1314 N Elati St

Where 1314 N Elati St 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

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

The typical floor has 812 ft of exterior wall, and across 7 residential floors the building carries 4,906 ft of it in total, divided among the 111 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is elongated at 0.30: 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 15.9 homes per floor. Its floors are not alike, though: the typical floor's deepest interior point is 28 ft from a facade, while its worst floor reaches 59 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 1314 N Elati St scores 92 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 100, Interior depth 100, Scale 74, Finance 72 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is finance, at 72 out of 100: remaining gap is 17% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%.

What the conversion would cost

$360 per square foot all-in across 109,314 sq ft of converted floor, or $39.4M in total — about $355K for each of the 111 homes.

That cost is charged across every converted square foot, including the 4,406 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 111 homes is $26.2M.

What would have to be true

A $13.2M gap before any grant, $6.5M after the modeled one. The smallest single change that would close it: average unit size 16% down.

The shortfall before any grant is $13.2M. Closing it from the value side means each of the 111 homes finishing at $355K rather than the $236K the model assumes — 50% more. Closing it from the cost side means getting all-in cost down from $360 to $240 per square foot.

A modeled RESIDE grant of $6.7M moves that threshold to $295K a home. That is still above the $236K assumed, leaving $6.5M uncovered, which is why the grant does not unlock this one.

Nor do all four levers have to move. For 1314 N Elati St, one alone would close the gap at:

All four are sliders in the survey, where 1314 N Elati St re-scores against your own numbers.

How it compares in Greater Downtown Denver

1314 N Elati St ranks 16th of the 214 buildings screened here, against a median score of 72.

Its floor plate is better lit than 86% of them, and shallower than 99% of them at its deepest interior point. On size it is the 156th 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-GT zone

1st of 23 in Civic Center, 1st of 15 zoned D-GT — the comparison that shares its rules, rents and streets.

Denver places 23 of the screened buildings in Civic Center. 1314 N Elati St ranks 1st of them against a median score of 67, the top score in the group. 10 score 70 or more, their median deepest interior point is 62 ft from a facade against this building’s 28 ft, and together they would hold an estimated 5,064 homes.

15 of the screened buildings are zoned D-GT. 1314 N Elati St ranks 1st of them against a median score of 76, the top score in the group. 8 score 70 or more, their median deepest interior point is 54 ft from a facade against this building’s 28 ft, and together they would hold an estimated 2,397 homes.

Its nearest match in size: 1845 N Sherman St

The screened building closest to 1314 N Elati St in converted floor area is 1845 N Sherman St: 107,568 sq ft over 8 stories, against 109,314 sq ft over 8 here.

1314 N Elati St scores 92 to its 63, and with the size held roughly equal most of that lead comes from interior depth: 100 out of 100 here, 48 there (deepest interior point 61 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft). On the money they sit in the same place: each falls short even with the modeled grant. The two stand about 3,800 ft apart.

Would it qualify for a RESIDE Act grant?

The model awards 1314 N Elati St $6.7M, 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 1314 N Elati St

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 330 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

• 1300 N Fox St
  6 stories · 71% daylit · 88 estimated homes · scores 53/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
  about 330 ft away
• 1351 N Cherokee St
  7 stories · 89% daylit · 63 estimated homes · scores 81/100 (Strong candidate)
  about 340 ft away
• 1331 N Cherokee St
  8 stories · 75% daylit · 128 estimated homes · scores 53/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
  about 420 ft away
• 1244 N Speer Blvd
  11 stories · 77% daylit · 152 estimated homes · scores 67/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
  about 470 ft away