The Denver Broncos have opened the NFL’s newest headquarters with 1,219 cubic metres of Quebec black spruce running through it, the timber left exposed from the trophy lobby of the US$175 million Broncos Park Powered by CommonSpirit to the offices on its top floor. That is according to team president Damani Leech, who briefed reporters at the building on Saturday, confirming the Englewood, Colorado complex holds the playing squad and nearly 100 business staff under one roof for the first time.
“What I think is unique about this building is that it is distinctly Colorado,” Leech said, naming the natural wood and the elevated timber ceilings of the third-floor offices as the reason he loves coming to work, in a fit-out that even includes a golf simulator he says he begged for. Players take the ground floor and football operations the level between, so a franchise that ran across two sites now fits at a single address.
Securing the spruce came years before the doors opened, with the club topping out the roof last August in black spruce cross-laminated timber rather than the steel beam convention expects, and the Quebec-grown material hauled 2,100 miles to the site. Vice president of construction Amy Dee credited that pre-tariff purchase with keeping timber price-competitive with steel once Canadian duties took hold.
Counting player steps shaped the design, with HOK measuring rival NFL facilities by the walk between locker room, weight room, and indoor field before drawing a three-storey, 205,000 square foot building across a 58-acre campus. Rockwell Group shared the architecture, Turner Construction ran the build, and the doors opened on 13 July, 683 days after work began on the club’s own count.
“You come here and you see the first-class everywhere,” guard Quinn Meinerz said on reporting day, listing a cafeteria he calls wild, a new nutrition area, and a training room lined with tables, pools, and tubs. Parking has moved underground, and the indoor field, weight room, and locker room all connect without a step outside, ending the snow treks and baking summer walks that came with the old campus.
“It’s been a long time coming,” All-Pro cornerback Pat Surtain II told reporters at the same session, of a locker room the NFL Players Association graded an F in 2025 and Leech puts at four to five times the size of the room it replaces. Demolition of the 1990 building follows the move, retiring the base where three Super Bowl-winning rosters dressed.
It comes as DNVR reporter Zac Stevens took fans inside on 2 August and the club released its own drone fly-through of the finished interior, the first extended looks at floors most of the public will never walk. Lombardi Trophies sit behind glass in a lobby crossed by heavy timber beams, the room The Denver Post said matched its price tag when veterans reported on 28 July.
Leech spelled out the brief when the campus was first revealed, a design of cross-laminated timber and stone that should look like Colorado and speak to what people see across the state. Professional teams keep making the same call, from the San Antonio Spurs’ $510 million Victory Capital Performance Center to the franchises framing high-performance facilities in mass timber, and the 14-3 roster that reached January’s AFC Championship game now trains under the spruce.
The Walton-Penner group paid $4.65 billion for the franchise in 2022, funded the building privately, and holds a retractable-roof stadium at Burnham Yard to a 2031 opening, the next decision on whether timber follows the franchise downtown. “Who’s in the facility is the most important thing,” head coach Sean Payton told his first team meeting of camp, with the Broncos opening their preseason from the new base on 14 August.
