Not just any old thing to come here,” Kindle-Walker said. “We want to see aviation-related industry come here. But she told city and airport officials that new development at the site should be strategic - and specific. I think now that we can tell them, that is going to open up a lot of opportunities.”īeverly Kindle-Walker, executive director of Friends of Detroit City Airport, declared herself largely happy with the new plan. “They want to know there was going to be first class facilities and a safe airfield here. “They wanted to know what the future was going to be,” Duggan said. Davis Aerospace-Technical High School back onto airport grounds, and decommission a runway, opening up an additional 80 acres for “airport-related development.”ĭetroit Mayor Mike Duggan said industrial facilities have returned to the surrounding east side neighborhood in recent years, and other companies have shown interest in but wanted assurances about the airport. The plan calls for building new aircraft hangars and a new air traffic control tower. But city officials say this new layout plan, just approved by the Federal Aviation Administration, opens up a world of possibilities - as well as up to $100 million in federal grants. Young Municipal Airport, widely known as City Airport, has been declining and under-utilized for decades. City of Detroit Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan unveiled a new plan for Detroit's City Airport on Thursday.ĭetroit has received federal approval for a plan to put its city airport back on track.

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