1475 Lawrence St

1475 Lawrence St is a 8-story building in Greater Downtown Denver with 94% of its floor area within daylight reach of a facade. This screen estimates 117 homes and scores it 87 out of 100 for office-to-residential conversion suitability.

CO-1 · Screened 2026-09-19 · Strong candidate

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Where 1475 Lawrence 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

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1475 Lawrence St

1475 Lawrence 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. 1475 Lawrence 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: 94% of the building’s floor area sits within daylight reach of a facade; the drawing shows its typical floor, where the share is 90%. The shading is daylight, darkest at the windows and gone 35 ft in. The hatched area is windowless core: 2,138 sq ft per typical floor that must be renovated but can never be rented as an apartment. The dimension marks the deepest interior point, 48 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: 2,138 sq ft on the floor the screen scores, and 7,176 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 7,176 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 1475 Lawrence St, 2026-09-19.

Suitability scoreStrong candidate	87 / 100
Storiesfrom 95 ft aerial-survey height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	8
Height bandsfloor plate by floor range, from the city's roof outlines	Floors 1–3: 22,068 sq ft · Floor 4: 21,177 sq ft · Floor 5: 18,901 sq ft · Floor 6: 18,406 sq ft · Floors 7–8: 7,275 sq ft
Floor platetypical floor, from the city outlines	22,068 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	94%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	48 ft
Windowless coretypical floor; the building-wide total is in the text above	2,138 sq ft
Estimated homesat 750 sq ft average	117
Conversion cost$360/sq ft all-in on 117,170 sq ft	$42.2M
Gap before grantshortfall against completed value	$14.6M
Modeled RESIDE grantbelow the statutory cap	$7.0M
BuiltDenver does not publish a construction year with this data	—
ZoningUnion Station	D-C
Opportunity Zonenot in a 2018 designated tract	No

The plan: window line, shape and floor rhythm

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

The typical floor has 742 ft of exterior wall, and across 7 residential floors the building carries 4,479 ft of it in total, divided among the 117 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is moderately compact at 0.50: 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 16.7 homes per floor, repeated on every residential floor, since this building's outline does not change as it rises.

Why 1475 Lawrence St scores 87 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 100, Interior depth 80, Scale 78, Finance 70 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Score components for 1475 Lawrence St. Points are the subscore times its weight.

Component	Subscore	Weight	Points
Daylight efficiency94% of the floor area within 35 ft of a facade, scored from 40% up to 90%	100	45%	45.0
Interior depthdeepest interior point 48 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft	80	25%	19.9
Scale117 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150	78	15%	11.7
Financeremaining gap is 18% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%	70	15%	10.5

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is finance, at 70 out of 100: remaining gap is 18% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%.

What the conversion would cost

$360 per square foot all-in across 117,170 sq ft of converted floor, or $42.2M in total — about $361K for each of the 117 homes.

All-in cost per square foot for 1475 Lawrence 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 7,176 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 117 homes is $27.6M.

What would have to be true

A $14.6M gap before any grant, $7.5M after the modeled one. The smallest single change that would close it: average unit size 18% down.

The shortfall before any grant is $14.6M. Closing it from the value side means each of the 117 homes finishing at $361K rather than the $236K the model assumes — 53% more. Closing it from the cost side means getting all-in cost down from $360 to $236 per square foot.

A modeled RESIDE grant of $7.0M moves that threshold to $301K a home. That is still above the $236K assumed, leaving $7.5M uncovered, which is why the grant does not unlock this one.

Nor do all four levers have to move. For 1475 Lawrence St, one alone would close the gap at:

Single-assumption flip points for 1475 Lawrence St, each holding the other three at their defaults.

Average unit sizethe binding constraint — the least this building would need	18% downto 615 sq ft
Circulation efficiency	22% upto 98%
Conversion cost per square foot	25% downto $196/sq ft
Completed value per home	27% upto $301K

All four are sliders in the survey, where 1475 Lawrence St re-scores against your own numbers.

How it compares in Greater Downtown Denver

1475 Lawrence St ranks 38th of the 214 buildings screened here, against a median score of 72.

Its floor plate is better lit than 83% of them, and shallower than 70% of them at its deepest interior point. On size it is the 151st 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 Union Station and the D-C zone

7th of 55 in Union Station, 12th of 72 zoned D-C — the comparison that shares its rules, rents and streets.

Denver places 55 of the screened buildings in Union Station. 1475 Lawrence St ranks 7th of them against a median score of 69. 23 score 70 or more, their median deepest interior point is 61 ft from a facade against this building’s 48 ft, and together they would hold an estimated 13,167 homes. The group’s top scorer is 1600 17th St, at 95.

72 of the screened buildings are zoned D-C. 1475 Lawrence St ranks 12th of them against a median score of 73. 39 score 70 or more, their median deepest interior point is 57 ft from a facade against this building’s 48 ft, and together they would hold an estimated 32,881 homes. The group’s top scorer is 721 19th St, at 95.

Its nearest match in size: 930 16th St

The screened building closest to 1475 Lawrence St in converted floor area is 930 16th St: 115,717 sq ft over 8 stories, against 117,170 sq ft over 8 here.

1475 Lawrence St scores 87 to its 61, and with the size held roughly equal most of that lead comes from daylight efficiency: 100 out of 100 here, 75 there (78% 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 1,000 ft apart.

Would it qualify for a RESIDE Act grant?

The model awards 1475 Lawrence St $7.0M, 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 1475 Lawrence St

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 180 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

1226 15th St
6 stories · 95% daylit · 134 estimated homes · scores 85/100 (Strong candidate)
about 180 ft away
1401 Lawrence St
26 stories · 72% daylit · 462 estimated homes · scores 57/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
about 200 ft away
1184 15th St
49 stories · 75% daylit · 876 estimated homes · scores 66/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
about 260 ft away
1575 Lawrence St
6 stories · 97% daylit · already a condominium building
about 320 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.