John Rebchook is a former Rocky Mountain News reporter with more than 30 years of experience in writing and communications... Don’t think of the 42-story Spire project nearing completion in downtown Denver as the largest condo high-rise ever built in the city.
Instead, here are some fun ways of looking at the 496-unit tower being constructed by J.E. Dunn and being developed by Randy Nichols of the Nichols Partnership.
It is taking 40,739 cubic yard of concrete,which could fill about 12.5 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
1.716 lineal feet, 322 miles, of post tension cable, enough to span the Golden Gate Bridge 189 times.
2,873 tons of rebar, or 5,746 pounds, equal to the weight of 18 Boeing 777 airplanes.
18,000 gallons of primer and paint, enough to cover 55 downtown Denver city blocks.
1.31 million square feet of drywall, enough to cover 10 downtown Denver city blocks.
1,870 stairs , 10 more steps than to the top of the Empire State Building.
107,000 square feet of tile, which could cover more than six National Hockey League rinks.
34,500 square yards of carpet, enough to cover almost six football fields.
170,000 square feet of wood flooring, enough to cover 38 basketball courts
440,542 pounds of duct work, the equivalent of 161 Toyota Prius’s.
132,723 lineal feet of base boards, enough to stretch from downtown Denver to DIA.
13,787 vertical feet of columns – 55,048 percent taller than the highest point of the Great Wall of China. (The wall is not as tall as you think.)
*265,433 pounds of granite, almost twice the weight of the 3,200-year-old granite statue of Ramses II in Egypt.
97,230 metal studs, enough to cover 97 Elvis jumpsuits.
And finally, 8,800 lineal feet of elevator guide rail, the length of a round trip from my house to the Sunflower Farmer’s Market in West Highland.
High-rise condo opening later this year.
Contact John Rebchook at JRCHOOK@gmail.com or 303-945-6865
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