TO SUPPORT ITS $500 CONOMIC IMPACT Northeast Philadelphia Airport is undergoing its most ambitious infrastructure transformation in decades, with multiple construction projects reshaping the facility that generates nearly half a billion in annual economic impact for the region.Airport Manager John Brewer oversees a complex web of simultaneous improvements designed to modernize the 1,150-acre general aviation hub that ranks as Pennsylvania’s third busiest airport. “We have what we call Lima Package three, which is the final package of rehabilitating taxiway Lima,” Brewer explains. “Once we get done with Lima package three, that parallel for runway 6-24 will be a 50-foot-wide taxiway with 20-foot shoulders. We haven’t had shoulders on our taxiways. Now we’re actually getting shoulders on them, so we’ll have lights and signs on the pavement.” The infrastructure push includes comprehensive security upgrades. The airport is replacing AULS, SUSTAINABILITY GOALS, AND NIA’S THIRD BUSIEST AIRPORT. 70 AVIATION VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 05, ISSUE 02
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