1575 Lawrence St

1575 Lawrence St is a 6-story condominium building in Greater Downtown Denver. Its floor plate has 97% of its area within daylight reach of a facade and scores 88 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

No address point in Denver’s records falls inside this footprint, so it is named by the closest one that no other screened building claims — usually a site entrance, but check the outline on the plan below before relying on the street number.

Where 1575 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

Already housing
Not screened
1575 Lawrence St

1575 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. 1575 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: 97% of the building’s floor area sits within daylight reach of a facade; the drawing shows its typical floor, where the share is 98%. The shading is daylight, darkest at the windows and gone 35 ft in. The hatched area is windowless core: 517 sq ft per typical floor that must be renovated but can never be rented as an apartment. The dimension marks the deepest interior point, 42 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: 517 sq ft on the floor the screen scores, and 2,084 sq ft over 5 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 5 residential floors this building carries 2,084 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 1575 Lawrence St, 2026-09-19.

Suitability scoreStrong candidate	88 / 100
Storiesfrom 71 ft aerial-survey height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	6
Height bandsfloor plate by floor range, from the city's roof outlines	Floor 1: 39,163 sq ft · Floor 2: 25,256 sq ft · Floors 3–4: 22,478 sq ft · Floor 5: 8,533 sq ft · Floor 6: 995 sq ft
Floor platetypical floor, from the city outlines	22,478 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	97%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	42 ft
Windowless coretypical floor; the building-wide total is in the text above	517 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

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

The typical floor has 1,146 ft of exterior wall, and across 5 residential floors the building carries 4,021 ft of it in total, divided among the 82 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is highly articulated at 0.22: 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 16.4 homes per floor. Its floors are not alike, though: the typical floor's deepest interior point is 42 ft from a facade, while its worst floor reaches 69 ft. The score follows the typical floor, so a podium that could not hold a bedroom does not by itself sink a slim tower above it — but it is there, and it is part of what would have to be drawn around.

Why 1575 Lawrence St scores 88 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 100, Interior depth 94, Scale 55, Finance 74 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Score components for 1575 Lawrence St. Points are the subscore times its weight.

Component	Subscore	Weight	Points
Daylight efficiency97% of the floor area within 35 ft of a facade, scored from 40% up to 90%	100	45%	45.0
Interior depthdeepest interior point 42 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft	94	25%	23.6
Scale82 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150	55	15%	8.2
Financeremaining gap is 15% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%	74	15%	11.1

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is scale, at 55 out of 100: 82 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150.

Other buildings screened near 1575 Lawrence 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.

1512 Larimer St
13 stories · 87% daylit · already a condominium building
about 170 ft away
1111 15th St
19 stories · 86% daylit · 562 estimated homes · scores 83/100 (Strong candidate)
about 260 ft away
1475 Lawrence St
8 stories · 94% daylit · 117 estimated homes · scores 87/100 (Strong candidate)
about 320 ft away
1551 Larimer St
26 stories · 90% daylit · already a condominium building
about 330 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.