1415 16th St

1415 16th St is a 11-story apartment building in Greater Downtown Denver. Its floor plate has 88% of its area within daylight reach of a facade and scores 77 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 1425 16th St, 1435 16th St, 1441 16th St, 1445 16th St, 1455 16th St, 1461 16th St, 1465 16th St, 1475 16th St, 1485 16th St, 1490 17th St, 1627 Market St, 1641 Market St, 1651 Market St, 1661 Market St, 1665 Market St, 1671 Market St and 1691 Market St: Denver’s address records place all 18 on this one footprint.

Where 1415 16th 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
1415 16th St

1415 16th 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. 1415 16th 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: 88% of the building’s floor area sits within daylight reach of a facade; the drawing shows its typical floor, where the share is 89%. The shading is daylight, darkest at the windows and gone 35 ft in. The hatched area is windowless core: 7,399 sq ft per typical floor that must be renovated but can never be rented as an apartment. The dimension marks the deepest interior point, 63 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: 7,399 sq ft on the floor the screen scores, and 47,954 sq ft over 10 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 225 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 10 residential floors this building carries 47,954 sq ft of windowless core — area that must be gutted, re-plumbed and sprinklered but can never be rented as an apartment.

Read with caution. This footprint carries 18 street addresses across 64,685 sq ft, which usually means the city’s GIS has merged a block or complex into a single polygon rather than describing one convertible building.

Modeled conversion metrics for 1415 16th St, 2026-09-19.

Suitability scoreStrong candidate	77 / 100
Storiesfrom 130 ft aerial-survey height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	11
Height bandsfloor plate by floor range, from the city's roof outlines	Floors 1–2: 71,572 sq ft · Floors 3–5: 64,685 sq ft · Floor 6: 55,295 sq ft · Floor 7: 24,252 sq ft · Floors 8–11: 17,526 sq ft
Floor platetypical floor, from the city outlines	64,685 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	88%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	63 ft
Windowless coretypical floor; the building-wide total is in the text above	7,399 sq ft
BuiltDenver does not publish a construction year with this data	—
ZoningUnion Station	D-LD
Opportunity Zonenot in a 2018 designated tract	No

The plan: window line, shape and floor rhythm

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

The typical floor has 1,989 ft of exterior wall, and across 10 residential floors the building carries 13,537 ft of it in total, divided among the 391 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is highly articulated at 0.21: a long, notched or wing-shaped outline with far more facade than its area needs — wasteful as an office envelope, and close to ideal for apartments. How window line and plate shape are measured.

At the model’s 750 sq ft average, the plan works out at about 39.1 homes per floor, repeated on every residential floor, since this building's outline does not change as it rises.

Why 1415 16th St scores 77 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 97, Interior depth 44, Scale 100, Finance 47 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Score components for 1415 16th St. Points are the subscore times its weight.

Component	Subscore	Weight	Points
Daylight efficiency88% of the floor area within 35 ft of a facade, scored from 40% up to 90%	97	45%	43.6
Interior depthdeepest interior point 63 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft	44	25%	10.9
Scale391 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150	100	15%	15.0
Financeremaining gap is 32% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%	47	15%	7.1

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is interior depth, at 44 out of 100: deepest interior point 63 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft.

Other buildings screened near 1415 16th St

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 110 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

1660 Blake St
6 stories · 100% daylit · 71 estimated homes · scores 89/100 (Strong candidate)
about 110 ft away
1351 16th St
12 stories · 86% daylit · 225 estimated homes · scores 77/100 (Strong candidate)
about 250 ft away
1601 Blake St
8 stories · 90% daylit · 66 estimated homes · scores 81/100 (Strong candidate)
about 320 ft away
1510 17th St
6 stories · 100% daylit · already an apartment building
about 350 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.