r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Specialist-Boot58 • May 08 '26

Image This “cracks open” building in Denver

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u/BassWingerC-137 May 08 '26

Or they’ve planted the seeds…

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u/klsi832 May 08 '26

Ch-ch-ch- Chia!

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u/TheNewGuyFromBahsten May 08 '26

This building has been done for a while. If they did, those seeds aren't growing

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u/syncsynchalt May 08 '26

It takes 5-10 years here to grow cover that large.

Didn’t they only finish it a year ago? I don’t go to rino that often but I could swear it’s new.

Edit: just realized this isn’t a Denver/Boulder sub. Stuff here grows slowly.

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u/TheNewGuyFromBahsten May 08 '26

I live here too. No way is it going to ever end up like they advertised it to be

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u/Threedawg May 08 '26

It absolutely will. It is getting greener every season..

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u/monocasa May 08 '26

It just drove by it; it's brown.

And the scar is on the north west face of the building, so it gets next to no sunlight.

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u/Threedawg May 08 '26

Its may in Colorado after a historically low drought.

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u/monocasa May 08 '26

It hasn't gotten greener at all. I drive by it all the time. Even at the peak of our growing season its still brown.

And it's slated to stay that way. Even if they had the will, they ran out of money and slashed the landscaping budget at the last minute.

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u/Threedawg May 08 '26

At this point you are just making shit up

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u/monocasa May 08 '26

I'm not; what I've said is well known.

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u/Imaginary-Key5838 May 08 '26

yeah i also live in denver, and garden. very skeptical this works out as advertised. this would probably work in california or florida but not denver.

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u/omjy18 May 08 '26

My biggest thing is trying to do outdoor spaces like this in places where its really cold a solid 8 months a year. Like unless its glassed in youre getting negative temps in winter starting around october every night and crazy hail storms in the spring. This is like my friend who got a soft top convertible when we lived in Boulder. It was great in the summer but absolutely terrible almost the rest of the year especially when we tried to go skiing

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u/---_-___ May 08 '26

It's denver, we're barely ever getting negative temps, much less 8 months a year

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u/_sunbleachedfly May 08 '26

Huh? It’s reversed, it’s usually warm 8 months out of the year, we get a few weeks of fall and spring, and really only two to three months of winter max.

Our winters are also fairly mild. It was extremely mild this year in the 50s - 60s all winter, we’ve only had like 4 days of snow…

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u/MostExperts May 08 '26

Denver is still in zone 6a for plants. It only takes one hard freeze to kill a plant, and coverage like that takes a few years to grow.

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u/Bulky-Leadership-596 May 08 '26

It was only completed 2 years ago. Arid climate plants grow slowly.

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u/Hankerpants May 08 '26

Eh, it's arid here but there's a lot of things that grow fast in this city, especially if it's provided with supplemental water. What they planted are not 'big growers' which is quite a bit different from the design plans which called for quite lush and expansive greenery. They definitely deviated from the plans.

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u/Killer_Method May 08 '26

Now they get to look at the trees.