From Fitzsimons to a working medical campus
The old Fitzsimons post became the Anschutz Medical Campus, and Aurora has spent two decades filling the surrounding blocks with research buildings, parking structures and housing. Contract work on that Aurora campus edge runs long, often eighteen months or more, and the units stay in one place with a standing service visit rather than moving weekly.
Placement on the Aurora campus perimeter is a negotiation with traffic control, because the sidewalks are busy and the loading lanes are shared. We set units inside the fence line wherever the Aurora contractor can give us a gate wide enough for a service hose to reach.
Hoffman Heights and the postwar grid
North and west of the campus, Aurora is block after block of late-1940s and 1950s houses built for the post, and those houses are now being opened up. A typical Aurora order here is one standard unit and a handwashing station for a six-week interior job, set on the concrete drive beside the detached garage. Alleys behind the older Aurora blocks are narrow and often gravel, so we confirm which side the truck should approach before the first delivery.
Ground, storms and the Aurora service week
Aurora sits on plains clay that swells and shrinks with every wetting cycle, and that movement shows up as a unit slowly leaning over a long rental. Drivers re-level Aurora units at each visit rather than waiting for someone to complain about the door catching.
Summer hail lands hard on this side of the metro, and an Aurora storm can put roofing crews on a whole subdivision within days. We hold standard units back through July for exactly that, and Aurora roofing orders are usually placed and delivered the same week.