The Park Hill Golf Course holds a lot of history, memories and opportunities for residents in Denver and beyond. This timeline details its complex history as its exact future remains up in the air.
DENVER — The Park Hill Golf Course holds a lot of history, memories and opportunities for residents in Denver and beyond.
August 2017 | As of this time, the Park Hill Golf Course was owned by the George W. Clayton Trust. Clayton Early Learning said it wanted to reinvent the 155 acres of land once its lease with Arcis Golf, which operated the golf course, was up in 2018. September 2017 | The City of Denver announced it would present an agreement to Denver City Council in August 2017 about its plan to purchase Park Hill Golf Course and work with Clayton Early Learning to develop a master plan for the area.
The land was under a city-held easement restriction that prevented development on the area, thanks to a $2 million deal reached between former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb and Clayton Early Learning in 1997. Due to this, as of January 2023, the only allowable use for the area is a regulation-length, 18-hole daily-fee golf course and driving range. This means that the only way to transition this into a new public park or new housing is to lift the easement.
November 2017 | The City of Denver suspended its proposed plan to purchase the Park Hill Golf Course. During this time, Nancy Kuhn, Denver Public Works spokesperson, said the City of Denver would move forward with an alternate approach in order to obtain the acres needed for the stormwater detention project.
April 2018 | Arcis Golf, which operated Park Hill Golf Course at the time, filed a lawsuit against Clayton Early Learning, saying it was seeking to activate its contractual right of first refusal to match the City of Denver's earlier purchase offer, according to Denver7 news partners at The Denver Post.
Neighbors, a former mayor and a developer grapple over the future of the Park Hill Golf Course Brantley, CEO and president of Clayton Early Learning, said she hoped the sale would sustain the nonprofit's early education mission for children with limited opportunities. Westside Investment Partners President Andrew R. Klein, a Colorado native, called the purchase a rare opportunity.
Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, who lives near the golf course, was one of the vocal opponents of development on the golf course. He told Denver7 that he was concerned that he was going to lose open space in the heart of the city. He was mayor when the 1997 land easement deal was reached with Clayton Early Learning to prevent development on the area.
But before any planning would begin, Klein, the president of Westside Investment Partners, said they would launch an extensive community listening tour to have conversations with the public about their opinions and ideas. October 2019 | Denver city officials announced they were negotiating an agreement to end the several legal battles surrounding the former Park Hill Golf Course, while also ensuring the city and community could retain the right to approve any changes to how it would be used in the future.
Later in October 2019, the group Save Open Space Denver — which Denver former mayor Webb recently joined — asked the city to protect the conservation easement for the property to protect the space and preserve it from any future developments. The group wrote a letter to the mayor and city council, which included a legal opinion from a conservation attorney who believed only a court can terminate the easement.
The money paid to the development company ended all litigation involving the plot of land and made way for a conversation about its future. It also maintains the requirement for Westside to get Denver City Council approval to make changes to the land. May 2021 | The City of Denver worked with a market research firm to survey neighbors around the Park Hill Golf Course and the results were released in mid-May.
RRC Associates out of Boulder, which put the survey together, defended the survey, saying it has done market research like this since 1983. December 2021 | In mid-December, the City of Denver released its priorities for the Park Hill Golf Course. Swartz, then-spokesperson for Community Planning and Development for the City of Denver, said the city identified key components that nearby residents wanted incorporated into the space.
Denver developer releases preliminary plans for redevelopment of former Park Hill golf course "We think our plan reflects the recommendations," Ho said."We're planning to donate more than 100 acres of the 155 acres. That will be enough to create the city's fourth-largest park, and its eleventh and newest regional park. In the city, we heard loud and clear that the community really prioritized parks and open space here.
October 2022 | A guiding plan for potential redevelopment of the former Park Hill Golf Course and new zoning for that property inched closer to reality when the Denver Planning Board voted to pass them onto the City Council for consideration, according to The Denver Post. This plan — which you can read in full here — was approved on Oct. 19 by the Denver Planning Board and adopted by Denver City Council on Dec. 5.
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