Historic Tax Credits

$1.9 Million Federal

Total Development Cost

$14 Million

Project Partner

Alliance for Collective Action

Impact

Sustainability

Warehouse Row
History

Warehouse Row

The Alliance Center, historically known as the Kennicott-Patterson Transfer and Storage Company Building and later as the Otero Building was constructed in 1908 to serve as a warehouse along Wynkoop Street’s “Warehouse Row.” For over half a century, the building served as a warehouse for various Colorado-based companies, including the Tattered Cover Bookstore, a Denver institution, as well as the first official offices of the Wynkoop Brewing Company, owned by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper.

In 2004, the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado (now the Alliance for Collective Action) purchased the building and quickly began transforming it into an environmental nonprofit hub. The vision was to create a physical hub where local public interest groups could pool resources for projects. It would provide an incubator for collaboration, offering traditionally tight-budgeted nonprofits an opportunity to share ideas with like-minded advocacy groups and reduce expenses.

Working for a Greener Future
Revitalization Efforts

Working for a Greener Future

The second major renovation of the Alliance Center effectively gutted the building to replace an aging and inefficient heating and cooling system, enhance the aesthetics, provide a more cohesive and efficient space, and provide an ideal working environment that maximizes the principles of sustainability. Key parts of the rehabilitation include increasing natural light, improving mechanical systems and controls, incorporating urban wind turbines and photo voltaic arrays to generate energy, using only water-efficient bathroom features, installing a heat-island-reducing roof surface, and improving their Energy Star rating. Additionally, the construction efforts allowed the building to be powered solely via electricity.

Over the last two decades, The Alliance has built a network of government, academic, for-profit, nonprofit, media, and community organizations and leaders. The Alliance convenes and mobilizes this network to identify some of the largest problems Coloradans face and move thought into action through community-led solutions. To support their cohort of tenants, the Alliance Center provides over $400,000 in tenant savings via below-market rent and event costs.

The Alliance Center supports more than 160 organizations through tenancy and events each year. The convening groups support environmental-focused advocacy efforts throughout the year and have played roles in directing over $1 billion in state and national stimulus funds to green efforts.

Community Impact

Massive Environmental Impact

For the first year of The Alliance’s ownership, the building underwent significant construction to renovate and upgrade the space, prioritizing eco-friendly green building construction with high-tech concepts. In 2006, The Alliance Center became the second building in the world to earn two US Green Building Council LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certifications.

The Alliance Center has been carbon neutral since 2008 and, according to Energy Star, uses less energy than 92% of its peers. Through a thoughtful waste management approach, the building

diverts 85% of its waste from landfills, recycles over 4,500 pounds of hard-to-recycle materials annually through its “Hard to Recycle Station,” and has saved over 550 megawatts of energy through its renewable energy components.

The building achieved a LEED Gold recertification in 2011 and was the first building in Colorado to obtain Platinum certification in any of LEED’s newest and more stringent v4 categories. The Alliance Center has since achieved dozens of building certifications and awards, including the WELL-Health Safety Rating and seven LEED certifications.

85% of Waste

Diverted from Landfills

4,500 lbs Annually

Hard to Recycle Material Recycled

160+

Organizations Supported Annually

$1 Billion

Helped to Direct

NTCIC & Progress

Economic Impact

The second major renovation of the Alliance Center building was made possible, in part, by NTCIC through an investment in the $1.9 Million federal Historic Tax Credits generated by the project.

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Energy Tax Credits

$43.1 Million

Megawatts

45.845

Fair Market Value

$112.6 Million

Project Partner

United States Solar Corporation

Impact

Sustainability

Affordable Clean Energy Solutions
Project Details

Affordable Clean Energy Solutions

In partnership with the United States Solar Corporation (US Solar), a developer, owner, operator, and financier of solar generation and storage projects with a focus on emerging markets and community solar programsNT Solar provided an equity investment in the $43.1 million in Solar Investment Tax Credits (ITC) generated by the development of the solar sites located across Colorado.

Impacts

Environmental Sustainability

The 45.845 MW installations will generate an estimated 89 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) annually, which:

8,300 Homes Annually

Creates enough electricity to power nearly 8,300 homes each year.

49 Million Pounds of Coal

Offsets CO2 emissions generated from burning nearly 49 million pounds of coal annually.

44,000 Acres of Forest

Sequesters the same amount of carbon from the atmosphere as over 44,000 acres of forest.

5 Million Gallons of Gasoline

Offsets the CO2 emissions generated from 5 million gallons of gasoline annually

About United States Solar

Partnership at Work

United States Solar Corporation (US Solar) was founded in 2014 and focuses on developing and operating distributed solar in key Community Solar markets in Minnesota, Illinois, and Colorado. US Solar has originated over 235 million annual kWhs of community solar subscriptions with nearly 100 commercial/municipality

customers and over 4,000 residential customers. US Solar has over 150 MWs of community solar under construction or in operation. As of December 2023, US Solar has produced 562 million kWh of clean energy.

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