891 14th St

891 14th St is a 39-story condominium building in Greater Downtown Denver. Its floor plate has 70% of its area within daylight reach of a facade and scores 56 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

Also addressed as 893 14th St: Denver’s address records place both on this one footprint.

Where 891 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
Not screened
891 14th St

891 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. 891 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: 70% of the building’s floor area sits within daylight reach of a facade; the drawing shows its typical floor, where the share is 71%. The shading is daylight, darkest at the windows and gone 35 ft in. The hatched area is windowless core: 8,446 sq ft per typical floor that must be renovated but can never be rented as an apartment. The dimension marks the deepest interior point, 63 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: 8,446 sq ft on the floor the screen scores, and 321,602 sq ft over 38 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 a condominium building: Denver's property records list 992 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.

Across its 38 residential floors this building carries 321,602 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 891 14th St, 2026-09-19.

Suitability scoreWorth a feasibility study	56 / 100
Storiesfrom 468 ft aerial-survey height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	39
Height bandsfloor plate by floor range, from the city's roof outlines	Floors 1–7: 38,172 sq ft · Floor 8: 30,507 sq ft · Floors 9–36: 29,089 sq ft · Floors 37–38: 5,695 sq ft · Floor 39: 1,079 sq ft
Floor platetypical floor, from the city outlines	29,089 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	70%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	63 ft
Windowless coretypical floor; the building-wide total is in the text above	8,446 sq ft
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

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

The typical floor has 766 ft of exterior wall, and across 38 residential floors the building carries 28,672 ft of it in total, divided among the 815 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is moderately compact at 0.62: 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 21.4 homes per floor, repeated on every residential floor, since this building's outline does not change as it rises.

Why 891 14th St scores 56 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 61, Interior depth 42, Scale 100, Finance 20 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Score components for 891 14th St. Points are the subscore times its weight.

Component	Subscore	Weight	Points
Daylight efficiency70% of the floor area within 35 ft of a facade, scored from 40% up to 90%	61	45%	27.4
Interior depthdeepest interior point 63 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft	42	25%	10.6
Scale815 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150	100	15%	15.0
Financeremaining gap is 48% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%	20	15%	2.9

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is finance, at 20 out of 100: remaining gap is 48% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%.

Other buildings screened near 891 14th St

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 230 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

800 15th St
7 stories · 100% daylit · 89 estimated homes · scores 91/100 (Strong candidate)
about 230 ft away
931 14th St
22 stories · 72% daylit · 979 estimated homes · scores 47/100 (Marginal)
about 270 ft away
1400 Stout St
18 stories · 76% daylit · 344 estimated homes · scores 66/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
about 350 ft away
801 15th St
19 stories · 92% daylit · 213 estimated homes · scores 94/100 (Strong candidate)
about 420 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.