- Weber County officials are mulling expansion of the inland port project area in the county to include land around Ogden-Hinckley Airport.
- The expansion on some 80 acres of unincorporated land would aim to support aerospace manufacturing and defense contractors near the airport.
- County officials delayed action to further refine the proposal, which state inland port officials would have to approve.
OGDEN — Weber County authorities want to expand the inland port project area in the county to include 80-plus acres adjacent to Ogden-Hinckley Airport for potential use by defense contractors and other manufacturing operations.
“It really is a good faith effort in our vision to help support Ogden city’s airport project grow and be successful,” said Stephanie Russell, the Weber County economic development director. Ogden officials have lofty aspirations to upgrade the Ogden airport, promote its use and foster development in and around the city-owned facility.
Developers are potentially interested in using part of the unincorporated land around the airport, Russell said, and folding it into the expansive West Weber Inland Port Project Area in the western reaches of the county might be a mechanism to prod the effort forward. The 9,000-acre inland port area was created in 2024 within the framework of the Utah Inland Port Authority, a state entity formed to promote economic development through its various project areas around Utah…