2100 Blake St

2100 Blake St is a 8-story apartment building in Greater Downtown Denver. Its floor plate has 96% of its area within daylight reach of a facade and scores 95 out of 100 on this screen’s measures, which is part of why it works as housing.

CO-1 · Screened 2026-10-04 · Already housing

Also addressed as 2120 Blake St: Denver’s address records place both on this one footprint.

Where 2100 Blake 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
2100 Blake St

2100 Blake 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. 2100 Blake 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: 96% of the building’s floor area sits within daylight reach of a facade; the drawing shows its typical floor, where the share is 100%. The shading is daylight, darkest at the windows and gone 35 ft in. The hatched area is windowless core: 36 sq ft per typical floor that must be renovated but can never be rented as an apartment. The dimension marks the deepest interior point, 37 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: 36 sq ft on the floor the screen scores, and 10,381 sq ft over 7 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 164 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 7 residential floors this building carries 10,381 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 2100 Blake St, 2026-10-04.

Suitability scoreStrong candidate	95 / 100
Storiesfrom 91 ft aerial-survey height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	8
Height bandsfloor plate by floor range, from the city's roof outlines	Floors 1–2: 44,911 sq ft · Floors 3–4: 39,338 sq ft · Floors 5–6: 34,135 sq ft · Floors 7–8: 27,539 sq ft
Floor platetypical floor, from the city outlines	39,338 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	96%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	37 ft
Windowless coretypical floor; the building-wide total is in the text above	36 sq ft
BuiltDenver does not publish a construction year with this data	—
ZoningFive Points	R-MU-30
Opportunity Zonenot in a 2018 designated tract	No

The plan: window line, shape and floor rhythm

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

The typical floor has 1,540 ft of exterior wall, and across 7 residential floors the building carries 9,702 ft of it in total, divided among the 252 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is highly articulated at 0.21: 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 36.0 homes per floor. Its floors are not alike, though: the typical floor's deepest interior point is 37 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 2100 Blake St scores 95 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 100, Interior depth 100, Scale 100, Finance 64 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Score components for 2100 Blake St. Points are the subscore times its weight.

Component	Subscore	Weight	Points
Daylight efficiency96% of the floor area within 35 ft of a facade, scored from 40% up to 90%	100	45%	45.0
Interior depthdeepest interior point 37 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft	100	25%	25.0
Scale252 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150	100	15%	15.0
Financeremaining gap is 22% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%	64	15%	9.5

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is finance, at 64 out of 100: remaining gap is 22% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%.

Other buildings screened near 2100 Blake St

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 140 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

2101 Market St
7 stories · 90% daylit · 227 estimated homes · scores 80/100 (Strong candidate)
about 140 ft away
2210 Blake St
5 stories · 78% daylit · 68 estimated homes · scores 60/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
about 420 ft away
2229 Blake St
6 stories · 77% daylit · already a condominium building
about 500 ft away
2001 Blake St
11 stories · 72% daylit · 1,440 estimated homes · scores 35/100 (Marginal)
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.