by Bill Murphy | Sep 15, 2022 | Updates
After a $125 million renovation, it’s reopening as Weston Bridges, a 53-unit apartment community for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Watch the full video here. by Bill Murphy | Sep 14, 2022 | Updates
The city of Aurora cut the ribbon on the newly-developed Copley Hospital. The huge campus has been vacant since 1995 and is open again with new resources for the community. CBS 2’s Asal Rezaei was in Aurora to learn just how the new resources mean for the local... 
by Bill Murphy | Sep 13, 2022 | Updates
After sitting vacant for 25 years, a hospital in Aurora reopened Tuesday with a new purpose. The old Copley Hospital Campus was revitalized with a $125 million investment. The new development, called Weston Bridges, is a 53-unit, single-bedroom residential community.... 
by Bill Murphy | Oct 27, 2021 | Updates
The former Copley Hospital stood as an eyesore for nearly a quarter of a century on the east side of Aurora. Its vacant buildings attracted vandals and trespassers. The deterioration of the 9-acre property at Lincoln and Weston avenues was affecting the neighborhood... by Bill Murphy | Sep 13, 2021 | Updates
For a quarter-century, the shuttered Copley Memorial Hospital haunted an east-side Aurora residential neighborhood. Vandals broke its windows and painted graffiti inside and out. Ghost-hunters, squatters and the just-plain curious broke in and roamed its halls.... 
by Bill Murphy | Aug 3, 2021 | Updates
After decades of hearing it can’t be done, the residents of the Bardwell neighborhood are watching a blight turn into a gem right before their eyes. And few have a better view than Myra and Albert Fonseca, who bought their Aurora home 29 years ago mainly because it...