1512 Larimer St

1512 Larimer St is a 13-story condominium building in Greater Downtown Denver. Its floor plate has 87% of its area within daylight reach of a facade and scores 83 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 1550 Larimer St: Denver’s address records place both on this one footprint.

Where 1512 Larimer 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
1512 Larimer St

1512 Larimer 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. 1512 Larimer 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: 87% of the building’s floor area sits within daylight reach of a facade; the drawing shows its typical floor, where the share is 85%. The shading is daylight, darkest at the windows and gone 35 ft in. The hatched area is windowless core: 1,843 sq ft per typical floor that must be renovated but can never be rented as an apartment. The dimension marks the deepest interior point, 53 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: 1,843 sq ft on the floor the screen scores, and 23,272 sq ft over 12 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 a condominium building: Denver's property records list 84 condominiums 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 12 residential floors this building carries 23,272 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 1512 Larimer St, 2026-09-19.

Suitability scoreStrong candidate	83 / 100
Storiesfrom 157 ft aerial-survey height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	13
Height bandsfloor plate by floor range, from the city's roof outlines	Floors 1–2: 28,619 sq ft · Floor 3: 18,912 sq ft · Floors 4–5: 18,086 sq ft · Floors 6–12: 12,236 sq ft · Floor 13: 5,273 sq ft
Floor platetypical floor, from the city outlines	12,236 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	87%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	53 ft
Windowless coretypical floor; the building-wide total is in the text above	1,843 sq ft
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

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

The typical floor has 425 ft of exterior wall, and across 12 residential floors the building carries 6,579 ft of it in total, divided among the 161 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is compact at 0.85: 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 13.4 homes per floor, repeated on every residential floor, since this building's outline does not change as it rises.

Why 1512 Larimer St scores 83 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 93, Interior depth 67, Scale 100, Finance 60 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Score components for 1512 Larimer St. Points are the subscore times its weight.

Component	Subscore	Weight	Points
Daylight efficiency87% of the floor area within 35 ft of a facade, scored from 40% up to 90%	93	45%	42.0
Interior depthdeepest interior point 53 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft	67	25%	16.8
Scale161 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150	100	15%	15.0
Financeremaining gap is 24% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%	60	15%	9.0

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is finance, at 60 out of 100: remaining gap is 24% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%.

Other buildings screened near 1512 Larimer St

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 170 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

1575 Lawrence St
6 stories · 97% daylit · already a condominium building
about 170 ft away
1551 Larimer St
26 stories · 90% daylit · already a condominium building
about 220 ft away
1321 15th St
12 stories · 76% daylit · 216 estimated homes · scores 72/100 (Strong candidate)
about 360 ft away
1111 15th St
19 stories · 86% daylit · 562 estimated homes · scores 83/100 (Strong candidate)
about 380 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.