2025 Airport Construction Projects

Each year the Airport plans and schedules construction projects concerning the airfield, airport grounds and airport buildings. Most of these projects are included in the Airport's approved Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP).   A copy of the approved CIP is available in the Document Center.

The Airport Construction Projects planned for the 2025 construction season are:

• Overlook Drive Rehabilitation Project. This project includes the pavement rehabilitation of an existing service road on the west end of the Airport that is 3,600 feet long, has approximately 100,000 square feet of asphalt and is used by tenants and Airport staff to access the airfield through three security access control gates. Overlook Drive is also the primary road for all emergency vehicles including fire, ambulance and police to access the west end of the Airport which includes the Airport Operations Center, Beacon Air Group, large and small aircraft hangars and the car wash and fueling facilities for all on-airport rental car companies. A contractor will mill 2 inches of the existing asphalt surface off and replace with a new 2 inch asphalt overlay. The existing road is at the end of its useful life, over 20 years old and needs to be replaced. The work will take 30 days to complete and the construction estimate is approximately $800,000.
• Runway 7-25 Reconstruction and Extension Project.  This project will reconstruct and extend Runway 7/25. Runway (RWY) 7/25 is the only crosswind runway at the Airport and was originally built in 1991. Although this runway was rehabilitated in 2007 by removing and replacing the top 2 inches of asphalt, RWY 7/25 has exceeded its useful life and needs to be replaced. The existing base course material is over 30 years old recycled asphalt millings that have failed and created large longitudinal and transverse cracks in the pavement surface which is a safety hazard for aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) also identified that the end of RWY 7 intersects the general aviation RWY 10R/28L and no longer meets airfield geometry safety standards. This project will resolve both of these problems by removing and replacing the asphalt surface full depth including the base course material. The end of RWY 7 will be relocated so it no longer intersects RWY 10R/28L and the overall length will increase from 5,501 feet to 6,310 feet allowing larger and heavier aircraft to operate on it. Specifically, 34,385 square yards of runway asphalt will be removed and replaced; 60,000 cubic yards of dirt/rock will be excavated to extend RWY 7; 70,000 cubic yards of fill will be added for the RWY 25 extension and 11,100 square yards of asphalt paving will occur to build a new connector taxiway. Additionally, all of the incandescent runway lighting and informational signs will be replaced with new LED lighting which will utilize less energy and save the Airport money. The construction will take approximately 6 months to complete with work beginning in May and finishing in October of 2025.