May 1, 2008
GEO Group Detention center neighbor protests expansion plan
A Florida-based property owner has stalled the $72 million expansion of a privately run detention center with a written appeal.
Anthony Paradiso, who owns a 10,000-square-foot building at 1010 Oakland St. in Aurora, sent a letter to the city's planning department protesting the recent decision to allow the extension of the current GEO Group detention facility by about 68,500 square feet and 1,100 in added capacity.
Paradiso, citing the negative impacts of such an expansion on local businesses and pointing to the lack of a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the expansion, formally protested the April 10 decision of the Planning Commission to approve GEO's plans in his letter dated April 18…
LINK - AuroraSentinel.com (The Aurora Sentinel)
