Google MapsAn aerial view of Denver’s Park Hill golf course.The company that operates the Park Hill Golf Course filed a lawsuit this week against the private trust that owns it, throwing another wrench into discussions about the future of the 155-acre property in northeast Denver.

Dallas-based operator Arcis Golf contends that a scuttled plan by the city of Denver to buy the land should have triggered Arcis’ contractual right of first refusal to purchase the course itself, according to a statement issued Friday by Clayton Early Learning. The education nonprofit manages the George W. Clayton Trust, which owns the land.

The city suspended its plan in November after Arcis notified Clayton that it was still considering whether to renew its lease, which expires at the end of 2018. Arcis has until July to do so, but Clayton has portrayed it as a money-losing venture for the operator.

Arcis’ lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Denver District Court, suggests the company may have another goal, potent..

New research shows many American cities continue to grapple with depressed home values in neighborhoods that were subject to “redlining,” a discriminatory lending policy, 50 years after it was outlawed. But that’s not the case in Denver.

Denver is facing the opposite situation, a recent analysis by real estate research firm Zillow shows. Formerly redlined areas such as Five Points, Baker, Highland and Jefferson Park — as well as, notably, part of Cherry Creek, one of the city’s toniest neighborhoods — now have a higher combined median home value than the city as a whole. And the high values in these areas — north of $540,000 per home — bring their own set of challenges, longtime resident say, including displacement and decreased economic diversity in areas where minorities were left vulnerable by decades of being cut out of the mortgage market.

“I’m seeing very affluent people come either back into the city from the suburbs or from places from across the country,” community activist ..