1331 N Cherokee St

1331 N Cherokee St is a 8-story building in Greater Downtown Denver with 75% of its floor area within daylight reach of a facade. This screen estimates 128 homes and scores it 53 out of 100 for office-to-residential conversion suitability.

CO-1 · Screened 2026-09-19 · Worth a feasibility study

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Where 1331 N Cherokee St is

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

Suitability score

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30–49

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70–100

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1331 N Cherokee St

1331 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. 1331 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: 75% of the building’s floor area sits within daylight reach of a facade; the drawing shows its typical floor, where the share is 69%. The shading is daylight, darkest at the windows and gone 35 ft in. The hatched area is windowless core: 7,975 sq ft per typical floor that must be renovated but can never be rented as an apartment. The dimension marks the deepest interior point, 76 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: 7,975 sq ft on the floor the screen scores, and 40,233 sq ft over 7 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 building does not pencil at default assumptions, even with a modeled RESIDE Act grant.

Across its 7 residential floors this building carries 40,233 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 1331 N Cherokee St, 2026-09-19.

Suitability scoreWorth a feasibility study	53 / 100
Storiesfrom 99 ft aerial-survey height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	8
Height bandsfloor plate by floor range, from the city's roof outlines	Floors 1–2: 27,570 sq ft · Floors 3–4: 25,963 sq ft · Floor 5: 24,797 sq ft · Floor 6: 22,989 sq ft · Floor 7: 19,366 sq ft · Floor 8: 14,227 sq ft
Floor platetypical floor, from the city outlines	25,963 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	75%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	76 ft
Windowless coretypical floor; the building-wide total is in the text above	7,975 sq ft
Estimated homesat 750 sq ft average	128
Conversion cost$360/sq ft all-in on 160,875 sq ft	$57.9M
Gap before grantshortfall against completed value	$27.7M
Modeled RESIDE grantbelow the statutory cap	$7.7M
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

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 667 ft of exterior wall, and across 7 residential floors the building carries 4,552 ft of it in total, divided among the 128 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is compact at 0.73: close to a square or a circle, the most efficient envelope an office can have and the least generous one for apartments: little perimeter to divide among homes. How window line and plate shape are measured.

At the model’s 750 sq ft average, the plan works out at about 18.3 homes per floor, repeated on every residential floor, since this building's outline does not change as it rises.

Why 1331 N Cherokee St scores 53 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 70, Interior depth 11, Scale 85, Finance 42 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Score components for 1331 N Cherokee St. Points are the subscore times its weight.

Component	Subscore	Weight	Points
Daylight efficiency75% of the floor area within 35 ft of a facade, scored from 40% up to 90%	70	45%	31.5
Interior depthdeepest interior point 76 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft	11	25%	2.7
Scale128 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150	85	15%	12.8
Financeremaining gap is 35% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%	42	15%	6.4

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is interior depth, at 11 out of 100: deepest interior point 76 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft.

What the conversion would cost

$360 per square foot all-in across 160,875 sq ft of converted floor, or $57.9M in total — about $452K for each of the 128 homes.

All-in cost per square foot for 1331 N Cherokee St: base cost plus the code work a change of use triggers.

Base conversion cost	$260/sq ft
Plumbing risers to every unit	$40/sq ft
Operable windows and glazing	$30/sq ft
Additional egress stair	$18/sq ft
Fire sprinklers (NFPA 13R)	$12/sq ft
All-in	$360/sq ft

That cost is charged across every converted square foot, including the 40,233 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 128 homes is $30.2M.

What would have to be true

A $27.7M gap before any grant, $20.0M after the modeled one. The smallest single change that would close it: average unit size 37% down.

The shortfall before any grant is $27.7M. Closing it from the value side means each of the 128 homes finishing at $452K rather than the $236K the model assumes — 92% more. Closing it from the cost side means getting all-in cost down from $360 to $188 per square foot.

A modeled RESIDE grant of $7.7M moves that threshold to $392K a home. That is still above the $236K assumed, leaving $20.0M uncovered, which is why the grant does not unlock this one.

Nor do all four levers have to move. For 1331 N Cherokee St, one alone would close the gap at:

Single-assumption flip points for 1331 N Cherokee St, each holding the other three at their defaults.

Average unit sizethe binding constraint — the least this building would need	37% downto 473 sq ft
Conversion cost per square foot	48% downto $136/sq ft
Completed value per home	66% upto $392K

All four are sliders in the survey, where 1331 N Cherokee St re-scores against your own numbers.

How it compares in Greater Downtown Denver

1331 N Cherokee St ranks 186th of the 214 buildings screened here, against a median score of 72.

Its floor plate is better lit than 29% of them, and shallower than 7% of them at its deepest interior point. On size it is the 147th 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

15th of 23 in Civic Center, 13th of 15 zoned D-GT — the comparison that shares its rules, rents and streets.

Denver places 23 of the screened buildings in Civic Center. 1331 N Cherokee St ranks 15th 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 76 ft, and together they would hold an estimated 5,064 homes. The group’s top scorer is 1314 N Elati St, at 92.

15 of the screened buildings are zoned D-GT. 1331 N Cherokee St ranks 13th of them against a median score of 76. 8 score 70 or more, their median deepest interior point is 54 ft from a facade against this building’s 76 ft, and together they would hold an estimated 2,397 homes. The group’s top scorer is 1314 N Elati St, at 92.

Its nearest match in size: 1115 N Broadway

The screened building closest to 1331 N Cherokee St in converted floor area is 1115 N Broadway: 157,834 sq ft over 8 stories, against 160,875 sq ft over 8 here.

1331 N Cherokee St scores 53 to its 78, and with the size held roughly equal most of that shortfall comes from daylight efficiency: 70 out of 100 here, 100 there (93% of the floor area within 35 ft of a facade, scored from 40% up to 90%). On the money they sit in the same place: each falls short even with the modeled grant. The two stand about 1,600 ft apart.

Would it qualify for a RESIDE Act grant?

The model awards 1331 N Cherokee St $7.7M, 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 1331 N Cherokee St

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 200 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

1351 N Cherokee St
7 stories · 89% daylit · 63 estimated homes · scores 81/100 (Strong candidate)
about 200 ft away
1371 N Cherokee St
6 stories · 88% daylit · 90 estimated homes · scores 78/100 (Strong candidate)
about 350 ft away
1314 N Elati St
8 stories · 96% daylit · 111 estimated homes · scores 92/100 (Strong candidate)
about 420 ft away
1250 N Cherokee St
17 stories · 85% daylit · already an apartment building
about 490 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.