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...picture in Denver and its eastern suburb of Aurora on Sept. 30, 1994, the day the flag was lowered for the last time at Lowry Air Force Base, was typical of what many communities see when their military facilities close. "We had a thousand empty buildings," recalls Tom Markham, executive director of the Lowry Redevelopment Authority. "We had abandoned runways. We had utilities that were old and in the wrong place." The pain of losing 7,500 civilian jobs at Lowry, where the Air Force had a technical training center, was compounded five years later by the closing of nearby...
Rebuilding was not easy. The Air Force was slow to turn over its property, and the environmental cleanup proved time consuming. But today Denver and Aurora proudly call that land Redevelopment Triangle. The two cities are 80% of the way toward their goal of creating 10,000 jobs there and filling the area with 4,500 homes and apartments, plus 2 million square feet of offices, retail stores and restaurants worth $1.3 billion...
...base was there]," says Markham. The Air Force, for example, paid no property taxes, which are currently collected on the new homes and businesses, and the military jobs that left paid less than the ones that took their place. The Association of Defense Communities sponsored a conference in Denver in June for representatives from more than 200 communities whose bases have closed or are about to close, using the Lowry redevelopment as a showcase for prospering after the military decamps...
...evaluar el poder del arzobispo de San Antonio, Jos? G?mez, su ex jefe, el arzobispo de Denver, Charles Chaput, dice de manera entusiasta, "A ?l lo escuchan en el estado de Texas y en la Conferencia de Obispos de Estados Unidos. Lo escuchan en Roma. Y creo que el gobierno federal lo escuchar? cuando traten asuntos relacionados con las leyes de inmigraci?n?. El a?o pasado, G?mez fungi? como obispo auxiliar, trabajando para Chaput en Denver. Pero en diciembre, el papa Juan Pablo II coloc? al modesto cl?rigo de 53 a?os por encima de cientos de obispos para ser el centro...
...long affiliation with the conservative teaching group Opus Dei guarantees him the Vatican's doctrinal confidence and a support and information network leading high up in Rome. Yet despite his orthodoxy, Gomez is a natural conciliator admired for uniting rich and poor and Anglo and Hispanic Catholics behind Denver's Centro Juan Diego, a hybrid Latino religious-instruction and social-services center hailed as a national model...