City acquires Park Hill Golf Course property, will turn it into park

[@MK99112]

I’m a golfer but we need more of this. Park district owns Applewood Golf Course for example but you can’t even use it for anything else, like sledding in the winter. Turn it into a winter sports park and get these kids out of the house so they can socialize.

[@prophetzarquon]

Thank you! I used to love playing on the public golf courses during off season as a kid, & the first time I was told as an adult, here, that I couldn't even use the paths, I was utterly confused: "Is the course open? Is this private property? If not, then why are you restricting my use of this, the only path through this area?"

[@bcc7777]

What? They're not turning it into apartments? Shocked!

[@prophetzarquon]

Stopped by voting! 🤯

[@Dave-my1we]

That land just needs to be “open space”. It doesn’t need $50m of “infrastructure” to make it into anything. Let it to to prairie and do a high school/college environmental studies on it as it turns from golf to prairie dogs.

[@NaturebyGus]

Totally. Prairie dogs (the real native wildlife in Colorado and a keystone species) are being decimated everywhere for new developments and more space is needed for the few approved relocations.

[@Cucumberflavoredmustard]

Sure, and watch the street people take it over.

[@prophetzarquon]

Well protected Open Space designation, would absolutely be the best thing to do with this land.

[@lauralafauve5520]

That sounds nice.

[@d3adbeatraccoon]

Why not put a grocery store? Park Hill has been a food desert since the 90s. It's still absolutely ridiculous that the closest Walmart/Kings is either Central Park or Commerce City. I guess it's all been so gentrified that the residents can just afford get their stuff delivered.

[@prophetzarquon]

I agree that there's a pitiable dearth of groceries in NorthEast Denver & the East end of central Denver. I doubt it's delivery food that's keeping grocery stores out, though. Anecdotally, I know people there who pretty much only eat delivery, but they still end up driving to real stores to get stuff. Same story but worse, in low income areas. Necessitating a car to commute, allowed stores to move farther away. Consumers _don't_ drive our markets, today; investors do, & an investor's ideal business is far from a consumer's ideal business...

[@GarageGeek]

I wouldn’t live in that area so I don’t have a care about this issue. But it is an example of the blatant mismanagement and failure of the government to address Colorado’s housing crisis. I will keep enjoying my insane property appreciation until I bail on this doomed State.

[@certifiedskint9321]

Excellent! What a lovely area! 150 acres for the homeless to camp in.

[@GarageGeek]

Community doesn’t realize people will be living there one way or another…