Infill land at the seam of Highland, Jefferson Park, and LoHi rarely trades. A half-acre, corner-positioned, mixed-use site — entitled at C-MX-5 with a credible path to higher density — is rarer still.
BLURIVER Real Estate is pleased to present Cardinal Point, a private off-market opportunity at the southeast corner of West 26th Avenue and Bryant Street. This is one of the last assemblable, full-corner development sites of meaningful scale in Denver's most coveted neighborhood quadrant — three minutes to downtown, two to LoHi, and stepping distance from Jefferson Park itself.
The opportunity is being offered exclusively to a short list of developers and capital partners who understand the long-arc value of well-positioned infill: groups for whom land basis, walkability, sightlines, and adjacency to the city's next great redevelopment — the future of the Empower Field campus — are the variables that actually matter.
The property is presently improved with ten income-producing multifamily units, providing meaningful carry while ownership, entitlements, and design are advanced. The southerly parcel offers a clear path to assemblage, expanding the development footprint to a scale that justifies a flagship project — luxury multifamily, mixed-use, condominium, or hospitality.
Cardinal Point occupies a hard-corner position at the intersection of two of Northwest Denver's most identifiable streets — immediately adjacent to the Skyline at Highlands community and a short walk to the Highland Bridge, LoHi's restaurant cluster, and the Platte River corridor.
The site delivers what infill developers value most: a clean, zero-setback envelope on a corner lot with strong frontage on both 26th Avenue and Bryant Street, in-place residential income to absorb predevelopment, and a credible thesis for meaningful height upside via Denver's affordable-housing bonus on top of the as-of-right envelope.
The southerly parcel — approximately 8,200 SF — is available for assemblage, positioning a successor owner to develop a contiguous ~29,000 SF flagship project at the gateway of the neighborhood.
Walking distance to Linger, El Five, Avanti Food Hall, Root Down, Little Man Ice Cream, Bar Dough, and the entire LoHi rooftop cluster — consistently ranked among Denver's strongest dining corridors.
Direct access to I-25 and Speer Boulevard; pedestrian connection over I-25 via the Highland Bridge into LoDo and Union Station; ten minutes to DIA via I-70 and the Platte River trail network.
Empower Field at Mile High, Ball Arena, the Downtown Aquarium, Elitch Gardens redevelopment, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and the Platte River trail network — all within one mile.
One of the few quarter-section sites in Denver where four cultural districts converge — Highland, Jefferson Park, LoHi, and the rapidly evolving stadium / riverfront corridor — in a single corner.
C-MX-5 by right, with a credible path to ~7 stories through Denver's affordable-housing incentive.
Denver's C-MX-5 designation permits up to 5 stories (~70 ft) with zero setbacks, build-to requirements, transparency at the ground floor, and a wide envelope of residential, commercial, retail, and live-work uses — encouraging walkable, transit-oriented density.
Denver's Affordable Housing Incentive Program allows up to two additional stories in C-MX-5 zones in exchange for a specified affordable-housing component aligned with Denver AMI thresholds — a credible path to ~7 stories on top of the as-of-right envelope.
C-MX-5 supports a broad palette of uses — multifamily, condominium, hospitality, office, retail, and live-work — with build-to street frontage requirements, ground-floor transparency standards, and a walkable, transit-oriented design vocabulary. Combined with zero setbacks and a corner lot, the site delivers an unusually clean and efficient buildable area for a flagship project.
One of Denver's most established and most desirable neighborhoods, Highland blends historic Victorian housing stock with new construction townhomes, boutique retail along 32nd and Tennyson, and direct sightlines to the downtown skyline. Median home prices ≈ $820K.
A tree-lined enclave with character blocks, the eponymous park, and an unusually direct relationship to Empower Field, Elitch Gardens, the Downtown Aquarium, and the future stadium-district redevelopment. Increasingly the locus of new infill multifamily.
Lower Highlands — directly across the Highland Bridge from LoDo — anchors Denver's strongest rooftop and chef-driven restaurant cluster. Walk Score ≈ 96. One-bedroom rents averaging ≈ $2,073 / mo. The city's premier urban-residential brand.
| Metric | 1 Mile | 2 Mile | 3 Mile |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 Population | 20,973 | 78,369 | 180,418 |
| 2024 Population | 31,974 | 114,838 | 233,715 |
| 2029 Projected | 33,181 | 129,355 | 261,450 |
| 2024 Households | 18,438 | 60,340 | 120,351 |
| HH Growth ’24–’29 | +3.80% | +11.85% | +12.30% |
| HH Earning $100K+ | 11,178 | 32,808 | 57,677 |
| Average HH Size | 1.72 | 1.83 | 1.88 |
Five tailwinds converging on a single quarter-section of the city.
The Broncos' new ~$4B stadium is moving to Burnham Yard, opening 2031. The current ~80-acre Empower Field campus reverts to city ownership and is expected to be replanned as a major new mixed-use district — directly adjacent to Cardinal Point.
The Elitch Gardens amusement-park site — ~62 acres immediately across I-25 — has been planned for a multi-billion dollar mixed-use redevelopment ("The River Mile"). Cardinal Point sits squarely between Highland and that emerging riverfront district.
C-MX-5 by right, with a credible path to ~7 stories via Denver's Affordable Housing Incentive Program — meaningful density upside on a clean, mixed-use envelope.
Highland and LoHi are among Denver's most amenity-rich and most fully built-out submarkets. Corner sites of this scale rarely come to market, and almost never to private off-market processes.
Ten in-place multifamily units provide cash flow to absorb predevelopment, entitlements, and design — a luxury rarely available on raw infill sites.
Five independent tailwinds — public-sector reinvestment, private-sector redevelopment, entitlement upside, scarcity, and carry — rarely line up on a single corner. They line up here.
Four reasons Cardinal Point belongs on a short list of flagship infill plays.
Hard-corner, half-acre, zero-setback infill sites in Highland are functionally unrepeatable. Replacement basis only goes one direction.
5 stories by right, with a path to ~7 stories via Denver's affordable-housing incentive. A flexible mixed-use envelope on a hard corner with zero setbacks.
Median 1-mile income $126,812, average $181,762, with double-digit projected growth across the 2 and 3-mile rings — a renter and condo demo that supports premium product.
Empower Field replan, Elitch Gardens / River Mile redevelopment, Highland Bridge, LoHi rooftop cluster, Platte River trails — Cardinal Point sits at the seam of all of them.
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