Thursday, May 10, 2007

 

Motor Hotel Garage Demolition Underway

Demolition has finally begun on Downtown Denver's old Motor Hotel parking garage at 14th and Stout across from the Colorado Convention Center, although the work to date has been confined just to the rooftop. But, from the heavy duty barricades they've recently brought in, it looks like demolition of the full structure can't be too far off.



The parking garage site will be the future home to a new Embassy Suites/Homewood Suites hotel, shown below:



Downtown Denver: Rebuilding the Core.

Comments:
is this parking lot where the spire will be?
 
Anon 5:15...you're kidding right? Did you not just read the entire blog post?? It's where the Embassy Suites will be.
 
Easy there tiger, no reason to be that upset about an innocent question.
 
Part of the parking lot in the foreground will be part of Spire.
 
thank you anon 3:33 thats what I was refering to the parking lot in the picture to the left of embassy suites, anon 8:10, the parking lot??
 
4:53, Clear and concise descriptions make it easier to decipher ones posts. If you meant the parking lot, then surely you should have said, "Is the parking lot in the rendering where Spire will be?"
 
don't be bitter anon 8:47 I did say parking lot not parking garage, did you read the entire blog post?? And while you where reading it did you happen to see the clear and concise picture with the parking lot across from the embassy suites hotel??
I can ask questions anyway I would like, can somebody say BITTER fss, fss.
 
The top of that building is almost gone, still no update on when it will all go down, but soon, since from my job you can see inside the top floor. The spire construstion is coming along to, but has anybody noticed that it's a tiny block and a half? Does anybody know if La Boheme will go away? Also, doesn't the Spire, look an awful like the Hyatt Regency?
 
i noticed that the clock had been taken off. i'm hoping they're saving that to incorporate into the new building. i really, really hope the building la boheme is in will not go away. i think that alongside it, there should be small infill projects. these mega-block projects really intimidate me. i'm worried that if one structure takes up a whole block, that it will not imitate the diversity of older blocks with smaller projects on them. is this a legitimate fear?? if all we have are hotel lobbies to look at, then we have little reason to be engaged on that street, and little reason to walk and use the street. i think a good way to counter a large project like that is to keep buildings like that of la boheme intact and build small infill projects to complement it. (they, of course, don't have to complement the TYPE of business, just the streetscape and general feeling.) any thoughts??
 
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