1589 Bassett Cir

1589 Bassett Cir is a 14-story apartment building in Greater Downtown Denver. Its floor plate has 87% of its area within daylight reach of a facade and scores 75 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 1590 Little Raven St: Denver’s address records place both on this one footprint.

Where 1589 Bassett Cir 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
1589 Bassett Cir

1589 Bassett Cir 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. 1589 Bassett Cir 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 89%. The shading is daylight, darkest at the windows and gone 35 ft in. The hatched area is windowless core: 10,912 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: 10,912 sq ft on the floor the screen scores, and 55,111 sq ft over 13 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 153 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 13 residential floors this building carries 55,111 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 1589 Bassett Cir, 2026-09-19.

Suitability scoreStrong candidate	75 / 100
Storiesfrom 166 ft aerial-survey height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	14
Height bandsfloor plate by floor range, from the city's roof outlines	Floors 1–2: 96,153 sq ft · Floor 3: 78,670 sq ft · Floor 4: 77,486 sq ft · Floor 5: 49,005 sq ft · Floors 6–8: 17,129 sq ft · Floors 9–11: 16,550 sq ft · Floor 12: 16,090 sq ft · Floor 13: 2,033 sq ft · Floor 14: 409 sq ft
Floor platetypical floor, from the city outlines	96,153 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	87%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	63 ft
Windowless coretypical floor; the building-wide total is in the text above	10,912 sq ft
BuiltDenver does not publish a construction year with this data	—
ZoningUnion Station	PUD
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 2,874 ft of exterior wall, and across 13 residential floors the building carries 13,624 ft of it in total, divided among the 390 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is highly articulated at 0.15: 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 30.0 homes per floor, repeated on every residential floor, since this building's outline does not change as it rises.

Why 1589 Bassett Cir scores 75 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 94, Interior depth 43, Scale 100, Finance 46 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Score components for 1589 Bassett Cir. 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%	94	45%	42.2
Interior depthdeepest interior point 63 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft	43	25%	10.9
Scale390 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150	100	15%	15.0
Financeremaining gap is 33% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%	46	15%	6.8

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is interior depth, at 43 out of 100: deepest interior point 63 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft.

Other buildings screened near 1589 Bassett Cir

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.

2100 16th St
8 stories · 89% daylit · already a condominium building
about 210 ft away
1604 Little Raven St
8 stories · 93% daylit · already a condominium building
about 430 ft away
2000 16th St
18 stories · 67% daylit · 552 estimated homes · scores 51/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
about 500 ft away
1441 Little Raven St
32 stories · 96% daylit · 368 estimated homes · scores 93/100 (Strong candidate)
about 540 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.