The Capital Region International Airport received a $2.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Treasury to fund taxiway and facility improvements.
According to excerpts from the article:
“This, together with the new customs station there, really helps put our airport and Lansing on the map,” said Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero.
The largest chunk of the grant—nearly $1.6 million—will fund an extension of one taxiway and rehabilitation of two others.
“Extending that taxiway . . . will allow wide-body aircraft to easily pull up to the terminal building for international flights,” said Bob Selig, executive director of the Capital Region Airport Authority, which runs the airport. Two other taxiways will be improved.
“Over the last three or four years we have had to defer some of that maintenance because we were putting all of our money into the runway extension,” Selig said. Nearly $20,000 will go to monitor wetland mitigation stemming from the airport’s runway extension.
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