Editor s note: The $1.2 million sale was finalized at the end of January.
The final act in a bitter dispute over the sale of two-thirds of El Oasis, a 43-plot garden at 3533 Quivas Street operated by Denver Urban Gardens, included a flurry of animated interjections over Zoom on January 19. The issue was no longer whether a portion of the garden in Highland would be sold the deal is set to close by the end of January but whether the city would issue a zoning permit allowing the property to be divided, ensuring that one-third of the land would remain a garden.
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Gardeners, from left to right: Andy Karsian, Mandy Miller, Patrick Griffith, Julie Kinamore, and Monica Martin, right, stand near their plots of land in the El Oasis Community Garden on Sept. 21, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
After months of uncertainty and frosty relations, Denver Urban Gardens and Lower Highland neighborhood residents who use the El Oasis garden will find out next week whether the property can be split in two.
The roughly 22,000-square-foot green space at 1847 W. 35th Ave.
has been the subject of controversy since nonprofit Denver Urban Gardens (DUG) last year announced it would sell the property for $1.2 million to cover debilitating budget shortfalls.