3201 N Brighton Blvd

3201 N Brighton Blvd is a 6-story apartment building in Greater Downtown Denver. Its floor plate has 89% of its area within daylight reach of a facade and scores 74 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 3201 N Brighton Blvd is

Its block in Greater Downtown Denver, drawn from Denver's own building outlines and street centerlines.

3299 N Brighton Blvd: already housingN BRIGHTON BLVDARKINS CT31ST STRINGSBY CTN100 ftGreater Downtown Denver
Suitability score
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30–49
50–69
70–100
  • Already housing
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  • 3201 N Brighton Blvd
3201 N Brighton Blvd 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. 3201 N Brighton Blvd 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.
67 ftAA200 ftDaylit 89%Core 9,217 sq ft
Typical floor plan: 89% of the building’s floor area sits within daylight reach of a facade; the drawing shows its typical floor, where the share is 89%. The shading is daylight, darkest at the windows and gone 35 ft in. The hatched area is windowless core: 9,217 sq ft per typical floor that must be renovated but can never be rented as an apartment. The dimension marks the deepest interior point, 67 ft from the nearest window. A–A is where the section beside it is cut.
Windowless core6 floors50 ft
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: 9,217 sq ft on the floor the screen scores, and 46,489 sq ft over 5 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 274 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 5 residential floors this building carries 46,489 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 3201 N Brighton Blvd, 2026-09-19.

Suitability scoreStrong candidate74 / 100
Storiesfrom 78 ft aerial-survey height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor6
Height bandsfloor plate by floor range, from the city's roof outlinesFloors 1–2: 88,146 sq ft · Floors 3–4: 87,737 sq ft · Floor 5: 87,160 sq ft · Floor 6: 75,611 sq ft
Floor platetypical floor, from the city outlines87,737 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade89%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft67 ft
Windowless coretypical floor; the building-wide total is in the text above9,217 sq ft
BuiltDenver does not publish a construction year with this data—
ZoningFive PointsC-MX-12
Opportunity Zonenot in a 2018 designated tractNo

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 3,123 ft of exterior wall, and across 5 residential floors the building carries 15,150 ft of it in total, divided among the 405 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is highly articulated at 0.11: 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 81.0 homes per floor. Its floors are not alike, though: the typical floor's deepest interior point is 67 ft from a facade, while its worst floor reaches 72 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 3201 N Brighton Blvd scores 74 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 98, Interior depth 32, Scale 100, Finance 48 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Score components for 3201 N Brighton Blvd. Points are the subscore times its weight.

ComponentSubscoreWeightPoints
Daylight efficiency89% of the floor area within 35 ft of a facade, scored from 40% up to 90%9845%44.2
Interior depthdeepest interior point 67 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft3225%7.9
Scale405 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 15010015%15.0
Financeremaining gap is 31% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%4815%7.2

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is interior depth, at 32 out of 100: deepest interior point 67 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft.

Other buildings screened near 3201 N Brighton Blvd

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 430 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

  • 3299 N Brighton Blvd
    8 stories · 82% daylit · already an apartment building
    about 430 ft away
  • 3063 N Brighton Blvd
    9 stories · 84% daylit · already an apartment building
    about 800 ft away
  • 3320 N Brighton Blvd
    11 stories · 82% daylit · 207 estimated homes · scores 67/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
    about 880 ft away
  • 3198 Blake St
    7 stories · 81% daylit · 80 estimated homes · scores 64/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
    about 1,310 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.