The $140 million Lincoln Park One mixed-use development in downtown Denver will feature 186 luxury residential units, including 38 penthouses, rising above street-level retail and enclosed parking. The building was designed to step back as it goes up to reduce the scale and allow more access to outdoor spaces. Rendering courtesy of Buchanan Yonushewski Group

BYG Launches Lincoln Park One

Denver's Buchanan Yonushewski Group launched the most ambitious project in the design-build firm's 15-year history with its late-August unveiling of the 31-story Lincoln Park One mixed-use development in downtown Denver.

The luxury high-rise project - valued at $80 to 90 million in construction cost, with a total cost closer to $140 million - will feature 186 luxury residential units, including 38 penthouses, rising above street-level retail and enclosed parking.

Lincoln Park One will also be one of the city's biggest transit-oriented developments so far. It will be located at the triangular intersection of Welton, 20th and Lincoln on the east side of owntown, directly across the street from the 20th Street light rail station.

The project developer is Erik Osborn of Osborn Development Corp., developers of the Diamond Lofts in the Ballpark neighborhood.

BYG is serving as both design architect and design-builder. James Rendon, senior project architect; and Mark Young, project architect; are leading the project. Denver's Swinerton Builders will construct the core-and-shell; BYG will handle the interior finish work.

Construction will begin early next year. With a 24-month construction schedule, the building should be complete in the first quarter of 2008.

FCI Named CM/GC for School District Projects

FCI Constructors's Grand Junction office began work this summer as the general contractor on two projects totaling just under $25 million for Mesa County Valley District 51.en-US10/01/2005FCI Named CM/GC for School District ProjectsFCI Constructors' Grand Junction office began work this summer as the general contractor on two projects totaling just under $25 million for Mesa County Valley District 51. 

Bookcliff Middle School is an 111,945-sq-ft replacement school with the addition of a secondary gymnasium for shared use between the district and the city of Grand Junction. Fruita 8-9 Middle School is a 100,425-sq-ft facility with similar design to that of Bookcliff, being built next to Fruita High School. 

Both schools feature pipe pile foundations, structural CMU, steel frames and masonry veneers. The architect for both is Anderson Mason Dale of Denver.

Intrawest Breaks Ground on Townhome Project

Groundbreaking for the final phase of Settlers Creek, one of the newest townhome neighborhoods in Keystone, was held in August.

Upon completion, the Intrawest Placemaking project will include 24 residences in six buildings. The townhomes will be surrounded by wilderness, providing solitude at a convenient distance from the amenities and activities of the Keystone Resort.

Slifer Smith & Frampton is the listing broker.

Hyder Begins work on Frisco Elementary

Hyder Construction Inc. began work on a $2.6 million addition and remodel to Frisco Elementary School in Summit County. TAB Associates Inc. is the project architect.en-US10/01/2005Hyder Begins Work on Frisco ElementaryHyder Construction Inc. began work on a $2.6 million addition and remodel to Frisco Elementary School in Summit County. TAB Associates Inc. is the project architect.

The 25,000-sq-ft project includes four new classrooms, the reconfiguration of existing classrooms, electrical and mechanical upgrades and many finishing updates. One of the project's main challenges is the compressed schedule, with all construction targeted for completion while school is out for the summer.

This is Hyder's first project for the Summit County School District RE-1. Frisco Elementary serves 200 students from preschool to 5th grade.

Lakewood's Belmar Gets Granite Sphereen

Belmar Is on the BallLakewood's Belmar Gets Granite Sphere

J.E. Dunn Construction and Belmar developer Continuum Partners celebrated a significant milestone this summer with the setting of a six-ft diameter, 22,000-lb polished black granite sphere in Belmar, Lakewood's new downtown.

The sphere, situated in Belmar's outdoor plaza and one of only five in the country of this scale, serves as a focal point of the 19-block development. The massive structure - fabricated in China and manufactured by Waterfountains.com Inc. - is set above a 12,600-lb granite base and supported by only 20 psi of water pressure, rendering it nearly weightless.

The rigging used to hoist the sphere into the container for shipment from China was sent prior to the ball's arrival but could not be certified for use in the United States.

J.E. Dunn worked with Denver Wire Rope to design a new rigging system for placement of the sphere, with only half-an-inch to spare between the rigging around the sphere and the top of the base.

Ground Broken on Landmark CSM Building

Work Begins on Landmark CSM Facility Ground Broken on Landmark CSM Building.

The Colorado School of Mines broke ground this summer on its new 96,000-sq-ft, $19.7 million student recreation center - the largest project ever built at the Golden campus.

Pinkard Construction Co. of Lakewood is the construction manager/general contractor for the facility, designed by Sink Combs Dethlefs Architects. The project - designed and built on an accelerated, fast-track, multiple-bid package basis - marks the seventh time the two companies have worked together on a recreation center.

The student recreation center will have a 2,500-seat competition gymnasium, a recreational gymnasium, an aquatics center with a 25-meter swimming pool and diving area, an indoor jogging track, climbing wall and a cardiovascular and strength conditioning room.

Final construction completion and occupancy is scheduled for January 2007.

Denver Architects Renovate Pueblo Neurotrauma ICU

H+L Architecture completed the renovation of Parkview Medical Center’s Neurotrauma Intensive Care Unit in Pueblo.

The $2 million renovation more than doubled southern Colorado’s only dedicated Neurotrauma ICU, expanding it from 4,000 sq ft to 9,800 sq ft. With input from physicians, nurses, former patients and their families, the design team created a larger, more patient- and family friendly environment.

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