Megan Mitchell

AURORA, CO - NOVEMBER 3: The city of Aurora has launched a new Infill Development Incentive Program which features 50 percent off development fees for qualifying projects that line the I-225 light rail line. City officials believe this will help develop hundreds of vacant properties especially along the east Colfax corridor, including this one in the 9900 block of east Colfax Ave. (Photo by Kathryn Scott/The Denver Post )

Aurora hopes to spur redevelopment of small shops, apartments with limited-time discounts to builders

November 8, 2016 at 5:58 p.m.

The old San Marcos building on East Colfax and many of the storefronts that surround it look shabby from the street.聽Most are vacant with foggy, dark windows and the largest...

DENVER, CO - OCTOBER 25: Project Helping volunteers Lauren Webber, left, Samantha Zinkand, and Diane Ahern, right, work together to prepare breakfast for the young clients at the Urban Peak in Denver on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. (Photo by Kathryn Scott/The Denver Post )

Nonprofit volunteer group in Aurora combats depression through giving back

November 1, 2016 at 3:48 p.m.

After a volunteer experience helped him cope with depression, Aurora resident Justin Kruger founded Project Helping, a nonprofit dedicated to organizing volunteer events around the Denver metro area for people...

FEDERAL HEIGHTS, CO - OCTOBER 27: Joyce White and other renters living in Federal Heights have problems with a home inspection program launched by the city in 2013 that requires renters to leave their home while a city inspector looks over their property. (Photo by Kathryn Scott/The Denver Post )

Federal Heights makes changes to rental inspection program after complaints, city inspector’s departure

November 10, 2016 at 5:14 p.m.

Some residents of Federal Heights are challenging the city on the fairness and legality of a 2013 rental inspection program that officials instituted in order to survey the health and...

FEDERAL HEIGHTS, CO - OCTOBER 27: Joyce White has place mayor recall signs in front of her home, and so have some of her other neighbors. White and other renters living in Federal Heights have problems with a home inspection program launched by the city in 2013 that requires renters to leave their home while a city inspector looks over their property. (Photo by Kathryn Scott/The Denver Post )

Federal Heights residents form recall committee against mayor, mayor pro tem

November 1, 2016 at 11:05 a.m.

A small group of residents in Federal Heights have formed a recall committee with the intent to unseat Mayor Daniel Dick and Mayor Pro Tem John Hamlin.

AURORA, CO - OCTOBER 20: Kerstin Claspell, an employee in the Aurora budget office, charges one of the city's electric fleet vehicles in the parking garage outside of the Aurora Municipal Center on October 20, 2016, in Aurora, Colorado. Aurora's sustainability department facilitated a manufacturer and dealer discount for the purchase of battery-electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric and electric bikes for members of the communities in the Aurora-Denver metro area. This is an effort to support sustainability within the city. (Photo by Anya Semenoff/The Denver Post)

Aurora program offers $10,500 discount on Nissan electric cars to metro residents until Nov. 10

October 27, 2016 at 8:05 a.m.

Colorado residents can get a Nissan LEAF S electric car for a fraction of the tag price until Nov. 10 thanks to a partnership that Aurora officials developed with Tynan鈥檚...

BRIGHTON, CO - OCTOBER 18: Roman Vigil works out an answer to a quiz during an eighth grade algebra class at Vikan Middle School in Brighton, Colorado on October 18, 2016. School District 27J is celebrating the results from the Colorado Department of Education脮s recent release of school and district accountability ratings. For the first time since the state began administering the ratings in 2010, the district has no traditional-enrollment schools on Priority Improvement or Turnaround status. (Photo by Seth McConnell/The Denver Post)

All schools in Brighton district 27J make significant strides in state test results

October 25, 2016 at 7:49 p.m.

For the first time since the Colorado Department of Education began administering school and district accountability ratings in 2010, Brighton's School District 27J has no traditional-enrollment schools in danger of...

DENVER, CO - OCTOBER 11: Vanessa Blacknall Jamison poses for a portrait at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in Denver, Colorado on October 11, 2016. Long time Aurora resident Vanessa Blacknall-Jamison was recently elected the Chairwoman for the "Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals". Vanessa is the first woman, first African American woman and non-pilot to head the organization in its 40 year history. (Photo by Seth McConnell/The Denver Post)

Aurora woman becomes first chairwoman of the Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals

December 1, 2016 at 10:30 a.m.

Vanessa Blacknall-Jamison of Aurora is the first woman and first non-pilot to be elected chairwoman of the Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals.

BRIGHTON, CO - OCTOBER 13: Alex Harrington does lateral raises while lifting weights in the weight room at Brighton Recreation Center in Brighton, Colorado on October 13, 2016. The City of Brighton's only recreation center is overcrowded, and the city has been quietly discussing plans to build a second recreation center in the east portion of the city for several months. (Photo by Seth McConnell/The Denver Post)

As Brighton grows, so does its need for space at the recreation center

October 19, 2016 at 12:20 a.m.

Brighton's sole recreation center is busint at the seems, so the city is looking into expanding it or adding another facility.

NORTHGLENN, CO - OCTOBER 6: Gracen Bolin, left, strains liquid to determine what particles the liquid may contain as Brock Conway looks on during a fifth grade science and engineering class at STEM Lab in Northglenn, Colorado on October 6, 2016. Several bond issues will be up for vote in the Adams 12 district in November, including reconstruction of wing at the STEM Lab in Northglenn. (Photo by Seth McConnell/The Denver Post)

The Adams 12 Five Star School district would construct a new school, make repairs at 50 more

October 12, 2016 at 12:28 p.m.

Adams 12 Five Star School District STEM Lab K-8 can hold 1,000 students but hosts less than half that number because of its building's aging infrastructure. District officials say this...

Aurora calls on community for input on ideas for re-development

October 11, 2016 at 4:47 p.m.

City officials want to know what residents love and hate about Aurora. They want to get a clear picture of the city's current image and an even clearer plan for...

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