Recent Multifamily Housing News
Rogers Road Townhomes
BAS1S has been providing pro bono architectural services to Habitat for Humanity for over two decades, in Estes Park and on the Front Range. This project was an opportunity to provide nine new homeowners with their first home. The site is located just east of downtown, along a 3rd Avenue corridor envisioned to undergo significant [...]Read More >
RMC Workforce Apartments
Rocky Mountain Conservancy (RMC) is the non-profit partner of Rocky Mountain National Park, more typically associated with land donation, trail improvement, education and stewardship. A land donation not contiguous but close to RMNP led to an exploration of the feasibility of providing much needed housing for people associated with RMC’s mission. While a large property, [...]Read More >
Dreamview Resort
The property is a narrow, steep lot set between two existing resorts along Fall River in Estes Park. The owners of the adjacent resort to the west looked to expand their unit mix into larger three-bedroom units that would compete strongly with the vacation home market. Warm Simplicity Each unit is equipped with full kitchen, [...]Read More >
Martin Street Apartments
Initially envisioned as a complete redevelopment of a lot with a few near derelict structures, the project team found a way to provide for six new attainably priced townhomes to be constructed on the narrow lot, while also retaining the existing primary single-family home. Further investigation by the client led to the discovery that the [...]Read More >
1886 Hover
Affordable Private Sector Housing The BAS1S team has been a long-term advocate for affordable housing of various types. From providing pro-bono work for local chapters of Habitat for Humanity to working with Housing Authorities, to advocating through volunteer work and weighing in on public policy, we believe communities are stronger by having housing availability for [...]Read More >
Peak View Apartments
Like many other mountain towns across Colorado and the west, Estes Park is suffering from an extreme lack of housing attainable to multiple income levels working in the valley. Very few units had been built over the last decade - a recent study estimated a need for up to 1,500 new housing units. In 2016 [...]Read More >
Alarado Development
On a long-vacant parcel at the eastern edge of downtown Estes Park, the Alarado development addresses a number of community needs. The majority of the main level houses a new Urgent Care Facility - a wing of the local hospital Estes Park Medical Center. the Urgent Care expands services available to residents and visitors alike [...]Read More >
Wildfire
We have long advocated for affordable and workforce housing in communities. Mountain resort communities are especially susceptible to housing inequality as wealthier people move and retire to these enchanted communities. When the builders and developers approached us about designing a community of workforce housing, townhomes and single family homes we jumped at the chance to [...]Read More >
Good Samaritan Society
When the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society came to us to help develop their Estes Park facility, we proposed an architectural style loosely coined ‘parkitecture’ based on using western national park buildings as influences. The resulting project is complimentary to its unique mountain resort community and one of the preeminent Good Samaritan Society facilities. The [...]Read More >
RiversPointe
This project presented an opportunity to design an anchor mixed use building on a brownfield site at the West end of downtown. The ground level plan includes four retail units with prime street frontage plus a large space on the Town’s Riverwalk for retail or arts group use. The upper floor consists of nine higher [...]Read More >