Gravitas Development Group has broken ground on a five-story office building in Denver’s LoHi neighborhood.
The building will have 17,000 square feet of office space and a 3,900-square-foot restaurant at street level. The project also includes 38 parking spaces -- 24 of them in a garage built into the hillside on the site.
"We want this to be an alternative to LoDo," says Ryan Diggins, a partner at Gravitas. "The parking our site offers is a huge amenity. We’re trying to pull businesses over the bridge and get them to think about Lower Highland not just as restaurants and apartments."
Designed by Yong Cho at
Studio Completiva, the building will be set back from the street to blend in with the Olinger complex that includes restaurants Vita, Lola and Linger.
"The office tenants will be able to look down on Linger's rooftop," Diggins says. "It's going to have a really neat, ultra-dense feel influenced by the architect and his living in very dense parts of the world."
The building is expected to be completed next summer.
"I hope people start to do more office projects," Diggins says. "The neighborhood is kind of at a critical point. The question is, is it going to be all apartments? Or can we keep the identity Lower Highland had in the first place."
Contact Confluence Denver Development News Editor Margaret Jackson with tips and leads for future stories at margaret@confluence-denver.com.
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