Statement of Steering Committee Members for CPD Visioning NEWS for RELEASE December 13, 2021: City and County of Denver Community Planning and Development Laura Swartz (720) 584-9137 laura.swartz@denvergov.org Denver Parks and Recreation Cyndi Karvaski (303) 819-0111 cyndi.karvaski@denvergov.org Dear Laura Aldretti, Happy Haynes, Courtney Livingston, David Gaspers, and Dr. Ryan Ross: Below (and attached) is a statement from members of the PHGC Visioning …Continue reading →
Judge Ross B.H. Buchanan denied Clayton Early Learning motion to dismiss on November 30 2018 and Clayton filed its answer to the amended complaint on December 7 2018 The parties will now engage in discovery and unless the case is settled it will go to trial. Due to the types of claims made by Arcis—and particularly the “duty of good …Continue reading →
This week, Arcis said that it would extend its lease on the land for five years, according to the landowner. The lease was set to the expire at the end of this year, but Arcis has taken the option to extend it until 2023.
“The golf course land continues to be an asset of the Clayton Trust and its revenue helps support Clayton Early Learning’s mission to improve early care and education during the critical first five years, especially for children living in communities of limited opportunity. Arcis’ decision does not change our mission and we will continue our work educating Denver’s children,” read a written statement provided by Clayton’s public relations firm.
The city originally acted as the trustee for the assets left behind when George Clayton died in 1899. The golf course previously was agricultural and dairy land, and the government managed it as a city golf course starting in 1932. Until 1982, the city itself owned the golf course land. Then it gave the deed over to the George W. Clayton Trust.
City Council members in the late 1980s considered trying to buy the land back from Clayton. Instead, the city paid Clayton for a promise not to develop the land.
In exchange for $2 million, Clayton agreed in 1997 to a “conservation easement,” which says the land can’t be used for anything but golf and related activities.
The relationship between Denver and Clayton Early Learning (previously known as The George W. Clayton Trust) is a long and complicated one going back many, many decades. Most recently, in 2000 the two parties entered into an “Agency Agreement” that was intended to contain the entire agreement between them concerning Park Hill Golf Course (Para. 17). In essence, what the Agreement does is establish Clayton as an …Continue reading →
