Category: Park Hill Golf Course

Future use of Park Hill Golf Course Visioning Process Community Forum


Future use of Park Hill Golf Course Visioning Process Community Forum
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
6-8 pm,
Clayton Early Learning Campus, Administration Building
3801 Martin Luther King Blvd.
It’s tempting to breathe a sigh of relief but please stay engaged and forcefully relay your desire for the 155 acres to remain a golf course or be preserved as open space. Please support the golf course and frequent the clubhouse. It has a great pub for lunch, great views, golf shop with PHGC caps and shirts, etc. Great for events, too.

It is still important that as many people as possible attend the next Clayton-sponsored public meeting on July 10. Because we taxpayers invested $2 million in a perpetual open space conservation easement in 1997, we need to insist that our investment is honored.

March 10 Community Forum: The Future of Park Hill Golf Course


By Georgia Garsey, Your Hub, March 5 2017

Original Article Here

 

Park Hill Golf Course is a beautiful and historic piece of open space located about five miles from Downtown Denver. Not only do golfers report a great golfing experience at the 155 acre course, but the appearance of foxes, hawks and other creatures in the heart of the city lend to the feeling of getting away for awhile in a green and tree-filled landscape. Bob Hope golfed here and it was the home course of Bebe Zaharias who won three U.S. Women’s Opens and is often cited as the top woman athlete of the 20th Century.

All these folks, famous or not, have been treated to copious amounts of – let’s just say it – FRESH AIR! And this is a good news story in a city that has received an F rating from the American Lung Association for ozone emissions.

The Park Hill Golf Course is now facing an uncertain future. The land is owned by the Clayton Trust, a non-profit that provides high quality education for birth to five year olds, especially those of limited opportunities. Clayton claims it requires $1,000,000 in yearly lease revenue from the golf course or $24 million from land sales to continue its mission. The revenues received from the PHGC lease represent 7% of Clayton’s revenues. The course is currently operated by Arcis Equity Partners. Its lease expires at the end of 2018, and it has until June 30 to decide whether to exercise its option of renewing the first of its two 5-year options to renew. It also has a right of first refusal to acquire the PHGC land during the term of the lease.