The Panama City News reports the Panama City International Airport is on schedule despite efforts to slow it down. Look out west Panama City folks, this area will explode when people get a first hand look and the Emerald Coast with the white sand beaches and emerald waters.
Airport Construction on Schedule, In Budget 07/28/09 -
05:15 PM By: Mary Scott Speigner Bay County, Fla:
The first airport since September 11th is more than half way finished with a little less than a year to go before opening day. The actual site is 4,000 acres but the airport will take up about 1,400 acres. The Panama City Bay County International Airport is busy with construction workers getting closer to the May 2010 deadline. “Overall we’re pretty much on schedule we got a few buildings that’s running behind but we got plans in place that we’re going to make up for that,” said Randy Curtis, the airport director. Construction is now 65% complete. The $330-million dollar airport will have two concourses and five gates, only three of them open at first.
Curtis says we still have to wait to find out which airlines are coming. He says it will probably be announced within the next 6 months. “The airline industry is a very competitive industry and typically they don’t make announcements of future service until just a few months out,” said Curtis. Also expected in the next few months are announcements about new jobs at the new airport. The master developers, a company out of Chicago called Jones Lang LaSalle say they will help to bring jobs to the area with cargo and defense companies.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
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