Work could begin later this year on one of the largest mixed-use developments in recent Denver history.
As proposed by the company East West Partners, what is being called Cherry Creek West is expected to cost well over $1 billion to build.
Everything about the project, which will run from the Cherry Creek waterway to 1st Avenue, is big, and that includes up to 750,000 square feet of office space, and some 90,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space.
Central to the project: the building of 600 residential units.
The project has gone through some alterations since originally proposed last year and that includes the configuration of landscape space and pedestrian and vehicular access points.
Uniquely, as noted by the Denver Post, the project will also see the construction of what is being called a “landscape bridge,” that will be built “over a portion of Cherry Creek North Drive, providing easy pedestrian access to the creek from which the neighborhood derives its name.”
Seven buildings will comprise construction at the site, varying in height from 8 floors to 13 floors.
As designed by the Denver-based architectural firm Gensler, the project places an emphasis on green and community space, essentially building a village within a city.
East West Partners has offices in Denver and Avon. The company describes itself as a developer of “top resort and urban communities, hotels and office buildings.”
Among the company’s more notable projects is the Riverfront Park master planned neighborhood overlooking Commons Park and the South Platte River, as well as the development of the massive Union Station neighborhood, which includes residential, office, and retail space.
The Cherry Creek West project will altogether see the transformation of some 13 acres of parking lots.
By Garry Boulard
