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Aurora staff outline retail strategy; council backs stakeholder outreach

Aurora Planning and Economic Development Committee · November 12, 2025
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Summary

Planning staff previewed a retail strategy aiming to strengthen retail centers, simplify anchor incentives, expand reinvestment tools for small centers and offer safety/security grants; targeted stakeholder engagement will begin in January 2026.

The Planning and Business Development Department presented a draft retail strategy to the Planning and Economic Development Committee on Nov. 12 that would revise incentives, expand programs targeted at smaller centers and offer safety and security grants to increase visits and investment.

Janine Rostad, the director, said the strategy's goals are to strengthen and reactivate retail centers, improve the public realm and promote balanced tenant mixes that…

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