After almost a year of study, consultants hired to analyze the Albany Municipal Airport have submitted their final report. The way I read it, the city is likely to keep its airport even though it doesn’t make money.
The city’s Airport Advisory Commission on Wednesday heard from Matt Craigie of ECOnorthwest, the firm the city council hired last year for $113,469 to look into what else might be done with the airfield the city has owned since 1929.
The consulants considered, in detail, preserving airport operations as now, enhancing them by various means, or modifying them by making a corner of the site available for something that would not interfere with airport operations…