Coldwell BankerAngela Osborn
This week's cover story, "The Hard Sell," looks into the curious case of Erik Osborn, the Denver developer who is demanding the city provide him with a free public defender despite the fact that he lives in a multi-million dollar "villa" in the uber-ritzy Polo Club neighborhood.
Osborn's wife, real estate broker Angela Osborn, currently has the 14,841-square-foot home on the market for $6.5 million. But after questions from Westword, the Colorado Division of Real
Erik and Angela Osborn.
Erik Osborn, the developer behind the One Lincoln Park luxury tower downtown, showed up at his status hearing yesterday with a little surprise: He found a lawyer.
A grand jury indicted Osborn in late 2007 on charges that he had allegedly stolen tens of thousands of dollars from business partners -- including car dealer "Dealin' Doug" Moreland -- for improvements on his former multimillion dollar home near Cherry Creek. Check out the Westword feature "The Hard Sell" for
One Lincoln Park
In May, we wrote about local auto pitchman "Dealin' Doug" Moreland's nasty dispute with Erik Osborn, the developer of über-fancy, über-troubled residential tower called One Lincoln Park. Osborn is currently awaiting trial on charges that he funneled money from his many construction projects to pay for his lavish Polo Club lifestyle. Moreland was the biggest investor in the $100 million One Lincoln Park. Considering the slow sales of units, it may be a while before he gets his
One Lincoln Park: Where charitable people go to die.If you work in the Golden Triangle and hear any loud screams today: Worry not. It is (probably) not one of your favorite Westwordians falling from the roof of the Fainting Goat. It is, more likely, the sound of someone who just donated $1,000 to rappel down the face of a very tall building and is now hurdling toward his death, screaming and thinking, "Huh. I donated $1,000 to cancer research for the right to scale this building. Maybe I should
Erik Osborn, the disgraced developer who has a December 7 trial date in Denver District Court, failed to show up for a hearing yesterday.
The Denver District Attorney's office sent this brief note to some of the complainants in what has grown into two separate criminal cases against Erik Osborn, including "Dealing Doug" Moreland, who got involved in Osborn's One Lincoln Place project, and Michelle Brokaw, a one-time partner in 1800 Glenarm: "Mr. Osborn failed to appear for court this mo
