700 14th St

700 14th St is a 10-story building in Greater Downtown Denver with 20% of its floor area within daylight reach of a facade. This screen estimates 1,710 homes and scores it 15 out of 100 for office-to-residential conversion suitability.

CO-1 · Screened 2026-09-19 · Unlikely

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Also addressed as 890 14th St, 1101 California St, 1121 California St, 1254 Champa St, 1324 Champa St, 1325 Stout St and 1239 Welton St: Denver’s address records place all 8 on this one footprint.

Where 700 14th 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
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700 14th St

700 14th 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. 700 14th 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. Its windowless core is hatched. The inset places it among every building the screen covers.

Typical floor plan: 20% of the building’s floor area sits within daylight reach of a facade; the drawing shows its typical floor, where the share is 17%. The shading is daylight, darkest at the windows and gone 35 ft in. The hatched area is windowless core: 835,949 sq ft per typical floor that must be renovated but can never be rented as an apartment. The dimension marks the deepest interior point, 442 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, fading as it goes, and the hatched stripe left between the lit edges is floor that gets converted and can never be rented: 835,949 sq ft on the floor the screen scores, and 6,617,758 sq ft over 9 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 building does not pencil at default assumptions, even with a modeled RESIDE Act grant.

Across its 9 residential floors this building carries 6,617,758 sq ft of windowless core — area that must be gutted, re-plumbed and sprinklered but can never be rented as an apartment.

Read with caution. This footprint carries 8 street addresses across 1,005,273 sq ft, which usually means the city’s GIS has merged a block or complex into a single polygon rather than describing one convertible building.

Modeled conversion metrics for 700 14th St, 2026-09-19.

Suitability scoreUnlikely	15 / 100
Storiesfrom 125 ft aerial-survey height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	10
Height bandsfloor plate by floor range, from the city's roof outlines	Floors 1–2: 1,079,126 sq ft · Floor 3: 1,077,206 sq ft · Floors 4–5: 1,005,273 sq ft · Floor 6: 873,848 sq ft · Floors 7–8: 873,317 sq ft · Floors 9–10: 717,217 sq ft
Floor platetypical floor, from the city outlines	1,005,273 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	20%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	442 ft
Windowless coretypical floor; the building-wide total is in the text above	835,949 sq ft
Estimated homesat 750 sq ft average	1,710
Conversion cost$360/sq ft all-in on 8,221,795 sq ft	$2.96B
Gap before grantshortfall against completed value	$2.56B
Modeled RESIDE grantat the statutory per-award cap	$10.0M
BuiltDenver does not publish a construction year with this data	—
ZoningCBD	D-TD
Opportunity Zonenot in a 2018 designated tract	No

The plan: window line, shape and floor rhythm

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

The typical floor has 4,983 ft of exterior wall, and across 9 residential floors the building carries 47,165 ft of it in total, divided among the 1,710 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is moderately compact at 0.51: 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 190.0 homes per floor, repeated on every residential floor, since this building's outline does not change as it rises.

Why 700 14th St scores 15 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 0, Interior depth 0, Scale 100, Finance 0 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Score components for 700 14th St. Points are the subscore times its weight.

Component	Subscore	Weight	Points
Daylight efficiency20% of the floor area within 35 ft of a facade, scored from 40% up to 90%	0	45%	0.0
Interior depthdeepest interior point 442 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft	0	25%	0.0
Scale1710 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150	100	15%	15.0
Financeremaining gap is 86% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%	0	15%	0.0

Most of what it earns comes from scale, and what holds it back most is daylight efficiency, at 0 out of 100: 20% of the floor area within 35 ft of a facade, scored from 40% up to 90%.

What the conversion would cost

$360 per square foot all-in across 8,221,795 sq ft of converted floor, or $2.96B in total — about $1.7M for each of the 1,710 homes.

All-in cost per square foot for 700 14th St: base cost plus the code work a change of use triggers.

