There goes the neighborhood!
"Many cultures, one voice," residents chanted in English, Spanish, Burmese and Karen on October 15 at a demonstration at New Freedom Park that then moved through the East Colfax neighborhood. That area and parts of northwest Aurora are populated by a community of lower-income people,The residents were protesting a condominium development called the Ambience that is slated to begin construction soon at the southeast corner of Yosemite Street and East 14th Avenue, on the edge of Aurora.
"I came to the United States on September 20, 2007, and I have been living in East Colfax for fifteen years," Say Ra Sein, a refugee from Thailand, said in Karen at the event."Right now, with developers who build the big buildings, I am afraid for how my future will look and afraid for my people." Bruno Tapia, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation. "We want to let the Aurora planning commission and developer Aman Kochhar know that we are against the development in our neighborhood. The community was not taken into consideration when planning this development, and this is not the first or the last that they’re gonna hear of us.
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