Editing Aurora, Ontario (section)

=== Recent developments ===
For most of the 20th century, development in Aurora centred primarily around its historic downtown core at Yonge and Wellington Streets, bounded on the east by Industrial Parkway. Starting in the early 21st century, the town has expanded eastward beyond Industrial Parkway to Highway 404. Since then, Aurora has grown considerably, with new developments stretching the built boundary of the town to be contiguous with Newmarket in the north and Highway 404 in the east. New developments have pulled the economic focal point within the town increasingly eastward towards Highway 404. Aurora's downtown has suffered economically over the years as a result of recent developments.

Aurora is noted for preserving its historical built form in the older parts of town and in 2008 was awarded The Prince of Wales Prize for Municipal Heritage Leadership.<ref>[http://www.aurora.ca/aurora/index.aspx?ArticleID=2951&lang=en-CA Town of Aurora] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110108153400/http://www.aurora.ca/aurora/index.aspx?ArticleID=2951&lang=en-CA |date=January 8, 2011 }}</ref> In 2009, the town received the Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Community Leadership in heritage conservation and promotion.<ref>[http://www.aurora.ca/app/wa/doc?docId=10413 Ontario Heritage Trust media release] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164930/http://www.aurora.ca/app/wa/doc?docId=10413 |date=July 6, 2011 }}</ref> Northeast Old Aurora was designated in 2006 as a provincial [[Heritage Conservation District]].<ref>{{cite web |title=List of Heritage Conservation Districts |url=http://www.mtc.gov.on.ca/en/heritage/heritage_conserving_list.shtml |website=Ministry of Tourism, Culture, and Sport |publisher=Government of Ontario |access-date=3 August 2019}}</ref>

On April 8, 2010, the town reopened the historic and fully renovated Church Street School as the Aurora Cultural Centre.