Base conversion cost	$260/sq ft
Plumbing risers to every unit	$40/sq ft
Operable windows and glazing	$30/sq ft
Additional egress stair	$18/sq ft
Fire sprinklers (NFPA 13R)	$12/sq ft
All-in	$360/sq ft

That cost is charged across every converted square foot, including the 6,617,758 sq ft of windowless core, which has to be gutted, re-plumbed and sprinklered like the rest of the building and then earns nothing. Against it the model sets a completed value of $236K a home, which for 1,710 homes is $403.6M.

What would have to be true

A $2.56B gap before any grant, $2.55B after the modeled one. The smallest single change that would close it: average unit size 86% down.

The shortfall before any grant is $2.56B. Closing it from the value side means each of the 1,710 homes finishing at $1.7M rather than the $236K the model assumes — 633% more. Closing it from the cost side means getting all-in cost down from $360 to $49 per square foot.

A modeled RESIDE grant of $10.0M moves that threshold to $1.7M a home. That is still above the $236K assumed, leaving $2.55B uncovered, which is why the grant does not unlock this one.

Nor do all four levers have to move. For 700 14th St, one alone would close the gap at:

Single-assumption flip points for 700 14th St, each holding the other three at their defaults.

Average unit sizethe binding constraint — the least this building would need	86% downto 103 sq ft
Completed value per home	631% upto $1.7M

All four are sliders in the survey, where 700 14th St re-scores against your own numbers.

How it compares in Greater Downtown Denver

700 14th St ranks 213th of the 214 buildings screened here, against a median score of 72.

Its floor plate is better lit than 0% of them, and shallower than 0% of them at its deepest interior point. On size it is the 2nd largest by estimated homes. The full survey of all 214 buildings ranks and maps every one of them, and the list by address links each to its own page.

Within CBD and the D-TD zone

74th of 75 in CBD, 19th of 20 zoned D-TD — the comparison that shares its rules, rents and streets.

Denver places 75 of the screened buildings in CBD. 700 14th St ranks 74th of them against a median score of 71. 40 score 70 or more, their median deepest interior point is 56 ft from a facade against this building’s 442 ft, and together they would hold an estimated 33,698 homes. The group’s top scorer is 918 17th St, at 97.

20 of the screened buildings are zoned D-TD. 700 14th St ranks 19th of them against a median score of 69. 10 score 70 or more, their median deepest interior point is 57 ft from a facade against this building’s 442 ft, and together they would hold an estimated 8,599 homes. The group’s top scorer is 918 17th St, at 97.

Its nearest match in size: 950 13th St

The screened building closest to 700 14th St in converted floor area is 950 13th St: 2,214,348 sq ft over 12 stories, against 8,221,795 sq ft over 10 here.

The two land within a few points of each other — 15 here, 15 there — so at this size the screen reads them as much the same prospect. On the money they sit in the same place: each falls short even with the modeled grant. The two stand about 900 ft apart.

Would it qualify for a RESIDE Act grant?

The model awards 700 14th St $10.0M, on the assumption it qualifies. Whether it does, no published dataset can say.

That figure assumes the building meets the Act’s vacant-and-abandoned test, which turns on code-enforcement and receivership records no city publishes.

It does not sit in a 2018 designated Opportunity Zone, so it would not draw that Section 201 priority.

Other buildings screened near 700 14th St

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 610 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

1250 Welton St
5 stories · 99% daylit · 133 estimated homes · scores 94/100 (Strong candidate)
about 610 ft away
1245 Champa St
6 stories · 100% daylit · 44 estimated homes · scores 86/100 (Strong candidate)
about 620 ft away
1400 Stout St
18 stories · 76% daylit · 344 estimated homes · scores 66/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
about 820 ft away
1325 Glenarm Pl
7 stories · 81% daylit · 191 estimated homes · scores 70/100 (Strong candidate)
about 850 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.