I like the idea of keeping the state government downtown, but the north end of DTR is dead. If I were king, I would double the height of the state govt buildings and replace them one by one. I would also get serious about mass transit, and sell off many/most of the parking lots owned by the State for private development. But I am not king, and I would never be voted in democratically. So all I can do is dream and hope.
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How many floors above the street is the Origin Hotel? Does anyone know? I ask because this gives us a really good juxtaposition of the difference between commercial building heights vs. hotel/residential occupancy buildings.
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What do you mean? Iâm not sure I follow. Do you mean to the top of the origin?
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How many floors above the street is the hotel? I donât care how many are at the garage levels below the street.
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I believe it will be 5. Theyâre working on floor 3 right now.
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Thanks. So, the hotel doesnât go as tall as the garage? Thatâs disappointing.
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The original renderings shows the hotel going to the top of the parking garage and topping out at 7 stories.
I donât know if this is still the plan however. Since a similar image is currently on the hotelâs website I would think itâs accurate.
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Itâs 7 stories, going to the top of the deck. You can see on the website the areas of the deck that are painted black, as opposed to grey. Thatâs where the hotel will be. It also matches up with the doors going into the deck at each level. And this rendering is updated and more accurate.
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Yeah the one I posted is more of a drawing and not a rendering; the only substantive change is that it appears the drawing has rooms on the corner facing the tracks whereas the rendering doesnât (or has windowless prison-cell like rooms.) Theyâre certainly building something on the tracks side but it remains to be seen if theyâre guest rooms or something else.
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It looks to me that theyâll be guest rooms on the levels above street level. Iâm guessing that front side that doesnât have windows now is like bathroom or AC vents.
Iâve been watching this project closely for awhile, particularly intrigued because several parts are like a puzzle Iâm trying to solve. Lol
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Iâm just mostly interested if weâre going to get a decent restaurant with the hotel (and with One Glen as well.) The Origin at Red Rocks looks like they have a cool little taqueria & beer garden.
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I hope so too but I think one Glenwood is just getting a burger place and the Dram and Draught. The hotel at least has the below ground thing, which is neat on its own.
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Have you seen it lit up at night? Pretty cool!
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We couldnât decide what sort of facade material we should use, so we just used all of them.
I really, really donât like this building.
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There is so much visual tension between the orange, taupe brick and glass it is mind numbing. Please give the architect a color blindness examâŚ
Not to mention that all those facade sections look like theyâve been slapped onto the building willy nilly.
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The big Maude pots are taking up a lot of the side walk, is for safety? Should have planted the trees in the ground.
They did both actually, pots and in-ground.
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I donât mind the east side. Sort of a Mondrian look to it.
West side is horrible though. Like they were trying to make it easier to get approval to put a building there to block it.
*edited for mixing up east/west, apologies.
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