The Sisters of Colorado for Education have sued the developers of the Park Hill Golf Course over a clubhouse lease.
Sisters of Color, which was founded in 1989, became acquainted with Westside when the organization was leaving a community space at West Eighth Avenue and Santa Fe Drive and needed a new home. It talked with Westside about acquiring one of the buildings on the Loretto Heights campus, which Westside is redeveloping; in the meantime, it agreed to move into the clubhouse at the Park Hill Golf Course for three years.
Since the golf course has been closed since 2018, the clubhouse needed a lot of work, including fixes to the plumbing system and new windows and doors. From February through May 2021, Sisters of Color paid Holleran close to $150,000 for improvements to the clubhouse, as well as another $46,000 to third-party vendors and contractors.
For example, the developers wanted to take some of the leased area away from Sisters of Color and turn it into a community space. Westside and Holleran also wanted to add an element to a new lease that would have mandated that Westside, Holleran and the church group would have the"exclusive right to use each of the rooms in the Sisters of Color’s space for 15 percent of each room’s potential total hours of use per week.
"We weren’t able to use the space in the way we needed to, wanted to or paid for," says Corrales Lujan. The fight led to competing ballot measures in November 2021, with those who opposed development winning out. Their measure requires that lifting a conservation easement that rests on the property and restricts development would be subject to a citywide referendum.
"We just want to make sure that people know that sometimes actions speak louder than words," Corrales Lujan says."Even as a people of color-run organization, we were still not treated very well."
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