

Modeled conversion metrics for 1140 N Cherokee St, 2026-09-19.

Suitability scoreStrong candidate	88 / 100
Storiesfrom 100 ft aerial-survey height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	8
Floor plateper floor, from the city footprint	8,508 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	100%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	34 ft
Windowless coreper floor — renovated but never rentable	0 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

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

The typical floor has 428 ft of exterior wall, and across 7 residential floors the building carries 2,999 ft of it in total, divided among the 63 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is moderately compact at 0.58: a squarish plan, with enough perimeter for a conventional double-loaded corridor. How window line and plate shape are measured.

At the model’s 750 sq ft average, the plan works out at about 9.0 homes per floor, repeated on every residential floor, since this building's outline does not change as it rises.

Why 1140 N Cherokee St scores 88 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 100, Interior depth 100, Scale 42, Finance 78 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Score components for 1140 N Cherokee St. Points are the subscore times its weight.

Component	Subscore	Weight	Points
Daylight efficiency100% of the floor area within 35 ft of a facade, scored from 40% up to 90%	100	45%	45.0
Interior depthdeepest interior point 34 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft	100	25%	25.0
Scale63 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150	42	15%	6.3
Financeremaining gap is 13% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%	78	15%	11.7

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is scale, at 42 out of 100: 63 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150.

Other buildings screened near 1140 N Cherokee St

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 140 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

290 W 12th Ave
7 stories · 100% daylit · already a condominium building
about 140 ft away
1100 N Cherokee St
8 stories · 100% daylit · already a condominium building
about 200 ft away
1200 N Cherokee St
6 stories · 100% daylit · already a condominium building
about 340 ft away
1120 N Delaware St
7 stories · 75% daylit · 102 estimated homes · scores 60/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
about 400 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.