Side Pony, Duality, Original Glam and tenants at the 1515 Flats apartments near Denver's Sloan Lake are pushing to hold Cardinal Group accountable.
Located at 4635 West Colfax Avenue near Sloan's Lake, the cafe and bar — along with its sister businesses, the fitness studio Duality and IV lounge/med spa Original Glam — sits on the ground floor of the 1515 Flats apartments located at 1515 Vrain Street.
They were instead forced to get their updates from Sevcik on social media, which turned out to be far more informative than anything offered by. “We couldn’t get inside because the elevators and front doors weren’t working,” Nofe says; the building is run on a key fob system and the emergency maintenance line was down.
It was sweltering that week, so residents couldn’t realistically stay in their homes without electricity. Food had been rotting away in their fridges; some, like Nofe, who work from home were unable to do their jobs; many relocated to a hotel for their week on their own dime.Both commercial and retail tenants report communication being largely one-sided, with them asking questions and Cardinal Group being extremely slow to answer, if it responded at all.
“One hundred residents and three businesses have spoiled food that had gone into the trash chutes and piled up into the resident hallways,” Sevcik says. “It was absolutely filthy. …When we opened up for business operations on Tuesday, our entire businesses were covered in maggots and rats and urine and anything that loves trash.”
According to tenants, Cardinal Group won’t waive the fee for breaking a lease for people who wish to move out early because of the ongoing mess. “They say they aren’t breaching the Warrant of Habitability because they responded within 96 hours,” Nofe says. “They also say the rent abatement resolves their culpability.”
Tenants have talked about forming a union or working together in some sort of way to get accountability. In the course of the discussions, it was discovered that Cardinal Group is the subject of a class action lawsuit over its poor management at. Residents managed to connect with the lead plaintiff from that case to ask him how to better advocate for themselves.
Gonzales is still working on exactly what that might look like, but intends to address it legislatively in the 2024 session. In the meantime, she encourages those with similar experiences to reach out so she can be sure legislation addresses what’s happening on the ground.
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