Gary Airport Adding Corporate Hangar
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowThe Gary/Chicago International Airport is planning to build a new corporate hangar. Our partners at The Times of Northwest Indiana report the airport authority board has voted to enter negotiations with Burling Builders of Chicago to construct the East Corporate Hangar, which is expected to cost about $1.3 million.
Interior finishing work on the hangar would be included in another contract. The publication says the goal is to complete the project by this fall. The hanger would be leased to a corporate tenant, though the airport did not reveal any information about who that tenant could be.
Duane Hayden, executive director of the Gary/Chicago International Airport, tells The Times the hangar will be built on vacant, but development-ready land at the southeast end of the row of existing hangars. He says the facility fits the airport’s master plan.
The corporate hangar will come in addition to the Gary Jet Center’s $3 million Corporate Flight Center, which opened last fall at the GJC’s Fixed Base Operation at the airport.
Meanwhile, work continues on the new U.S. Customs and Border Patrol facility, which received its final regulatory approval in August. The facility is expected to open in mid-to-late June, according to the publication.