One of Aurora’s fastest-growing areas is running into an unexpected and confusing obstacle: uncertainty over whether natural gas service will be available for thousands of new homes and a school already under construction.
Along the Jewell Avenue corridor east of E‑470, backhoes and construction crews signal what developers describe as Aurora’s next major growth frontier. Tens of thousands of homes are planned in the area, with many already underway.
“The only place you can go is east. You can’t go into the city. You can’t go west into the mountains. You can’t really go south any further, and so that’s why this area is really popular from a growth standpoint,” said Jerry Richmond, CEO of Integrity Land Ventures, one of the developers working in the area.
That growth has spurred new infrastructure, including a new Aurora Public Schools P-8 campus…