2000 16th St

Where 2000 16th 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

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

The typical floor has 870 ft of exterior wall, and across 17 residential floors the building carries 18,521 ft of it in total, divided among the 552 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is moderately compact at 0.60: 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 32.5 homes per floor. Its floors are not alike, though: the typical floor's deepest interior point is 66 ft from a facade, while its worst floor reaches 72 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 2000 16th St scores 51 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 54, Interior depth 36, Scale 100, Finance 17 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is finance, at 17 out of 100: remaining gap is 50% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%.

What the conversion would cost

$360 per square foot all-in across 772,133 sq ft of converted floor, or $278.0M in total — about $504K for each of the 552 homes.

That cost is charged across every converted square foot, including the 254,226 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 552 homes is $130.3M.

What would have to be true

A $147.7M gap before any grant, $137.7M after the modeled one. The smallest single change that would close it: average unit size 51% down.

The shortfall before any grant is $147.7M. Closing it from the value side means each of the 552 homes finishing at $504K rather than the $236K the model assumes — 113% more. Closing it from the cost side means getting all-in cost down from $360 to $169 per square foot.

A modeled RESIDE grant of $10.0M moves that threshold to $485K a home. That is still above the $236K assumed, leaving $137.7M uncovered, which is why the grant does not unlock this one.

Nor do all four levers have to move. For 2000 16th St, one alone would close the gap at:

All four are sliders in the survey, where 2000 16th St re-scores against your own numbers.

How it compares in Greater Downtown Denver

2000 16th St ranks 192nd of the 214 buildings screened here, against a median score of 72.

Its floor plate is better lit than 7% of them, and shallower than 14% of them at its deepest interior point. On size it is the 31st 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

52nd of 55 in Union Station, 18th of 21 zoned PUD — the comparison that shares its rules, rents and streets.

Denver places 55 of the screened buildings in Union Station. 2000 16th St ranks 52nd 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 66 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. 2000 16th St ranks 18th 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 66 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: 899 N Bannock St

The screened building closest to 2000 16th St in converted floor area is 899 N Bannock St: 791,542 sq ft over 17 stories, against 772,133 sq ft over 18 here.

2000 16th St scores 51 to its 67, and with the size held roughly equal most of that shortfall comes from interior depth: 36 out of 100 here, 72 there (deepest interior point 51 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 9,000 ft apart.

Would it qualify for a RESIDE Act grant?

The model awards 2000 16th 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 2000 16th St

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 200 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

• 1900 16th St
  23 stories · 74% daylit · 417 estimated homes · scores 62/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
  about 200 ft away
• 1485 Delgany St
  6 stories · 99% daylit · 35 estimated homes · scores 85/100 (Strong candidate)
  about 350 ft away
• 1475 Delgany St
  8 stories · 100% daylit · already a condominium building
  about 360 ft away
• 2100 16th St
  8 stories · 89% daylit · already a condominium building
  about 410 ft away