‘He finds ways to get rid of you’: Five Points tenants battle with billionaire-linked landlord

BusinessDen spoke to Five Points business owners about issues with their billionaire-linked landlord

A handful of Five Points tenants have turned against their billionaire-linked landlord.

Multiple businesses that lease space from Denver-based The Flyfisher Group say the firm and its CEO Matthew Burkett is burdening them with bogus charges and attempting to wrest control of their operations while Burkett publicly portrays himself as a force for good.

“What is extremely upsetting to me is the decimation of our neighborhood, bottom line,” said Ryan Cobbins, owner of coffee shop Coffee at the Point and a former Flyfisher employee.

Five Points, particularly the Welton Street corridor, is the historical heart of Denver’s black com- munity. Burkett is black, as are all the business owners who spoke on the record to BusinessDen for this story.

Flyfisher has done business with Robert Smith, a Denver native who is the richest black man in America — worth an estimated $6.7 billion, according to Forbes.