Gold Hard Hat Award

Outstanding Mixed-Use Project

Taylor Kohrs utilized post-tension concrete technology to build the seven-story Lincoln Terrace mixed-use building in the heart of a bustling Denver corridor.
The project consists of ground-floor retail space, structured parking topped with two levels of additional parking and four floors of affordable housing, including a community lounge.

With 75 affordable apartments, Lincoln Terrace provides sensible residences for urban dwellers at 6th and Lincoln avenues. The project is on a public transportation route and within walking distance of bike trails, restaurants, major employment centers and cultural exhibits such as the galleries of the Santa Fe Arts District.

Cost-saving and environmentally friendly benefits like exposed piping and concrete columns were incorporated into the construction, including recycled drill casings used in “engineered screwpiles” to form the foundations.  This method reduced the number of caissons, unneeded concrete and waste.

In addition to being recycled materials, engineered screwpiles allowed the project team to pierce a 110-year-old landfill and build directly on bedrock without major excavation and soil preparation. The process saved the client a significant amount of time and money. Modern construction techniques like this one have proven to be two times faster than drilled piers/caissons, spread footings and driven piles.

In fact, it took only about 2.5 minutes per screwpile to put a 40-ft segment in the ground. It’s a viable solution for Colorado’s expansive clay soils because it safeguards the building from poor soil conditions and works in virtually any weather so that construction delays are minimized.

Lincoln Terrace
Denver

Silver Hard Hat Award

Outstanding Mixed-Use Project

A nationally recognized developer, an award-winning architect and one of the largest contractors in the nation converged to form the SugarCube Team. The new mixed-use building is located in the heart of Denver’s Lower Downtown neighborhood, near Market Street Station. The project features a mix of contemporary architecture with classic colors and textures to blend with its historic surroundings.

The 10-story, 195,405-sq-ft building includes three levels of underground parking. The first floor consists of retail, floors two through four are office space, and floors five through 10 offer high-end residential rentals.

The building’s exterior is covered with brick and a unique curtain-wall window system to create a contemporary structure that effectively merges with the established LoDo neighborhood.

SugarCube’s unique window system allows the windows to protrude from the building’s façade. While this supports the contemporary design of the structure, it created challenges for waterproofing, since there was no established precedence for this type of system. The team had to be diligent in its quality control—using 3D modeling, working with the architect and the owner’s moisture consultant, along with the use of mock-ups for testing—to ensure total waterproofing.

The footprint for the new building occupies the entire site, leaving a small staging area. To remedy this, a two-level laydown area was constructed, along with the meticulous management of materials delivery and onsite storage.

Maintaining neighborhood relations was important because of the high-profile location. Neighborhood meetings kept everyone informed as the project progressed. The project team’s support of neighborhood functions included shifting construction to accommodate local businesses and assigning a person to monitor the alley during closures to facilitate access for residents.

SugarCube
Denver

Bronze Hard Hat Award

Outstanding Mixed-Use Project

8001 Arista Place is the first commercial building along Arista Place, Broomfield’s new transit-oriented development. The building houses more than 20,000 sq ft of ground-floor retail/restaurant space and 87,000 sq ft of office space.

The concept was to create a building that emulates a major downtown environment developed over time. The building is broken down through rhythm and massing to appear as a collection of close-knit but separate buildings yet function as a single unit.

Arista Place is the mixed-use core at the heart of Arista, a 210-acre gateway development under way along U.S. Highway 36. The core features live/work, office, retail, restaurant, hotel and residential space. Punctuating the east end of Village Street is a one-acre green space featuring a choreographed fountain surrounded by the TOD buildings.

A pedestrian bridge will connect the project with the east side of the highway. Bus transit access will be provided by a bypass that minimizes large-vehicle traffic on the village main street, providing a safe, welcoming environment for pedestrians.

The buildings on Arista Place are of varying composition and massing—solid versus transparent, horizontal versus vertical. Each building is interrelated to the others from block to block and shares a fine-scaled architectural language, a sense of crossover without literally composing the buildings in the same way. The “domestic modern” design creates a pedestrian orientation of large buildings in a vibrant, human-scaled experience.

With 8001 Arista Place complete and 100% leased, work has begun on the next block of Arista Place. Overall, the project has been credited with helping to spark the resurgence of the Boulder corridor.

8001 Arista Place
Broomfield

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