Park Hill Golf Course Developer Loses Request for Gag Order

A month after Denver voters weigh in on Referred Referendum 2O, which would lift the conservation easement on the Park Hill Golf Course property and allow development there, Westside Investment Partners, which bought the 155-acre parcel for $24 million in 2019, has a date in court with Sisters of Color United in Education, a nonprofit that once occupied space in the Park Hill Golf Course clubhouse, but then sued Westside.

On March 3, the developer filed a motion regarding that case in Denver District Court, asking to “limit pre-trial disclosure of the deposition testimony in this case outside this proceeding.” Among other revelations in that testimony: Black billionaire Robert Smith, a Denver native, has invested $8 million in the project through the Holleran Group, which joined…