On January 20th, Rocky Mountain News columnist Mary Voelz Chandler provided an update on the fate of Country Club Gardens and two other endangered landmarks. In the process, she also gave a larger window into the history of the site:

"WHAT IT IS: A complex of apartments built in 1940 to a design by Fisher, Fisher and Hubbell, as the first Federal Housing Administration project in the region. The lines are moderne, the landscaping lush.

When the landmark commission began to consider the campus for historic district status in the late 1990s, owner Pat Broe said no way; he was considering plans to demolish more than 50 percent of the site to put up 28-story towers. The flap led to a three-year discussion and a months-long public hearing to create a development agreement and design guidelines if Broe wanted to proceed on the site.

WHY IT'S SIGNIFICANT: Those plans are back, though modified. Now Broe is talking two towers, at a maximum height of 300 feet, holding up to 500 units, plus a 36-foot-tall parking structure. About 30 existing units would be destroyed and views affected at the neighboring Norman."

The complete article can be found online.