The legislature’s appropriation provides $15 million for site work at the airport, $35 million for roadwork through the NC Department of Transportation and $56.75 million for the airport to use “for the construction of one or more new hangars.Focusing on the country version, Boomplay Recap highlighted categories including Top Male Artistes, Top Female Artistes, Top Rising Stars, Most Streamed Songs, Fastest Rising Songs to Hit 1Million, Most Searched Artistes, among others. “Any project that comes around will depend on where it goes and the needs to finalize it.”
“We have sections from 100 to 200 acres that are ready to go,” he told WGHP. Then we can start removing the hill where the current tower is located.”īaker said last week that any new tenant at the airport would have options about how many acres might be required.
It’s picking up pace and should be finished by summer. “It’s 114 feet tall and can be seen from I-40 and other roads. “They have about a million more yards to move,” Rosser said.Īnother key requirement to growth, the relocation of the orange-and-white-striped radar tower from the corner of I-73 and NC 68 south to adjacent to Market Street, is making progress, he said. He said the contractor on the “northwest property” – the land across I-73 that formerly was the Pleasant Ridge Golf Course – continued to place the embankment along the property, a dirt-moving operation that passersby see with dust-blowing clarity. PTI Chief Operating Officer Alex Rosser reviewed for the board progress on the connecting taxiway to link to the bridge already built over I-73 – “paving and grading are underway and then they need to permanent seed” – which he said should wrap up in the “next four weeks.” Based in Denver and founded in 2014, Boom would build a smaller passenger jet that it says is the next iteration of the Concorde SST, promising flights from Montreal to Paris, for instance, in about half the time it takes for a conventional passenger jet.īut there was no Boom lowered at PTI’s board meeting, although the land where the facility might be built certainly was reviewed. Next up is the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, which will discuss possible incentives during a public hearing scheduled for Thursday.īoom was reported first by The News & Observer to be the courted company. They would make an average of $60,000 a year, the bill did stipulate.
The General Assembly approved $106.75 million in a Job Development Investment Grant for “a high-yield project for an airplane manufacturer in Guilford County,” which would be located on all or some of the roughly 1,000 acres being developed on the northwest side of I-73.īased on the qualifications for a JDIG, this project would mean about 1,700 new jobs and $500 million in investment, although the bill didn’t specify those numbers.