2180 Stout St

Where 2180 Stout 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

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

The typical floor has 1,228 ft of exterior wall, and across 5 residential floors the building carries 5,783 ft of it in total, divided among the 137 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 27.4 homes per floor. Its floors are not alike, though: the typical floor's deepest interior point is 31 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 2180 Stout St scores 95 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 100, Interior depth 100, Scale 91, Finance 73 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is finance, at 73 out of 100: remaining gap is 16% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%.

What the conversion would cost

$360 per square foot all-in across 134,532 sq ft of converted floor, or $48.4M in total — about $354K for each of the 137 homes.

That cost is charged across every converted square foot, including the 5,589 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 137 homes is $32.3M.

What would have to be true

A $16.1M gap before any grant, $7.9M after the modeled one. The smallest single change that would close it: average unit size 16% down.

The shortfall before any grant is $16.1M. Closing it from the value side means each of the 137 homes finishing at $354K rather than the $236K the model assumes — 50% more. Closing it from the cost side means getting all-in cost down from $360 to $240 per square foot.

A modeled RESIDE grant of $8.2M moves that threshold to $294K a home. That is still above the $236K assumed, leaving $7.9M uncovered, which is why the grant does not unlock this one.

Nor do all four levers have to move. For 2180 Stout St, one alone would close the gap at:

All four are sliders in the survey, where 2180 Stout St re-scores against your own numbers.

How it compares in Greater Downtown Denver

2180 Stout St ranks 8th of the 208 buildings screened here, against a median score of 73.

Its floor plate is better lit than 86% of them, and shallower than 95% of them at its deepest interior point. On size it is the 140th 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 Five Points and the D-AS-20+ zone

1st of 19 in Five Points, 1st of 4 zoned D-AS-20+ — the comparison that shares its rules, rents and streets.

Denver places 19 of the screened buildings in Five Points. 2180 Stout St ranks 1st of them against a median score of 70, the top score in the group. 9 score 70 or more, their median deepest interior point is 61 ft from a facade against this building’s 31 ft, and together they would hold an estimated 4,687 homes.

4 of the screened buildings are zoned D-AS-20+. 2180 Stout St ranks 1st of them against a median score of 79, the top score in the group. 3 score 70 or more, their median deepest interior point is 50 ft from a facade against this building’s 31 ft, and together they would hold an estimated 688 homes.

Its nearest match in size: 1226 15th St

The screened building closest to 2180 Stout St in converted floor area is 1226 15th St: 132,219 sq ft over 6 stories, against 134,532 sq ft over 6 here.

2180 Stout St scores 95 to its 85, and with the size held roughly equal most of that lead comes from interior depth: 100 out of 100 here, 64 there (deepest interior point 55 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 3,800 ft apart.

Would it qualify for a RESIDE Act grant?

The model awards 2180 Stout St $8.2M, 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 2180 Stout St

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 150 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

• 2175 California St
  10 stories · 86% daylit · already an apartment building
  about 150 ft away
• 2075 N Broadway
  7 stories · 96% daylit · already an apartment building
  about 510 ft away
• 2014 California St
  12 stories · 87% daylit · already an apartment building
  about 620 ft away
• 2017 Welton St
  8 stories · 74% daylit · 117 estimated homes · scores 64/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
  about 680 ft away