Downtown Denver Office-To-Residential Conversion Activity Heating Up With $56M Boost

Barchart·12/22/2025 03:04:18

Denver’s office-to-residential conversion pipeline is among the most active in the country, setting up the city's downtown for a needed reduction in vacant office space while bumping up the number of housing units in a tight market. The projects are being helped along by funding from the Downtown Denver Development Authority, which seeks to revitalize the central business district nearly six years after the pandemic struck, turning the office market in Denver and elsewhere on its head. “We've really got to find a way to get new housing downtown and to make it financially feasible to turn these unused, vacant office spaces...