The Akron-Canton Airport has broken ground on a $6.7 million infrastructure project that will build a new aircraft apron on the airport’s west side in Green, the airport announced on Monday, November 2, according to The Canton Repository.
The apron — the paved area where aircraft park, load and maneuver away from the terminal gates — is the kind of unglamorous concrete that decides what an airport can do next. Airport officials say the new west-side infrastructure is expected to help attract up to $20 million in private investment, support more than 50 new full-time jobs and potentially enable the opening of an educational facility, The Canton Repository reported. Market-rate hangar space will also be created as part of the project.
“Today’s groundbreaking is an investment in the future of CAK and Northeast Ohio,” airport president and CEO Ren Camacho said in a prepared statement reported by The Canton Repository…