AURORA — — In his State of the City address today, Mayor Ed Tauer applauded the city’s efforts to attract new development while also focusing on existing areas for revitalization.
He noted that the new Anschutz Medical Campus on the former Fitzsimons Army base has meant some 17,000 new jobs. Two hospitals have opened there in the past year and officials are working to bring a new veterans hospital to the campus.
“We have become a medical Mecca for the entire Rocky Mountain Region,” Tauer said in his speech at the Raddison Southeast hotel.
The mayor also was proud, he said, of the redevelopment of the Havana Avenue corridor, including the old Buckingham Square that was razed recently but will become a mix of retail and commercial. He said business owners along Havana banded together to form an improvement district to fix up the area.
In the future, he said, the city will be challenged to improve roads, sewer and other infrastructure. The city will have to look at new ways to provide those services to the 309,000 people who call Aurora home.
