1776 N Grant St

Where 1776 N Grant St is

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

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 574 ft of exterior wall, and across 12 residential floors the building carries 6,180 ft of it in total, divided among the 151 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is moderately compact at 0.55: 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 12.6 homes per floor. Its floors are not alike, though: the typical floor's deepest interior point is 34 ft from a facade, while its worst floor reaches 57 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 1776 N Grant St scores 97 out of 100

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

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is finance, at 78 out of 100: remaining gap is 13% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%.

What the conversion would cost

$360 per square foot all-in across 142,618 sq ft of converted floor, or $51.3M in total — about $340K for each of the 151 homes.

That cost is charged across every converted square foot, including the 859 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 151 homes is $35.6M.

What would have to be true

A $15.7M gap before any grant, $6.6M after the modeled one. The smallest single change that would close it: average unit size 14% down.

The shortfall before any grant is $15.7M. Closing it from the value side means each of the 151 homes finishing at $340K rather than the $236K the model assumes — 44% more. Closing it from the cost side means getting all-in cost down from $360 to $250 per square foot.

A modeled RESIDE grant of $9.1M moves that threshold to $280K a home. That is still above the $236K assumed, leaving $6.6M uncovered, which is why the grant does not unlock this one.

Nor do all four levers have to move. For 1776 N Grant St, one alone would close the gap at:

All four are sliders in the survey, where 1776 N Grant St re-scores against your own numbers.

How it compares in Greater Downtown Denver

1776 N Grant St ranks 1st of the 208 buildings screened here, against a median score of 73.

Its floor plate is better lit than 91% of them, and shallower than 90% of them at its deepest interior point. On size it is the 131st largest by estimated homes. The full survey of all 208 buildings ranks and maps every one of them, and the list by address links each to its own page.

Within North Capitol Hill and the C-MX-12 zone

1st of 41 in North Capitol Hill, 1st of 16 zoned C-MX-12 — the comparison that shares its rules, rents and streets.

Denver places 41 of the screened buildings in North Capitol Hill. 1776 N Grant St ranks 1st of them against a median score of 85, the top score in the group. 32 score 70 or more, their median deepest interior point is 47 ft from a facade against this building’s 34 ft, and together they would hold an estimated 8,820 homes.

16 of the screened buildings are zoned C-MX-12. 1776 N Grant St ranks 1st of them against a median score of 85, the top score in the group. 13 score 70 or more, their median deepest interior point is 44 ft from a facade against this building’s 34 ft, and together they would hold an estimated 2,006 homes.

Its nearest match in size: 1510 16th St

The screened building closest to 1776 N Grant St in converted floor area is 1510 16th St: 139,025 sq ft over 11 stories, against 142,618 sq ft over 13 here.

1776 N Grant St scores 97 to its 73, and with the size held roughly equal most of that lead comes from interior depth: 100 out of 100 here, 48 there (deepest interior point 61 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft). On the money they sit in the same place: each falls short even with the modeled grant. The two stand about 5,100 ft apart.

Would it qualify for a RESIDE Act grant?

The model awards 1776 N Grant St $9.1M, 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 1776 N Grant St

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 250 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

• 303 E 17th Ave
  12 stories · 66% daylit · 256 estimated homes · scores 56/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
  about 250 ft away
• 1800 N Grant St
  10 stories · 85% daylit · 121 estimated homes · scores 82/100 (Strong candidate)
  about 310 ft away
• 1770 N Sherman St
  9 stories · 89% daylit · 82 estimated homes · scores 82/100 (Strong candidate)
  about 370 ft away
• 1790 N Logan St
  6 stories · 100% daylit · 67 estimated homes · scores 89/100 (Strong candidate)
  about 390 ft away