500 E 19th Ave

500 E 19th Ave is a 6-story building in Greater Downtown Denver with 98% of its floor area within daylight reach of a facade. This screen estimates 172 homes and scores it 95 out of 100 for office-to-residential conversion suitability.

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

500 E 19th Ave — 98% of each floor sits within daylight reach of a facade. The hatched area is windowless core: 753 sq ft per floor that must be renovated but can never be rented as an apartment. Deepest interior point: 41 ft from the nearest window.

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

Every floor carries 753 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 3,764 sq ft of cost carrying no revenue.

Modeled conversion metrics for 500 E 19th Ave, 2026-09-13.
Suitability scoreStrong candidate	95 / 100
Storiesfrom 68 ft aerial-survey height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	6
Floor plateper floor, from the city footprint	33,160 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	98%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	41 ft
Windowless coreper floor — renovated but never rentable	753 sq ft
Estimated homesat 750 sq ft average	172
Conversion cost$360/sq ft all-in on 165,799 sq ft	$59.7M
Gap before grantshortfall against completed value	$19.1M
Modeled RESIDE grantat the statutory per-award cap	$10.0M
ZoningNorth Capitol Hill	R-4-X

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.