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
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