Construction Begins on Denver’s Belleview Station Housing

Two new apartment towers are set to transform the skyline near the Denver Tech Center district.

Construction has begun on the Belleview Station development site set to house twin 21-story and 22-story apartment buildings, the Denver Business Journal reported. The towers will add 634 residential units to the property, according to plans submitted to the city.

The towers will be built in phases, and ground has broken on the 22-story tower with construction expected to take years, Trey Warren, vice president of Belleview Station, told the Business Journal. The 22-story building will include 320 apartments and a rooftop pool. The second 21-story tower will include an approximately 11,000-square-foot market, 314 apartment units, a hot tub and an outdoor kitchen.

The two residential buildings will be connected by a parking garage. The top of the parking facility will have outdoor amenities like a sports court and dog run that residents of the towers will share, Warren said.

In total, the mixed-use project from Belleview Station master developer Brooke Maloy spans 52 acres and currently has 804,000 square feet of office space, nearly 130,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space and 928 residential units. When completed, the new neighborhood is expected to include about 2.8 million square feet of office space, approximately 185,000 square feet of retail and restaurants and 3,300 residential units, Maloy told the Business Journal.

The final office footprint could change between now and project completion as demand for office space remains up in the air.

“There appears to be a small amount of demand now for some very boutique office [space], but you know, we’re playing the long game,” Warren told the Business Journal. “I don’t know how long it’s going to take office to recover, but if it’s three or four or five years, we can wait that long. And if it’s not, we’ll have to make changes and do more residential units and less office, but for now, we’re focused on trying to achieve that [2.8-million-square-foot] number.”

Belleview Station is expected to be completed over the next two decades.

— Chris Malone Méndez