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Old Mar 7, 2023, 2:31 pm
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The award, which came from the Biden administration’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, is a fraction of the estimated $97 million that will ultimately be needed to complete the project. But airport officials said it is enough to begin design and prep work on the site.

No groundbreaking date has been set but the target completion date is fall of 2025, airport spokesperson Erin Burns said.

Part of the timeline depends on funding. Burns could not say where the additional $89 million will come from, but she said airport officials are pursuing several federal infrastructure grants.
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The connector will be a separate roadway on pilings that travels on the east side of the campus. Going north from the south terminal, it will be positioned between the current airport access road and fence line, then snake around a runway to the north terminal.
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