{"id":95651,"date":"2019-02-13T11:50:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T18:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-airport-approved-for-3-9-million-land-purchase-2\/"},"modified":"2019-02-13T11:50:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T18:50:30","slug":"durango-airport-approved-for-3-9-million-land-purchase-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-airport-approved-for-3-9-million-land-purchase-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango airport approved for $3.9 million land purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- Missing image mapping. {\"id\":217788,\"url\":\"\/\/dur-cjweb.newscyclecloud.com\/storyimage\/CJ\/20190213\/NEWS01\/190219946\/AR\/0\/AR-190219946.jpg\",\"caption_title\":\"\",\"caption\":\"Tony Vicari, director of Durango-La Plata County Airport, stands Tuesday on land the airport will buy from Koinonia Properties LLC. The 12.5-acre parcel will be used for passenger vehicle parking among other purposes, which could free up land for a possible terminal expansion.\",\"article_id\":127626,\"factbox_id\":null,\"photo_byline\":\"Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald\",\"alt_text\":null,\"orientation_landscape\":true,\"in_article\":false,\"is_square\":false,\"gallery_id\":null,\"created_at\":\"2019-02-13T11:50:30.000-07:00\",\"updated_at\":\"2019-02-13T11:50:30.000-07:00\",\"width\":1600,\"height\":987,\"order\":null,\"photo_sales\":false,\"special_report_id\":null,\"durango_coupon_id\":null,\"guid\":null,\"naviga_url\":null} --><\/p>\n<p>Durango-La Plata County Airport has been given the green light to pursue a $3.9 million purchase of 12.5 acres to help meet future expansion needs.<\/p>\n<p>La Plata County commissioners on Tuesday unanimously authorized the airport to enter the contract agreement. Durango city councilors approved the matter last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/261466\">The proposed expansion was announced earlier this month<\/a>, which would have the airport acquire the property adjacent to the airport, on the northeast side.<\/p>\n<p>The purchase will be funded by existing fees from the \u201cPassenger Facility Charge,\u201d a $4.50 fee assessed to every airport passenger. That way, the expansion would be funded entirely by people who use the airport, said airport director Tony Vicari.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Missing image mapping. {\"id\":217789,\"url\":\"\/\/dur-cjweb.newscyclecloud.com\/storyimage\/CJ\/20190213\/NEWS01\/190219946\/EP\/1\/1\/EP-190219946.jpg\",\"caption_title\":\"\",\"caption\":\"Durango-La Plata County Airport Director Tony Vicari said land being purchased adjacent to the terminal will likely be used to expand passenger vehicle parking, rental car facilities and a circulation road or airport road realignment, which could free up land for a possible terminal expansion.\",\"article_id\":127626,\"factbox_id\":null,\"photo_byline\":\"Courtesy of Durango-La Plata County Airport\",\"alt_text\":null,\"orientation_landscape\":true,\"in_article\":false,\"is_square\":false,\"gallery_id\":null,\"created_at\":\"2019-02-13T11:50:30.000-07:00\",\"updated_at\":\"2019-02-13T11:50:30.000-07:00\",\"width\":1248,\"height\":940,\"order\":null,\"photo_sales\":false,\"special_report_id\":null,\"durango_coupon_id\":null,\"guid\":null,\"naviga_url\":null} --><\/p>\n<p>Vicari said for at least two years, while long-term plans for the property are sorted out, the airport will continue to lease the buildings to Crossfire, bringing in about $12,000 to $16,000 a month.<\/p>\n<p>Vicari also said about 92 percent of the purchasing price is eligible for a reimbursement from the Federal Aviation Administration.<\/p>\n<p>The land is likely going to be used for passenger vehicle parking expansion, rental car facilities and a circulation road or airport road realignment, which could open land for possible terminal expansion, Vicari said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Property will allow for future expansion of terminal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[1020,915,1680],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-95651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-durango-city-council","tag-durango-la-plata-county-airport","tag-la-plata-county-commissioners"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95651"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=95651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}