Lansing's Capital City Airport is in the middle of an $11 million expansion, but before that expansion is concluded, the airport will have a new name: The Capital Region International Airport. The new name reflects the airport’s status as an international port.
According to excerpts from the article:
"Over the next five years, we're going to change the whole complexion of the airport," said Robert Selig, executive director of the Capital Region Airport Authority.
The work could start this summer, pending state legislative approval to accept nearly $10.8 million in federal grants for the airport.
That money, along with millions more slated for other Michigan airports, is tied up in the state capital outlay budget. House Democrats and Senate Republicans have been arguing for weeks about whether to include spending for college and university projects along with the airport funds in that budget.
Until that money flows, the projects are stalled, Selig said. And if work doesn't get done this year, costs could rise.
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