2300 Welton St

2300 Welton St is a 5-story apartment building in Greater Downtown Denver. Its floor plate has 100% of its area within daylight reach of a facade and scores 97 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

Where 2300 Welton 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
2300 Welton St

2300 Welton 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. 2300 Welton 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: 100% of each floor sits within daylight reach of a facade, with no dead core at all. The shading is daylight, darkest at the windows and gone 35 ft in. The dimension marks the deepest interior point, 35 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, and here it meets in the middle: the plate is thin enough that no floor is left windowless. 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 195 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.

This footprint has no windowless core at all: every point on the floor plate is within 35 ft of a facade, which is unusual and is the main reason it scores as well as it does.

Modeled conversion metrics for 2300 Welton St, 2026-10-04.

Suitability scoreStrong candidate	97 / 100
Storiesfrom 63 ft aerial-survey height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	5
Floor plateper floor, from the city footprint	41,354 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	100%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	35 ft
Windowless corea measured sliver under 10 sq ft, not counted as windowless floor	2 sq ft
BuiltDenver does not publish a construction year with this data	—
ZoningFive Points	C-MX-8
Opportunity Zonenot in a 2018 designated tract	No

The plan: window line, shape and floor rhythm

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

The typical floor has 1,625 ft of exterior wall, and across 4 residential floors the building carries 6,501 ft of it in total, divided among the 176 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is highly articulated at 0.20: 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 44.0 homes per floor, repeated on every residential floor, since this building's outline does not change as it rises.

Why 2300 Welton St scores 97 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 100, Interior depth 100, Scale 100, Finance 78 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Score components for 2300 Welton St. Points are the subscore times its weight.

Component	Subscore	Weight	Points
Daylight efficiency100% of the floor area within 35 ft of a facade, scored from 40% up to 90%	100	45%	45.0
Interior depthdeepest interior point 35 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft	100	25%	25.0
Scale176 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150	100	15%	15.0
Financeremaining gap is 13% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%	78	15%	11.6

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is finance, at 78 out of 100: remaining gap is 13% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%.

Other buildings screened near 2300 Welton St

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 580 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

530 25th St
5 stories · 91% daylit · already an apartment building
about 580 ft away
560 22nd St
16 stories · 88% daylit · already an apartment building
about 960 ft away
2175 California St
10 stories · 86% daylit · already an apartment building
about 1,040 ft away
2634 Welton St
9 stories · 89% daylit · already an apartment building
about 1,040 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.