Huntington Tri-State Airport (MERGED)

[War-Lord]

Originally Posted by aeros71

There's not much room to expand the road as much of it has a drop off on one side and a steep rock/hillside on the other.

Yea that’s what I thought unless they make a new road past the fedex building over the hill. There’s not much room for anything up there.

[tbailey1138]

This is the best explanation I saw in the article:

“It’s essentially going to shift our access road to the west, allowing us to square off our current parking lot, which will allow us a better footprint to build a parking structure while at the same time lowering our current overflow lot which is on top of the hill. And it’ll create almost another 400 parking spaces for for our overflow lot,” Brown explained.

[aeros71]

It sounds like the project will either cut into the hillside, and remove the two curves right before the airport's parking lot, or might even take the land from FedEx and come up that side of the property. A project map would be helpful to visualize the changes.


Given the amount of passenger traffic at Tri-State, it's hard to understand why the airport needs another 400 parking spots. A new parking structure to replace the current parking lot? Sure. But there's now way another 400 additional spots is needed.

[tbailey1138]

Huntington Tristate receives funding to complete new master plan:

https://www.herald-dispatch.com/busi...62dade40d.html