When urban pioneer Dana Crawford and other developers began transforming Lower Downtown into a hip urban scene in the 1960s, they had old shop fronts and warehouses to work with.

By the time Coors Field arrived in LoDo in 1995, most of that historic stock had already been turned into lofts, leaving the neighborhood ready for a sleek, new “loft” look that would be a sharp contrast to the genuine originals.

East West Partners remade the old cityscape west of Union Station into that vision, crossing the rail tracks into Riverfront, where 23-story Glass House opened in 2007 — its highly transparent units literally flying off the shelf.

People can see one of those on Sunday — in a year that’s a very different market.

“There’s a lot of inventory around, but things are still selling,” said Coldwell Banker agent Chriss Bond, who has already done around $16 million in transactions this year, at a moment when all across the country, many more homes have come on the market, while buyers are acting cautiously.

That’s a little less true at the market’s more affordable end; but sellers are still trying to hold fast to what they were seeing neighbors’ homes going for in the midst of the pandemic, keeping prices higher than buyers fancy paying.

According to the Colorado Association of Realtors, the median priced condo is now $420,000 — actually a few bucks more than the median price one year ago.

9-minute walk from Union Station

But prices are coming down, including on this 800-square-foot unit in Glass House, repriced from when it came on the market in March. Now, it’s $459,000.

That’s for a condo that is a 15-minute walk from Coors Field, nine minutes from the 25 restaurants open around Union Station, and just up the street from Riverfront’s own Hello Darling coffee shop beside Commons Park and the Millennium Bridge — typifying the walkability that was a big lure in LoDo when the Rockies arrived.

Many of those attractions around Union Station were just a promise when Glass House’s twin towers began pre-selling in 2005 at around $330-per-square-foot. (When the station was remodeled in 2012, East West did much of the new-urban makeover of its surroundings.)

Concrete ceiling

This is a fifth-floor single-bedroom, single-bath unit with a walk-in closet. Aside from the prominent glass that created some of the sensation when Glass House opened, a balcony looks west down Bassett Street, across Commons Park to a mountain view. There are wood floors, bare concrete pillars and a high ceiling in raw concrete, seen in many faux-loft condos — a kind of salute to the older warehouses that had been part of LoDo’s first-phase.

Packaged in with the home are a single parking space in the covered garage, and amenities that include a fitness center, a pool deck, common entertaining areas, and a porte-cochère entry area with a 24-hour concierge. The monthly fee for this one bedroom, according to Bond, is $557.

Bond said this unit is “lightly-lived-in” — sellers who are from out-of-state and who have used this as a pied-à-terre for themselves and their children. She noted that Glass House, 1700 Bassett St., has just eight single-bedrooms on the market now. She’ll meet people in the lobby for a tour.