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/ Lincoln Towers Promises to Transform Colorado Center /
& Buster’s restaurant. Precast concrete will
start being added around the core struc-
tures in late fall.
Deliveries also will be a challenge to such
a busy site, with theater patrons and visitors
to Dave & Buster’s coming and going late into
the night.
The office tower construction will be less
complicated than the second phase, Snelling
said. By the time the retail Main Street and res-
idential phase get underway, access will be even
more limited and more will be going on at the
site. Complicated site logistics and planning is
familiar work to JE Dunn Construction, he noted,
which has completed several projects in tight ur-
ban settings, such as the Spire, the city of Denver’s
Crime Lab and, most recently, the new Balfour Lux-
ury Senior Residences.
To complete the residential build-out, “We have
to get the parking garages open for retail and office
tenants, so we can take the rest of the surface parking
lot,” Snelling said.
“We began work in June on the 200,000-square-foot,
precast concrete office tower,” said McCarthy. It will
include 15 stories of Class A office space, and 20,000
square feet of retail and service space. Six stories of
above-grade garage space will provide parking for 400
vehicles.
Retail, residential, office and entertainment options
will be arrayed along an inviting central Main Street, with
both downtown Denver and the Denver Tech Center 20
minutes away by light rail.
The office tower will be crowned with a rooftop terrace,
available for tenants’ use, with railing-to-railing views of
the Front Range and downtown Denver.
Completion of the 16-month project is expected in time for
the 2016 holidays.
The second phase of the project includes a 17-story,
280,600-square-foot residential tower. Its 259 for-rent apart-
ments with full amenities include 294 covered parking spaces,
two fitness centers, podium-level pool, resident lounge, out-
door terrace and a bike repair shop with storage, an element of
the apartment tower’s LEED Silver requirement. Another 45,000
square feet of retail and service space completes the residential
tower.
This summer’s groundbreaking is the latest step in a long col-
laboration, McCarthy said. Our firm was awarded the Lincoln Tow-
ers project more than seven years ago, only to see it placed on
hold during the real estate downturn. With the metro Denver real
estate market hopping, owners Lincoln Properties and ASB Real
Estate Investments have moved forward.
The first office tower at Colorado Center dates back to 1987, with
the entertainment complex and additional office space opening
in 1999.
Our West Region headquarters has been at Colorado Center for
the last decade. Co-workers know firsthand how convenient the
location is. “We’re able to jump on the light rail, get to downtown
in 20 to 25 minutes, and not have to worry about parking or traffic,”
McCarthy said. “Or we can go the other way, to the Denver Tech
Center, very easily.”
The office tower design by Tryba Architects of Denver is LEED
Silver, featuring high-efficiency glass and mechanical systems.
The project will be completed with 100 percent union labor, Mc-
Carthy said, with JE Dunn self-performing concrete work on site.
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PROJECT TEAM
DEVELOPER:
Lincoln Property Co. and ASB Real Estate Investments
GENERAL CONTRACTOR:
JE Dunn Construction
ARCHITECT:
Tryba Architects
SUBCONTRACTORS:
Metropolitan Glass,
Rocky Mountain Priestess,
Dinah Electric and U.S. Engineering
