Metropolitan Gardens is a Transit Oriented Development located at the former site of the Gates Rubber Factory near I-25 and Broadway in Denver. This mixed use urban environment contains a mixture of retail, restaurant, residential and entertainment venues.
4240 Architecture designed six blocks of buildings in the development. The first buildings studied are buildings B and D. Building D is a twelve story building located in the middle of the site adjacent to Vanderbilt Park East. It contains 160 upscale condos over 35,000 sf of ground level retail and restaurant. Building B is an 11 story building located at the West end of the pedestrian bridge connection to the light-rail transit station. It contains 127 entry level loft units over two floors and 43,000 sf of retail.
This Urban Infill development was accepted into the LEED-ND (Neighborhood Development) pilot program due to sustainable design elements including: connectivity to street grid, transit orientation rather than auto dependent, status as a brownfield redevelopment (commitment to environmental clean-up), and its intent to re-use historic structures. Additionally, the project included: below-grade structured parking (which reduces Heat Island Effect, and surface treatment of storm water run-off. As a dense, pedestrian-friendly, compact Mixed-Use development, it is also valued for the quantity and diversity of associated jobs.