By 1964, the company had developed a master plan for a city of 50,000 residents.
A chief reason is the appreciation in home prices in this city of 372,242 residents.
It is a city of 76,700 residents, with an average income of $14,400 and 11 percent unemployment.
In the last four years, about 650 jobs have been created in this city of 50,000 residents.
In retrospect, many say, a new urban core was just what this city of 25,000 residents needed.
Today, Aurora is a culturally diverse city of around 200,000 residents.
If there were no outside military intervention, he said, the city of 400,000 residents would probably fall.
The city of 443,878 residents has gained 9,000 people since the early 1990's.
The charges did not come as a surprise in this struggling city of 8,000 residents.
The shooting touched off protests in this city of 61,000 residents.