Offering a unique combination of business opportunity and small town lifestyle, Aurora is a great place to live and a community which has all the components required for a successful business. Approximately 30 minutes north of the City of Toronto, Aurora offers an experienced and varied work force. Established and developing Industrial Parks are connected by good regional rail, transit and road systems. The historic downtown core on Yonge Street is supplemented by a wide variety of retail outlets and office centres.
Residential neighbourhoods encompass a wide diversity of housing styles and types.
Over 500 acres of open and picturesque parkland are available for town residents to enjoy, with a first class recreational complex, outstanding playing fields and extensive pedestrian trail system. Cultural amenities include an excellent library, a live performance theatre, provincially recognized museums and an annual equestrian show. Aurora currently boasts over 120 major industries and head offices, several public and private education facilities, health care services, regional hospitals within close proximity and a stable municipal government. The opening of Yonge Street in 1796 by John Graves Simcoe brought Loyalist and Quaker settlers to the area. A community, first known as Machell's Corners, grew up at the crossroads of Yonge and Wellington Streets along the banks of Tannery Creek.