Alaska Airlines breaks ground on US$40m Anchorage hangar

Alaska Airlines formally broke ground Monday on construction of a US$40m aircraft maintenance hangar in Anchorage. Officials with the airline say the planned 105,000-square-foot structure is part of a $100m investment in Alaska that includes new cargo planes and rural terminal improvements. Monday, airline officials and state and local officials were on hand to unveil the design for the Anchorage hangar, which will be nearly 3 times the size of the current structure. Construction is slated for completion in summer 2018. The project is expected to employ 150 at the height of construction. Anchorage-based architecture firm McCool Carlson Green and general contractor Kiewit were brought in to design and build the hangar. <br/>
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/08/22/us/ap-us-alaska-airlines-anchorage-hangar.html
8/22/16