2261 Blake St

2261 Blake St is a 6-story condominium building in Greater Downtown Denver. Its floor plate has 98% of its area within daylight reach of a facade and scores 86 out of 100 on this screen’s measures, which is part of why it works as housing.

CO-1 · Screened 2026-09-19 · Already housing

Where 2261 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
2261 Blake St

2261 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. 2261 Blake St is outlined in its own score color at the outline it covers at ground level. Its windowless core is hatched. The inset places it among every building the screen covers.

Floor plan: 98% of each floor sits within daylight reach of a facade. The shading is daylight, darkest at the windows and gone 35 ft in. The hatched area is windowless core: 194 sq ft per 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: 194 sq ft on the floor the screen scores, and 970 sq ft over 5 residential floors. The shaded ground floor is converted like the rest and counted as no homes.

This is already a condominium building: Denver's property records list 96 condominiums 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.

Every floor carries 194 sq ft of windowless core — area that must be gutted, re-plumbed and sprinklered but can never be rented as an apartment. Across 5 residential floors that is 970 sq ft of cost carrying no revenue.

Modeled conversion metrics for 2261 Blake St, 2026-09-19.

Suitability scoreStrong candidate	86 / 100
Storiesfrom 76 ft aerial-survey height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	6
Floor plateper floor, from the city footprint	9,098 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	98%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	37 ft
Windowless coreper floor — renovated but never rentable	194 sq ft
BuiltDenver does not publish a construction year with this data	—
ZoningFive Points	PUD
Opportunity Zonenot in a 2018 designated tract	No

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 394 ft of exterior wall, and across 5 residential floors the building carries 1,972 ft of it in total, divided among the 47 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is compact at 0.73: close to a square or a circle, the most efficient envelope an office can have and the least generous one for apartments: little perimeter to divide among homes. How window line and plate shape are measured.

At the model’s 750 sq ft average, the plan works out at about 9.4 homes per floor, repeated on every residential floor, since this building's outline does not change as it rises.

Why 2261 Blake St scores 86 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 100, Interior depth 100, Scale 31, Finance 75 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Score components for 2261 Blake St. Points are the subscore times its weight.

Component	Subscore	Weight	Points
Daylight efficiency98% 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
Scale47 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150	31	15%	4.7
Financeremaining gap is 15% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%	75	15%	11.2

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is scale, at 31 out of 100: 47 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150.

Other buildings screened near 2261 Blake St

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 180 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

2229 Blake St
6 stories · 77% daylit · already a condominium building
about 180 ft away
2210 Blake St
5 stories · 78% daylit · 68 estimated homes · scores 60/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
about 290 ft away
2100 Blake St
8 stories · 96% daylit · already an apartment building
about 670 ft away
2300 Walnut St
6 stories · 74% daylit · already an apartment building
about 690 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.