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May 17, 2021

Park Hill Golf Course (Part Two): The Developers Speak!

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Park Hill Golf Course (Part Two): The Developers Speak!

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Basically no one wants to keep a golf course on those 155 acres of open space in Northeast Park Hill, but that poses a big question: What do we want? Should we restrict development, as former mayoral candidate and open spaces advocate Penfield Tate argued on the show last week, or should we aim for a new kind of people-first development? That’s the case today’s guests are here to make. In part two of our series on the PHGC development fight, host Bree Davies sits down with the developers who own the land: Kenneth Ho, principal with Westside Investment Partners, and Norman Harris, co-founder and managing partner with The Holleran Group. 

If you want to make your voice heard after hearing from Penfield, Kenneth, and Norman, we’ve collected a bunch of good links for you:

Tomorrow, Tuesday May 18, the Department of Community Planning and Development is hosting a public comment period at the end of the PHGC Steering Committee meeting (5:30-7:30 p.m.). You must register for the zoom meeting AND sign up to speak if you want your turn. Do all that here: https://denvergov.org/Government/Departments/Community-Planning-and-Development/Community-Engagement/CPD-Calendar/Park-Hill-Golf-Course-May-Steering-Committee-Meeting

If you can’t make it, you can submit your thoughts on the future of the PHGC site at any time to the Department of Community Planning and Development: https://us.openforms.com/Form/68f78400-f89a-4450-ac8a-93eecf6c865c 

To learn more about Kenneth and Norman’s plans for the site, here’s Westside Investment Partners’ site about the project: https://www.parkhillgolfcoursereimagined.info/

If you’re interested in Penfield’s YES on Open Space Campaign, you can read more here: https://yesopenspace.org/

And here’s a link to the site for Save Open Space Denver, the community group pushing to maintain the old golf course as some kind of open space: https://sosdenver.net/

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