Airports
Local Groups Band Together To Support Lakefront Airport
Groups point to $195 million in economic contribution
Burke Lakefront Airport on the shores of Lake Erie in Cleveland
Cleveland's City Council will review new studies examining the potential impacts of the closure of Burke Lakefront Airport. © GRALISTAIR, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A coalition of more than 50 Cleveland-area business, education, and civic leaders is urging the Cleveland City Council to keep Burke Lakefront Airport (KBKL) open. Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb has proposed closing the airport and redeveloping the area as parkland and for commercial use.

“While we understand the desire to explore lakefront development, BKL is not ‘underutilized land’—it is a high-functioning transportation hub and an economic engine,” the leaders wrote in a letter to the city council. “Closing this airport would not only disrupt regional commerce but would create a permanent void in Cleveland’s infrastructure that can never be replaced.”

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