1301 N Broadway

Where 1301 N Broadway is

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

The plan: window line, shape and floor rhythm

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

The typical floor has 1,210 ft of exterior wall, and across 10 residential floors the building carries 11,283 ft of it in total, divided among the 316 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is elongated at 0.41: 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 31.6 homes per floor. Its floors are not alike, though: the typical floor's deepest interior point is 87 ft from a facade, while its worst floor reaches 108 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 1301 N Broadway scores 35 out of 100

The weighted components add to 43, but the score is capped at 35 because its deepest interior point is 87 ft from a facade, past the 80 ft threshold beyond which conversion requires carving a light well.

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is interior depth, at 0 out of 100: deepest interior point 87 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft.

What the conversion would cost

$360 per square foot all-in across 437,965 sq ft of converted floor, or $157.7M in total — about $499K for each of the 316 homes.

That cost is charged across every converted square foot, including the 140,787 sq ft of windowless core, which has to be gutted, re-plumbed and sprinklered like the rest of the building and then earns nothing. Against it the model sets a completed value of $236K a home, which for 316 homes is $74.6M.

What would have to be true

A $83.1M gap before any grant, $73.1M after the modeled one. The smallest single change that would close it: average unit size 49% down.

The shortfall before any grant is $83.1M. Closing it from the value side means each of the 316 homes finishing at $499K rather than the $236K the model assumes — 111% more. Closing it from the cost side means getting all-in cost down from $360 to $170 per square foot.

A modeled RESIDE grant of $10.0M moves that threshold to $467K a home. That is still above the $236K assumed, leaving $73.1M uncovered, which is why the grant does not unlock this one.

Nor do all four levers have to move. For 1301 N Broadway, one alone would close the gap at:

All four are sliders in the survey, where 1301 N Broadway re-scores against your own numbers.

How it compares in Greater Downtown Denver

1301 N Broadway ranks 203rd of the 214 buildings screened here, against a median score of 72.

Its floor plate is better lit than 9% of them, and shallower than 4% of them at its deepest interior point. On size it is the 66th largest by estimated homes. The full survey of all 214 buildings ranks and maps every one of them, and the list by address links each to its own page.

Within Civic Center and the D-CV zone

19th of 23 in Civic Center, 3rd of 4 zoned D-CV — the comparison that shares its rules, rents and streets.

Denver places 23 of the screened buildings in Civic Center. 1301 N Broadway ranks 19th of them against a median score of 67. 10 score 70 or more, their median deepest interior point is 62 ft from a facade against this building’s 87 ft, and together they would hold an estimated 5,064 homes. The group’s top scorer is 1314 N Elati St, at 92.

4 of the screened buildings are zoned D-CV. 1301 N Broadway ranks 3rd of them against a median score of 56. 2 score 70 or more, their median deepest interior point is 74 ft from a facade against this building’s 87 ft, and together they would hold an estimated 1,085 homes. The group’s top scorer is 144 W Colfax Ave, at 85.

Its nearest match in size: 1400 Wewatta St

The screened building closest to 1301 N Broadway in converted floor area is 1400 Wewatta St: 459,906 sq ft over 11 stories, against 437,965 sq ft over 11 here.

1400 Wewatta St scores 61 and 1301 N Broadway only 35, and the difference is a hard fail rather than a matter of degree: the lower one is capped at 35 because its deepest interior point is 87 ft from a facade, past the 80 ft threshold beyond which conversion requires carving a light well. On the money they sit in the same place: each falls short even with the modeled grant. The two stand about 6,400 ft apart.

Would it qualify for a RESIDE Act grant?

The model awards 1301 N Broadway $10.0M, on the assumption it qualifies. Whether it does, no published dataset can say.

That figure assumes the building meets the Act’s vacant-and-abandoned test, which turns on code-enforcement and receivership records no city publishes.

It does not sit in a 2018 designated Opportunity Zone, so it would not draw that Section 201 priority.

Other buildings screened near 1301 N Broadway

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 400 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

• 1310 N Bannock St
  12 stories · 71% daylit · 695 estimated homes · scores 48/100 (Marginal)
  about 400 ft away
• 1200 N Acoma St
  11 stories · 66% daylit · 348 estimated homes · scores 35/100 (Marginal)
  about 550 ft away
• 144 W Colfax Ave
  5 stories · 97% daylit · 58 estimated homes · scores 85/100 (Strong candidate)
  about 930 ft away
• 1250 N Cherokee St
  17 stories · 85% daylit · already an apartment building
  about 980 ft away