2005 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 6 Jun 2005 18:08:58 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Aurora revives
 
Life Sciences Community Takes Shape In Aurora, Colo.
Out With The Old Military Base, In With A New Development

By ANTHONY CRONIN
New London Day (CT)
June 6, 2005

Aurora, Colo. - Paul Tauer couldn't believe it could happen again.

As the longtime mayor of Aurora, a sprawling city that hugs the southern flanks of Denver, he had to deal with the 1991 closing of the large Lowry Air Force base that straddled his city and nearby Denver.

Four years later, his city of 300,000 people would lose the Fitzsimons Army base and medical center — two base closings in less than five years.

“When we heard Fitzsimons was closing, the panic set in,” he says. The Fitzsimons medical center opened in 1941, right after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. Over the years, it grew in size to consume about 600 acres of Aurora in a campus-like setting that featured military housing, a golf course, and rows of military buildings supporting the high-rise Army medical complex.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=78d18875-8e31-4fd6-b8a1-0cf2b718e590&prnt=1


-- Lenny Siegel Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 http://www.cpeo.org

_______________________________________________
Installation_Reuse_Forum mailing list
Installation_Reuse_Forum@list.cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/installation_reuse_forum

  Prev by Date: [CPEO-IRF] Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (ME) cleanup costs
Next by Date: [CPEO-IRF] "It's Never Too Early To Have 'plan B'"
  Prev by Thread: [CPEO-IRF] Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (ME) cleanup costs
Next by Thread: [CPEO-IRF] "It's Never Too Early To Have 'plan B'"

CPEO Home
CPEO Lists
Author Index
Date Index
Thread Index