Robert Smith Bought Into Park Hill Golf Course Development, Deposition Shows

The defunct Park Hill Golf Course has been a veritable battlefield for the past few years. All of the controversy will come to a head on April 4, when Denver voters weigh in on a ballot measure proposing to lift the conservation easement that rests on the property, which would clear the way for development.

In the meantime, though, the property has been the focus of a couple of lawsuits. And one has dragged a high-profile investor into the spotlight: Robert Smith.

“We took in an investment, a little over $8 million, for the golf course development,” Ty Hubbard, a former employee of the Holleran Group, one of the firms working on the development project, said in a January 31 deposition. “It was an investment that we got from Robert Smith.”

Smith — a Denver native who’s the wealthiest…