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1510 17th St

1510 17th St is a 6-story apartment building in Greater Downtown Denver. Its floor plate has 100% of its area within daylight reach of a facade and scores 85 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 1514 17th St and 1516 17th St: Denver’s address records place all 3 on this one footprint.

Where 1510 17th St is

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

1600 17th St: scores 95 out of 1001660 Blake St: scores 89 out of 1001601 Blake St: scores 81 out of 1001441 18th St: scores 78 out of 1001351 16th St: scores 77 out of 1001525 17th St: scores 77 out of 1001415 16th St: already housing1510 16th St: scores 73 out of 1001521 15th St: scores 70 out of 1001401 17th St: scores 69 out of 1001600 Wynkoop St: scores 65 out of 1001331 17th St: scores 64 out of 1001606 16th St: scores 62 out of 1001550 17th St: scores 61 out of 1001755 Blake St: scores 58 out of 100958981776965646158WAZEE STBLAKE ST17TH ST16TH STMARKET STN100 ftGreater Downtown Denver
Suitability score
0–29
30–49
50–69
70–100
  • Already housing
  • Not screened
  • 1510 17th St
1510 17th 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. 1510 17th St is outlined in its own score color at the outline it covers at ground level. The inset places it among every building the screen covers.
26 ftAA50 ftDaylit 100%
Floor plan: 100% of each floor sits within daylight reach of a facade, with no dead core at all. The shading is daylight, darkest at the windows and gone 35 ft in. The dimension marks the deepest interior point, 26 ft from the nearest window. A–A is where the section beside it is cut.
Ground floor · no homesDaylit6 floors25 ft
Section A–A: cut across the depth of the plate, through the middle of the core. Daylight reaches 35 ft in from every facade, and here it meets in the middle: the plate is thin enough that no floor is left windowless. 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 62 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.

This footprint has no windowless core at all: every point on the floor plate is within 35 ft of a facade, which is unusual and is the main reason it scores as well as it does.

Modeled conversion metrics for 1510 17th St, 2026-09-19.

Suitability scoreStrong candidate85 / 100
Storiesfrom 67 ft aerial-survey height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor6
Floor plateper floor, from the city footprint6,613 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade100%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft26 ft
Windowless coreper floor — renovated but never rentable0 sq ft
BuiltDenver does not publish a construction year with this data—
ZoningUnion StationD-LD
Opportunity Zonenot in a 2018 designated tractNo

The plan: window line, shape and floor rhythm

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

The typical floor has 359 ft of exterior wall, and across 5 residential floors the building carries 1,797 ft of it in total, divided among the 35 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is moderately compact at 0.64: 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 7.0 homes per floor, repeated on every residential floor, since this building's outline does not change as it rises.

Why 1510 17th St scores 85 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 100, Interior depth 100, Scale 23, Finance 78 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Score components for 1510 17th St. Points are the subscore times its weight.

ComponentSubscoreWeightPoints
Daylight efficiency100% of the floor area within 35 ft of a facade, scored from 40% up to 90%10045%45.0
Interior depthdeepest interior point 26 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft10025%25.0
Scale35 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 1502315%3.5
Financeremaining gap is 13% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%7815%11.8

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is scale, at 23 out of 100: 35 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150.

Other buildings screened near 1510 17th St

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 210 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

  • 1550 17th St
    8 stories · 73% daylit · 147 estimated homes · scores 61/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
    about 210 ft away
  • 1660 Blake St
    6 stories · 100% daylit · 71 estimated homes · scores 89/100 (Strong candidate)
    about 260 ft away
  • 1525 17th St
    8 stories · 88% daylit · 114 estimated homes · scores 77/100 (Strong candidate)
    about 300 ft away
  • 1601 Blake St
    8 stories · 90% daylit · 66 estimated homes · scores 81/100 (Strong candidate)
    about 300 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.