1900 17th St

Where 1900 17th 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

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

The typical floor has 816 ft of exterior wall, and across 12 residential floors the building carries 9,582 ft of it in total, divided among the 253 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is elongated at 0.43: a slab or an L, which is why so much of the floor lies within reach of a window: the outline buys daylight that a square plan of the same area would not. How window line and plate shape are measured.

At the model’s 750 sq ft average, the plan works out at about 21.1 homes per floor. Its floors are not alike, though: the typical floor's deepest interior point is 43 ft from a facade, while its worst floor reaches 60 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 1900 17th St scores 91 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 100, Interior depth 92, Scale 100, Finance 56 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is finance, at 56 out of 100: remaining gap is 26% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%.

What the conversion would cost

$360 per square foot all-in across 262,309 sq ft of converted floor, or $94.4M in total — about $373K for each of the 253 homes.

That cost is charged across every converted square foot, including the 24,577 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 253 homes is $59.7M.

What would have to be true

A $34.7M gap before any grant, $24.7M after the modeled one. The smallest single change that would close it: average unit size 29% down.

The shortfall before any grant is $34.7M. Closing it from the value side means each of the 253 homes finishing at $373K rather than the $236K the model assumes — 58% more. Closing it from the cost side means getting all-in cost down from $360 to $228 per square foot.

A modeled RESIDE grant of $10.0M moves that threshold to $334K a home. That is still above the $236K assumed, leaving $24.7M uncovered, which is why the grant does not unlock this one.

Nor do all four levers have to move. For 1900 17th St, one alone would close the gap at:

All four are sliders in the survey, where 1900 17th St re-scores against your own numbers.

How it compares in Greater Downtown Denver

1900 17th St ranks 19th of the 214 buildings screened here, against a median score of 72.

Its floor plate is better lit than 78% of them, and shallower than 77% of them at its deepest interior point. On size it is the 85th largest by estimated homes. The full survey of all 214 buildings ranks and maps every one of them, and the list by address links each to its own page.

Within Union Station and the PUD zone

3rd of 55 in Union Station, 4th of 21 zoned PUD — the comparison that shares its rules, rents and streets.

Denver places 55 of the screened buildings in Union Station. 1900 17th St ranks 3rd of them against a median score of 69. 23 score 70 or more, their median deepest interior point is 61 ft from a facade against this building’s 43 ft, and together they would hold an estimated 13,167 homes. The group’s top scorer is 1600 17th St, at 95.

21 of the screened buildings are zoned PUD. 1900 17th St ranks 4th of them against a median score of 77. 12 score 70 or more, their median deepest interior point is 49 ft from a facade against this building’s 43 ft, and together they would hold an estimated 5,808 homes. The group’s top scorer is 300 E 17th Ave, at 96.

Its nearest match in size: 1321 15th St

The screened building closest to 1900 17th St in converted floor area is 1321 15th St: 266,220 sq ft over 12 stories, against 262,309 sq ft over 13 here.

1900 17th St scores 91 to its 72, and with the size held roughly equal most of that lead comes from daylight efficiency: 100 out of 100 here, 72 there (76% of the floor area within 35 ft of a facade, scored from 40% up to 90%). On the money they sit in the same place: each falls short even with the modeled grant. The two stand about 2,100 ft apart.

Would it qualify for a RESIDE Act grant?

The model awards 1900 17th St $10.0M, 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 1900 17th St

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 160 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

• 1989 16th St
  13 stories · 71% daylit · 254 estimated homes · scores 59/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
  about 160 ft away
• 2001 16th St
  22 stories · 71% daylit · 494 estimated homes · scores 58/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
  about 280 ft away
• 1650 Wewatta St
  20 stories · 84% daylit · already an apartment building
  about 300 ft away
• 2005 17th St
  12 stories · 86% daylit · 144 estimated homes · scores 87/100 (Strong candidate)
  about 400 ft away