Aurora says Gaylord hotel project still deserves tax incentives

“Developers of a proposed 1,500-room Aurora hotel and conference center denied Monday that their project has been “materially changed” and needs to reapply for state tax credits it’s been granted.

They also scoffed at the notion that hotel owner Marriott International would have enough of a share of the Colorado meeting space market that it would constitute an antitrust violation.

The comments came in response to a request filed Friday with the Colorado Economic Development Commission (EDC) asking the appointed state board to revoke as much as $81.4 million in tax-increment financing it voted to grant to Aurora and the proposed hotel’s developer in May 2012.”

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Sealover, Ed. Denver Business Journal 22 July 2013.