active in the urban planning community in Denver.

For the past twelve years, DenverInfill has been tracking development in and around downtown Denver. There has been plenty to follow. The surface parking lots, which spanned multiple city blocks in the 1970s, have slowly but surely been turned into apartments, offices, hotels, and other structures which have worked to reunite the urban fabric that comprises Downtown Denver. In some of the neighborhoods surrounding Downtown, new development is taking on a slightly different form.

Capitol Hill was not spared from the razing which occurred throughout the mid-1900s, but for the most part, it was limited to the northwest corner of the neighborhood around the Colorado State Capitol and along Broadway. Small parking lots exist throughout the neighborhood, but these aren’t large enoughaffect these developments. This is the case with two small adaptive reuse projects presently being constructed in Capitol Hill.

The Jux
Empty for several years, 821 Corona was previously an antique shop in an old two-floor mixed-use structure from the early 1900s. Last year, under the direction of Endurance Partners, the building was gutted, save for the original brickwork on three sides. Next month, it will open as a 30-unit apartment building on three floors with a ground level parking garage. Called The Jux, the structure preserves some of the look and feel of the neighborhood while adding density to the area. It is expected to be completed in June 2017.

At one point in the past, Chevron Gasoline clearly had something to do with this building as this beautiful brickwork