Aurora, Colorado hangs tough in bid for NASCAR track
Quote selected text Published December 17th, 2007 in NASCAR News
Commerce City is out of the running, but Aurora [Colorado] officials still hope to lure a NASCAR racetrack to the city. Ten months after International Speedway Corp. announced its desire to build a NASCAR racetrack in the metro area, ISC officials still haven’t decided on a location or whether it will be built here at all. Wes Harris, spokesman for the International Speedway Corp. in Florida, said his company has looked at several locations for a potential track but nothing recently. Now, the ISC is focusing on securing a commitment for a public-private partnership to help finance the track.
That could mean, for example, creating a special taxing district similar to how Invesco Field at Mile High was financed or other measures. “We’re very interested in Aurora, and we are very interested in the metro Denver region,” Harris said Friday. “In order to be able to run NASCAR Sprint Cup level events, it’s going to require a public-private partnership. Our focus right now is on just trying to build support for that.” One talked-about site in Aurora is near Front Range Airport. Another potential Aurora site near the High Point development close to Denver International Airport fell through this year. Discussions between Aurora and ISC have slowed in recent months because of the City Council elections (a potential tax increase is never a popular campaign plank to run on) in November and now the holidays.
But Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier said he still thinks there’s a good chance Aurora will land the track, a facility that would put Aurora on the map, generate sales-tax revenue and be an amenity to the entire region. “I’m confident we could put together a deal,” Frazier said. “We’re going to continue to press this thing and hopefully make it a reality for the people of Aurora and Colorado.”
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They need to put a track here in Oklahoma
This kinda sounds like ISC said, that piece of land is the right size for a racetrack. And then the town/city thought that meant they will get a Cup race. If this track gets built there (or anywhere else) don’t look for it to get a cup date right away or at all, and this time NASCAR needs to make that clear so we don’t end up with another situation like we have down in Kentucky.
ISC is NASCAR their basically the same company just under different name if they build track in colorado, cup will race there 1st year its open just like they did at there kansas track,ISC is branch of nascar that owns tracks they’ll race at any track they build.
And as for kentucky I live hour from track they wouldve had a race by now but the owner jerry carroll is a retard that doesnt know anything about racing he owned horse racing tracks,hes made bad deals an has bad investment partners.
As stated before ISC is NASCAR or NASCAR is ISC, do not look for the Kentucky screw up to happen. The National Western Stock Show is a Major event around Denver. They are getting too big for their current location. Reliable information has the stock show organizers talking with ISC to build a multipurpose site that might also include Bandimere Raceway. Several very influential busineses are now involved to help negioations. The biggest obstacle is the screwed up City Counsel for the City of Aurora where the track is being proposed. They turned down a generious proposal several years ago for no good reason.