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Blocks 244 & 267
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Street elevation photos were taken in
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Block
Address Ranges:
1500
(Even): Cleveland Place
100
(Even): 16th Street Mall
1600
(Odd): Broadway
100
(Odd): W. Colfax Avenue
Parking
Lots /
Vacant:
15%
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Block
Locator:
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Cleveland
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16th Street
Mall: |
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DNA
Building |
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Name:
Denver Newspaper Agency Building
Type:
Office
Square
Footage: 318,400
Description: A 11-story office building with 667 underground parking
spaces, ground floor retail and an auditorium.
Cost:
$85 million
Developer:
Denver Newspaper Agency
Architect:
Newman, Cavender & Doane
Contractor: Hensel Phelps Construction
Current
status:
Project
completed Fall, 2006.
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The parking
lot on Block 244 ranked way up there on everyone's "worst place to have an
ugly parking lot" list. Across the street from the Pioneer Fountain
memorial (on tiny Block 267), RTD's Civic Center Station, and Civic Center
Park, the surface lot there was as an asphalt wasteland at the crossroads of
Downtown. Thankfully, the new DNA building filled the gap and serves as a
much-needed link between the park and the high-rises of Downtown. The
building is set back 25 feet along Colfax for a landscaped lawn that mirrors
MacIntosh Plaza next door in front of the Webb Municipal Office Building.
The new DNA Building's presence finally gives some respect to the Pioneer
Fountain, which for years has been a forgotten island surrounded by pavement
and motor vehicles. |
DNA
Building
construction
(2004-11) |
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