On your right, look for the tall, clean-edged tower with a pale top and a big grid of dark, reflective windows that mirrors the sky like a giant office-grade sunglasses lens.
This is 17th Street Plaza, a 33-story, 438-foot slice of early-1980s confidence, finished in 1982 when Denver was leaning hard into “modern skyline” energy. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill helped shape it, along with Wendel Duchsherer Architects, and the whole thing clocks in at about 695,000 square feet... which is a whole lot of carpet tiles and conference calls.
Even the business story feels like an office thriller: in 2009 it sold from J.P. Morgan to HRPT Properties Trust for about $135 million back then, roughly $200 million in today’s money, and it was 93 percent leased. Tenants ranged from Molson Coors to KPMG to the Japanese Consulate... so yes, diplomacy happened in this glass box. In 2019, Plant Holdings North America bought it, keeping the tower’s quiet hum of deal-making alive.
When you’re set, Daniels & Fisher Tower is a 5-minute walk heading southeast.
