Work Begins On New General Aviation Terminal at Chattanooga

From: Chattanooga Times Free Press

As builders start work on a $3.6 million general aviation terminal at Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport, bids by companies seeking to run the facility are due Friday.

Work at the terminal, part of the biggest building project at the airport in nearly two decades, is to be in "full swing" this week, said Jeff Morgan, president of Morgan Construction Co.

Morgan is raising the 9,000-square-foot terminal along with Paris Construction and said it should be finished by late summer 2011.

The terminal is the first phase of $10 million in planned facilities, which include a fuel farm and hangar space, on the west side of the main runway at the airport.

Meanwhile, bids by companies seeking to operate the new facilities are due Friday, said Christina Siebold, an airport spokeswoman. She said a consulting firm hired by the airport will review the bids, conduct interviews and make a recommendation to officials.

"By the end of the year, we should have chosen someone," Siebold said.

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