300 E 17th Ave

300 E 17th Ave is a 12-story building in Greater Downtown Denver with 100% of its floor area within daylight reach of a facade. This screen estimates 224 homes and scores it 96 out of 100 for office-to-residential conversion suitability.

CO-1 · Screened 2026-09-13 · Strong candidate

300 E 17th Ave 100% of the building’s floor area sits within daylight reach of a facade; the drawing shows its typical floor, where the share is 100%, with no dead core at all.

This building does not pencil at default assumptions, even with a modeled RESIDE Act grant.

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 300 E 17th Ave, 2026-09-13.
Suitability scoreStrong candidate96 / 100
Storiesfrom 147 ft aerial-survey height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor12
Height bandsfloor plate by floor range, from the city's roof outlinesFloors 1–2: 25,077 sq ft · Floor 3: 23,735 sq ft · Floors 4–11: 19,673 sq ft · Floor 12: 4,374 sq ft
Floor platetypical floor, from the city outlines19,673 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade100%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft35 ft
Windowless corea measured sliver under 10 sq ft, not counted as windowless floor1 sq ft
Estimated homesat 750 sq ft average224
Conversion cost$360/sq ft all-in on 210,568 sq ft$75.8M
Gap before grantshortfall against completed value$22.9M
Modeled RESIDE grantat the statutory per-award cap$10.0M
ZoningNorth Capitol HillPUD

These figures are a screen, not a feasibility study, and they come from public footprint and height data rather than from plans. See how this was computed and what it cannot tell you, or open this building in the interactive survey to change the assumptions behind it.