One of many giant logistics campuses popping out of the prairie near Denver International Airport opened for business Monday, just 19 months from when the project broke ground on a barren 148-acre site.
Some 500 jobs are arriving in Aurora, along with Philip Morris International’s new Zyn manufacturing plant.
The $1.2 billion campus for producing smokeless nicotine pouches places Aurora within a national network of tobacco industry towns that have traditionally been based in southern states like Kentucky, North Carolina and Virginia…