Sugar Land Regional Airport — Runway Reconstruction Project Site
Sugar Land City Council voted unanimously last Tuesday to approve a $39.21 million construction contract with Austin Bridge & Road Inc. to rebuild Runway 17-35, the only runway at Sugar Land Regional Airport, kicking off a years-in-the-making project that will shut the runway down completely for a month in 2027. The council also accepted $16.06 million in new grant funding for the project and signed off on a separate $2.53 million contract with Pape-Dawson to oversee construction.
The runway, built in 1985, has reached the end of its useful life, according to facts reported by Community Impact, which notes it now requires more than 3,000 patches and daily maintenance just to stay operational. Mitchell Davies, the airport’s director of aviation, called the contract approval a major milestone after years of work, per the same report. City staff have been working toward this reconstruction for about a decade, the outlet notes…