On your right, look for the tall, rounded-corner tower with shiny blue glass and pale horizontal bands, rising like a giant, polished filing cabinet against the sky.
This is 1125 17th Street, a 25-story, 363-foot office tower that popped onto Denver’s skyline in 1980. It was designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill... the architectural equivalent of a hit-making band that somehow always gets radio play. The building’s had a whole identity journey, too. First it wore the Amoco badge, back when Standard Oil leased a big chunk of space here and the energy biz felt like it would power everything forever. Later it became Bank One Tower, then Chase Tower after the JPMorgan Chase and Bank One merger-because nothing says “new era” like another new sign. These days, it goes by the simplest name possible: its address. In 2017, it even changed hands multiple times, like a very expensive game of hot potato.
When you’re set, 17th Street Plaza is a 2-minute walk heading northwest.
