[CPEO-IRF] Aurora revives

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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.

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


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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

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