The Real Story – A Column
EXCLUSIVE: HILLSBORO, OR — A massive $38 million private aircraft hangar “campus” proposed for the eastern edge of the Hillsboro Airport (HIO) is headed for approval in the next 24 hours as the Hillsboro Planning Commission takes on the matter- an airport expansion that will bring 42 new private jets to Hillsboro and is expected to result in approximately 5,544 total aircraft operations per year, which averages to about 462 operations per month. This is a BIG DEAL, and yet no one is talking about it. Have you seen your City leaders, our Mayor, or the City View mailer informing you about this? No, I didn’t think so.
The project, spearheaded by the New York-based Sky Harbour Group (NYSE: SKYH), aims to build six sprawling hangars across 13.14 acres to house up to 42 ultra-long-range business jets. But while the applicant describes the development as a state-of-the-art “home base” for Oregon’s corporate elite, local opposition is calling it a “concrete fortress” that seeks to bypass the very city codes designed to protect Hillsboro’s neighborhoods and the Brookwood Parkway visual corridor…