Denver quietly gave 20 additional acres to a developer in the city’s land swap deal to acquire the former Park Hill Golf Course, which opened to the public as a park on Tuesday.

The added acreage granted to Westside Investment Partners was needed to supplement the deal, a city spokeswoman said Tuesday, after officials discovered that two underground fiber optic lines would make part of the original allotment impossible to develop. But the need for extra land wasn’t announced publicly before the deal closed earlier this month.

Mayor Mike Johnston’s administration initially had agreed to swap 145 acres of empty city-owned land near Denver International Airport in exchange for Westside Investment Partners’ 155-acre former golf course property in northeast Denver. But an appraiser found

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