CBZ Management Shifts is a New York-based management business that operates the Aurora apartment complexes where TdA has “taken control,” per the company’s admission. In a lengthyposted by CBZ over the weekend, the company gave an account of the TdA debacle that contradicted the narrative from city officials and accused them of “deny the reality of the situation, sometimes using us as scapegoats.”
The property management company said it ran into problems, such as a rise “in crime and tenant complaints” when TdA gang members “arrived,” reported their problems to the City Council, and found that “none were willing to take meaningful action.” After CBZ said it realized gang members were operating a scheme to act as landlords to newcomers and illegally take rent from people, many of them immigrants sent to live in the complexes by Aurora-area nonprofit groups, it once again contacted “every city official we could think of for help with the problem.”After some time, we noticed a rise in crime and tenant complaints. The most alarming moment occurred when our local CBZ representative was attacked at the end of 2023.
In August, the city of Aurora announced plans to shutter one of CBZ’s apartment complexes and cited “unresolved code violations and other poor conditions at the property for the last few years” as the reason for the closure. Despite the FBI’s report that TdA members were wreaking havoc in the apartment complex, Aurora City Mayor Mike Coffman said at the time that the problems in the building were not caused by gang activity.