1100 15th Street - Central
Business District
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Height:
540'
Stories: 42
2000-2003
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1100
15th Street was first proposed in 2000 by Hines
Interests during a brief period of time when downtown's
vacancy rate was flirting with 4%.
At 540' tall and 42 stories, coupled with a beautiful
design courtesty of Pickard Chilton Architects,
1100 15th Street would have made an impressive enhancement
to downtown Denver, giving Denver's skyline the
"facelift" that so many believe it desperately
needs.
Unfortunately, Hines had trouble signing on new
tenants for this 640,000 square-foot tower, and
the plug was pulled on the project in May 2003. |
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Height:
721'
Stories: 57
mid-1980s
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Reliance
Center was set to rise in the mid-1980s and would
have become Denver's tallest skyscraper with 57
stories. A joint venture between Denver developer
W. Scott Moore (of Trango fame) and the Reliance
Group, the building was slated to rise on Moore's
land between 15th and 16th Streets, and Welton and
Glenarm, now occupied mostly by the Denver Pavillions.
Trango Tower has also been proposed on this very same site. |
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Height:
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Stories: 56
1980s |
Admittedly,
we here at DenverSkyscrapers.com know very little
about these two buildings.
We do know that they were designed by world-renowned
architect Kevin Roche and, judging by their twin
tower design, we can only assume that they were
the original design concepts for the World Trade
Center (1675 and 1625 Broadway) |
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Height:
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Stories: 55
early 1980s
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The
Capitol Tower, at 55 stories, was designed in the
very early 1980s by Denver architect C.W. Fentress
(Fentress Bradburn) and would have risen one block
south of Lincoln Center. The building would have
been within blocks of the Colorado State Capitol,
hence its name "Capitol Tower".
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Height:
550'
Stories: 41
1980s
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Two
Tabor Center was set to rise with the other Tabor
Center buildings in 1984. The shopping mall and
One Tabor were completed first and, in 1984, the
groundwork began for this massive 41-story tower.
The foundations and elevator cores were completed,
but the real estate crash of the 1980s doomed the
tower's climb into the sky.
Because the foundations and groundwork for the tower
has been completed for the last 20 years, Tabor
Center owner Equity Office has toyed with the idea
of completing Two Tabor.
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Two Tabor Center (1999
redesign)
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Height:
550'
Stories: 41
1999 |
In
1999, when office vacancy rates in Denver hit a
20-year low, Equity Office not only dusted off the
original blueprints for Two Tabor Center, but they
commissioned an entirely new design.
The new design would have kept the same footprint
as the original design (given the foundations already
"outline" the footprint of whatever will
eventually be built at the site), but the economy
soured once again. Why is it that every time Two
Tabor is about to rise the economy takes a dive?
We're at 0-2 now. |
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Height:
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Stories: 35
1980s
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One
Mile High Plaza would have been a gem on the Denver
skyline with its cascading waterfall-type facade.
The 35-story tower would have featured a glass wall
nearly as impressive as that on 1999 Broadway, another
design of Fentress Bradburn. The building was proposed
in the mid 1980s but, like so many of Denver's unbuilt
towers, fell victim to the real estate crash. |
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Height:
NA'
Stories: 51
early 1980s |
The
YMCA Tower would have risen on the site of the now-landmark
YMCA building on the south end of downtown Denver.
In 1981, plans called for this 51-story tower to
incorporate the YMCA facilities into the bottom
seven floors and feature 44 floors of offices above
that.
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Convention Center Hotel (first
version)
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Height:
500'
Stories: 38
1999-2001 |
When
Denver voters approved the funding of the expansion
of the Colorado Convention Center, they also approved
a $50M subsidy that would have aided developer Bruce
Berger in constructing an adjoining 1,100-room hotel.
Berger quickly commissioned KCJD Architects of Denver
to design this impressive, 38-story version of the
hotel. Berger was ultimately unable to get financing
for the project, and the City of Denver is now undertaking
a new hotel design on its own, also by KCJD Architects. |
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Convention Center Hotel (second
version)
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Height:
NA
Stories: 32
2001-2002 |
When
the original hotel design (above) proved too expensive
for financers to stomach, hotel developer Bruce
Berger asked KCJD to come up with yet another hotel
design.
Bruce Berger is now out of the hotel picture completely,
and the City of Denver has taken on the task of
building this 1,100 room hotel. Current plans call
for a 38-story tower and a 26-story tower as impressive
as the first hotel design. |
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Height:
324'
Stories: 24
late 1990s |
425
15th Street was slated to be built on 15th between
Glenarm and Court Streets in downtown Denver. A
project of Brookfield Properties, this 24-story
tower would have contained 10 floors of parking
and 14 floors of office space above that.
Even at a time when Denver's office market was very
attractive for new construction, Brookfield was
unable to complete this relatively small project. |
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Height:
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Stories: 18
late 1990s |
Colorado
Center Tower 3 was set to join Colorado Centers
1 and 2 at the intersection of Colorado Boulevard
and I-25, some 10 miles south of downtown Denver.
The metro economy eventually began to slip, dooming
the project for the foreseeable future. |
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