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Gary-Chicago Airport Delays Runway Expansion

By Mark Huber • Contributor

September 3, 2013

Plans to expand the main runway at Chicago’s third commercial airport have hit another delay. The latest estimate now places completion in September next year.

The $167 million plan to lengthen Runway 12/30 and adjacent taxiway to 8,900 feet from 7,000 feet at Gary-Chicago International Airport (KGYY) in Gary, Ind., is stumbling in the wake of more extensive environmental remediation than initially anticipated; intransigence from railroads whose tracks must be relocated; the exodus last month of the airport’s lone airline, Allegiant; the possible exit of the airport’s most prestigious corporate tenant, Boeing; and the failure of the airport to attract up to $100 million more in private-sector financing for ancillary facilities.

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