A developer is eyeing the former SciTech building in downtown Aurora for redevelopment as a grocery store and brewery.
Mayor Richard Irvin this week confirmed the interest is from a developer who has done business in Aurora before, but would not name the company.He said the deal for the city-owned building is not done yet and is a couple of years away.
“Everything comes in time,” Irvin said. “We’re not ready for a grocery store downtown. But within a few years, with the completion of these developments downtown, we will be.”Aurora has had several redeveloped apartment buildings open within the last few years. In two years, the DAC Development, more than 200 units on the east bank of the Fox River along North Broadway, and the Windfall Group development on the west bank, also with more than 200 units, will open.
And there is more residential development downtown contemplated along the west bank near the Windfall development.In addition to the half grocery, half brewery, the developer would also do a second phase of development, a new residential high-rise, behind the building at 18 W. Benton St. The building there was built in 1932 as the Aurora Post Office, and served in that capacity until the post office moved to its current location on North Broadway in 1988. It served as home for the SciTech hands-on science museum for 34 years until last year, when the museum closed there.
SciTech is reopening as part of the APS Training Academy’s offerings on the second floor of the APS Tower, 105 E. Galena Blvd., at the corner of Galena and Broadway in downtown Aurora.
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