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What's up with Charles Wheeler downtown airport? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 11 months ago by someguy3@lemmy.ca to c/kansascity@midwest.social
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I'm bumming around on Google maps and saw this. Is it used much? Is it planned to shut down? Seems like it's a pain for everyone that has to put up with the noise.

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[–] flug@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There has been some recent talk about repurposing it. Not only does it use a huge chunk of ground right in the middle of the downtown area - some of the most valuable land in the state - but also it puts crimp on the height of buildings in the whole area surrounding airport itself.

So I don't know how serious it is, but I've been hearing some chatter.

[–] flug@midwest.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Here's the article:

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article278281138.html

It’s something Kansas City Manager Brian Platt has been saying privately for nearly two years, and now he’s acknowledging it on the record: He would push to close Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport if it continues to be hard for developers to construct high-rise apartment buildings in the airport’s flight paths over River Market and downtown.

That would be an unpopular move among the top Kansas City businesses that use the airport . . .