444 17th St

444 17th St is a 12-story condominium building in Greater Downtown Denver. Its floor plate has 100% of its area within daylight reach of a facade and scores 90 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 444 17th 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
444 17th St

444 17th 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. 444 17th St 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. The inset places it among every building the screen covers.

Typical floor plan: 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. The shading is daylight, darkest at the windows and gone 35 ft in. The dimension marks the deepest interior point, 32 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 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 a condominium building: Denver's property records list 83 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.

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 444 17th St, 2026-09-19.

Suitability scoreStrong candidate	90 / 100
Storiesfrom 141 ft aerial-survey height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	12
Height bandsfloor plate by floor range, from the city's roof outlines	Floors 1–2: 11,326 sq ft · Floors 3–9: 9,005 sq ft · Floors 10–11: 2,143 sq ft · Floor 12: 1,643 sq ft
Floor platetypical floor, from the city outlines	9,005 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	100%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	32 ft
Windowless coretypical floor; the building-wide total is in the text above	0 sq ft
BuiltDenver does not publish a construction year with this data	—
ZoningCBD	D-C
Opportunity Zonenot in a 2018 designated tract	No

The plan: window line, shape and floor rhythm

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

The typical floor has 451 ft of exterior wall, and across 11 residential floors the building carries 4,338 ft of it in total, divided among the 85 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is moderately compact at 0.56: a squarish plan, with enough perimeter for a conventional double-loaded corridor. How window line and plate shape are measured.

At the model’s 750 sq ft average, the plan works out at about 7.7 homes per floor. Its floors are not alike, though: the typical floor's deepest interior point is 32 ft from a facade, while its worst floor reaches 35 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 444 17th St scores 90 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 100, Interior depth 100, Scale 57, Finance 78 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Score components for 444 17th 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 32 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft	100	25%	25.0
Scale85 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150	57	15%	8.5
Financeremaining gap is 13% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%	78	15%	11.8

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is scale, at 57 out of 100: 85 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150.

Other buildings screened near 444 17th St

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 140 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

410 17th St
27 stories · 81% daylit · 397 estimated homes · scores 74/100 (Strong candidate)
about 140 ft away
1600 Glenarm Pl
32 stories · 86% daylit · already an apartment building
about 230 ft away
501 16th St
23 stories · 81% daylit · 406 estimated homes · scores 69/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
about 260 ft away
475 17th St
18 stories · 86% daylit · 260 estimated homes · scores 75/100 (Strong candidate)
about 260 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.