65 S Colorado Boulevard
A new proposal has appeared for the unimproved lot at 65 S Colorado Blvd. In October 2025, it changed hands for $3,150,000, and now the plan for the site is finally taking shape: a five‑story, 40,000 square foot office building stepping up from a cleaned‑up streetscape, backed by a structured parking setup with 49 stalls tucked partly underground and partly at grade.
The building itself isn’t meant to be flashy. It’s designed to meet the G‑RO‑5 zoning rules—65 feet max height, required step‑backs, transparency along the street, and the detached sidewalks and tree lawns Cherry Creek East has fought to preserve. The site plan adds a public‑access easement on Colorado Boulevard, cleans up the tight sidewalk pinch points that have frustrated pedestrians for years, and relocates utilities to get everything into a more defensible, modern layout. Beneath it all is the below‑grade parking, a ground‑floor lobby facing the street, and the office mass rising above it.
This parcel is part of the Bayaud Gateway, one of two gateway redevelopment areas assembled along Colorado Boulevard to fix the corridor’s long‑standing issues. Deep parkway setbacks, narrow attached sidewalks, no alley access, and leftover high‑speed turn lanes have kept this stretch stuck in a broken pattern. The Cherry Creek Area Plan called it out back in 2012, and after years of little movement, neighborhood negotiations finally locked in rezoning, entitlements, and covenant protections to get something real underway.
The broader plan is a full cleanup of the approaches into Cherry Creek: removing high‑speed turn lanes, adding gateway markers, lifting new raised medians, expanding detached sidewalks, installing curb bulb‑outs at Harrison, and stitching bike connections out toward Burns Park. These aren’t cosmetic upgrades—they’re meant to slow drivers, make crossings survivable, and give the corridor a consistent public realm instead of its current patchwork of mismatched conditions.
In the end, the significance of the project isn’t just its square footage. It marks a shift from stalled plans and underused land to real construction activity on the Bayaud frontage. With DEG Real Estate pushing the development and OZ Architecture shaping the design, the long‑discussed gateway concept could finally become tangible. If the rest of the assembled parcels follow suit, this corner, one of the most visibly neglected approaches into Cherry Creek, will evolve into a cleaner, safer, and more coherent front door to the neighborhood.