The extended-stay hotel has been constructed within theframework of the landmark A.B. Hirschfeld Press Building, anundertaking that has spiked project costs by several hundreds ofthousands of dollars, says Walter Isenberg, Sage executive vicepresident and COO. He says the extra six-digit investment has beenworth it to salvage a piece of Denver's history while holding ontosuch a unique property, situated at the edge of the CBD at 685Speer Blvd.

The site once served as Denver's first baseball field, home tothe original Denver Bears until 1922. The press building wasconstructed in 1947. Denver-based Barry Hirschfeld is a limitedpartner in the project.

"No, we didn't have to save a piece of the Hirschfeld building,"Isenberg tells GlobeSt.com. "It hadn't been given historicdesignation. But that building, and its whimsical tribute tobaseball, are a part of Denver history. We didn't want to see itdisappear. So we figured out a way to keep a wonderful old storyalive in a new structure."