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Friday, SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
Developers seek a tax break posed development project to date has met the threshold. So naturally, nobody has used the exemption. Recently, however, the powers behind two major development projects proposed for the catalyst blocks south of Auburn City Hall wrote the
By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
From the day in 2003 when the City of Auburn adopted its multi-family property tax exemption, calling for a minimum investment per unit of $200,000 to qualify, not a single pro-
City asking for amendments to the ordinance, a little flexibility, so they could qualify. The first, Landmark Development, is to break ground in October on a five-story, 126-unit, mixed-use [ more TAX BREAK page 10 ]
Auburn’s Ariana Kukors has decided to call it a career after an accomplished run in international swimming, which included her participation in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. COURTESY PHOTO, LifeWise
Olympian Kukors decides to retire from world-class swimming By SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter
GENTLY NOW Three-year old Ava McMasters from Maple Valley gets acquainted with Sunny Boy, the Burmese python, during Green River Community College’s Gator Fest last Saturday. Sunny Boy, one of Clayton Green’s Roving Reptiles menagerie, is 12 years old, 12-feet long and weighs about 75 pounds.
more photos online… auburn-reporter.com
The festival dedicated the college’s new Cedar Hall building and featured a free pancake breakfast, demonstrations, a car show, music from KGRG radio and vendors selling everything from barbecue to bees. SHAWN SKAGER, Auburn Reporter
When the time came to hang up her swim cap for good, Ariana Kukors had no qualms. “I always kind of thought that 2012 would be my last year,” the now-retired Olympian said. “The (London) Olympics were the perfect icing on the cake. I’m very pleased and content with my career. I’m very happy with how everything went and excited to be walking away with great memories and great friends.”
After spending much of last fall mulling over whether she should step away from her life as a competitor – a career during which she set the 200-meter individual medley (long course) world record and represented her country at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London – when the new year dawned, the Auburn native said, she notified her sponsors of her decision. Kukors, an Auburn Mountainview graduate and a Pac-10 champion at the University of Washington, [ more KUKORS page 12 ]
City mulls Avenue Theater’s future, whether to renew lease By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
The City’s lease on the Auburn Avenue Theater may be seven years from expiring, but City officials are
looking ahead, wondering what to do about the building when 2020 comes on. Auburn’s Finance Director Shelley Coleman explained Monday why the City’s Planning and Community
Development Committee decided to take up the subject so early. And it’s not about a crisis. “We’re about halfway through our 15-year-lease, so we need to think about our program needs, where
we are going to go with it, and start planning now for what we’re going to do when the lease is up,” Coleman said. [ more THEATER page 10 ]
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Auburn Community Players: Young Frankenstein the Musical October 4, 5, 11, 12, 18 & 19 at 7:30 p.m. | October 6 & 13 at 2:00 p.m. 880762
$14/$12 (pre-sale); $17/$15 at the door | Auburn Ave. Tickets: www.auburnwa.gov/arts | 253-931-3043