LFT Airport Update

Lafayette Regional Airport’s new terminal project is making plodding progress, some 50 supporters learned Thursday, with a likely completion date in 2020.

Paul Guilbeau, the airport’s commission chairman; Steven Picou, airport executive director; and One Acadiana President Jason El Koubi, a community partner on the project, were among speakers at a Thursday morning information meeting at Bell Helicopter who related benchmarks met and remaining to build the 107,520 square-foot terminal on ground adjacent to the current terminal.

The new facility will be able to accommodate as many as five commercial airline gates — there will be room for expansion, proponents said — and will cost some $90 million, about a third of which was generated in 2015 through a taxpayer-approved, 1-cent sales tax launched in April 2015 and completed eight months later.

Guilbeau suggested that groundwork for the project was taking “longer than anticipated,” although architects and engineers have been hired.

Read Full Article »