Following an eight-day trial in the U.S. District Court of Colorado, a jury has ruled that the owners and former operator of the Mint Urban Infinity Apartments in Denver must pay a total of over $13.5 million to their current and former tenants for violating the state’s warranty of habitability law, according to Denver7.
Over 200 current and former Mint Urban tenants filed a class action lawsuit against Denver-based Cardinal Group Management and New York City-based Glendale Properties I and II — holding companies for Singapore-based Mapletree Investments — on Oct. 22, 2021, according to court documents. Neither Cardinal nor Mapletree have responded to requests for comment from Multifamily Dive.
The plaintiffs claimed that Mint Urban — a nine-building, 561-unit property — had been misrepresented to them in Cardinal’s advertising, which allegedly promoted the property’s newly renovated pool, elevators and air conditioning. Instead, they allegedly found all three of these amenities were either nonfunctional or frequently broken…