Located directly across the street from the Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre in Centennial, Colorado, The Rider is a 9-story, 535,000-square-foot apartment community built above subterranean parking. Five stories of Type IIIA wood-frame construction are set over four stories of Type IA post-tensioned concrete slabs, supported by concrete columns and shear walls — a hybrid structural system that combines the efficiency of wood framing with the strength needed to carry the building's parking podium below. Retail and restaurant space anchors the ground floor, activating the streetscape for residents and neighbors alike.
Originally envisioned as an office building, The Rider was reimagined as a residential community in response to the market's shifting need for housing over office space in this corner of the Denver metro. Developed by Schnitzer West, the project utilizes DCI’s structural and civil engineering experts. Our civil team designed more than 30,000 cubic yards of earthwork and the site's public utility infrastructure — including drainage and hydraulic systems, water and sewer plans, a new CDOT Type R catch basin, an extended detention basin, and a concrete spillway — and worked closely with the architect and the cities of Centennial and Greenwood Village, along with SEMSWA, to secure administrative site plan approval.
One of my favorite mottos that I learned from another leader was, 'Say what you are going to do, and do what you are going to say.' I always try to work with this in mind."
