Here is the template for the proposed replacement airport. See posts below to compare with what's already on the ground, and make your own evaluation of the true potential for economic development .
Economic Potential is a hollow promise
Here is the template for the proposed replacement airport. See posts below to compare with what's already on the ground, and make your own evaluation of the true potential for economic development .
Executive Airport Still Awaits Development
You can barely find the outline of this 51-year-old airport among the verdant fields. Owned by Hamilton County Board of Aviation Commissioners, this airport lies only 14 miles NW of Indianapolis.
Whatever happened to "if you build it, they will come"? Photo: 2007
Fledgling airport displays little growth
Situated in rural Hendricks County, this young airport is only 13 miles West of Indianapolis. It is owned by the Indianapolis Airport Authority. In its six years of operation, little - if any - growth has developed around it. Photo: 2007
Mt. Comfort's Open Arms
Mt. Comfort Airport has been nestled in an attractive rural setting for the last 30 years. It is only 12 miles East of Indianapolis and is owned by the Indianapolis Airport Authority (IAA).
Friday, August 17, the IAA authorized more than $30,000 for a design study to rehabilitate Taxiway "A".
Photo: 2007
To make way for better economic success, Fishers jettisons airport
Indianapolis Metropolitan Airport (Fishers), owned by the Indianapolis Airport Authority, is 46 years old and 8 miles NE of Indianapolis. Blessed with a lucky confluence of I-69, 37 and Geist Reservoir, Fishers saw ballooning growth as Indianapolis sprawled north. Not only did the airport have little to do with the growth, it is actually a hindrance to Fishers' expansion. Surely if the airport were a keystone of their economic success, Fishers would fight to keep it. Instead, they want to be rid of it. No jobs worth keeping, here.Photo: 2007
If you build it, will they come?
Anderson Airport is located 3 miles East of Anderson. Growth around the airport is almost exclusively residential. Owned by the City of Anderson, this 48-year-old airport was built in 1959, and lived through GM's golden age. If it were ever going to develop industry for the City, it would surely have done so by now.
Sadly, it seems to some that the City has willfully neglected this airport.
According to the latest at BOAC, there were 2,513 less flights in 2007 year-to-date than during the same time period in 2006. Airports, therefore, do not equate with jobs on the scale politicians promise. Photo: 2007
South Madison Community School Board Opposes Airport
On Thurday, August 16, the South Madison Community School Board of Trustees voted unanimously to oppose the possible relocation of an airport into Green and Stony Creek Townships in southern Madison County.
Superintendent Dr. Tom Warmke shared information on the possible loss of $114,000 per year in tax support for the school system, at 2006 tax rates.
Board members deplored the secrecy shrouding the entire process. One refused an invitation to a clandestine meeting.
"Good projects come in the front door," said another board member, paraphrasing a comment heard at Commissioner Paul Wilson's July 31st meeting.
Recent aerial photos of five relief airports around the Indianapolis International Airport, including Anderson, Mt. Comfort, Fishers Metropolitan and others, were shown. Though some of the airports have been in place for 30, 51 and 56 years, little development has occurred. The person who distributed the photos commented that only Fishers Airport shows surrounding growth, but that the growth has not been due to the airport; in fact, the Fishers Airport is preventing further growth, which is why Fishers Town Council is trying to get rid of it.
One board member shared her concern that the withdrawal of 4,000 acres from the tax rolls due to airport and TIF grants would cause current taxpayers to shoulder additional tax burden just to keep the school system at its current level.
She also noted scientific research finding that students in schools located within a certain radius of an airport suffered significant drops in reading scores on standardized tests. Since the Board had recently voted to spend $500,000 on a state-of-the-art reading improvement program, it was critical to oppose a project which could nullify the positive effects of the program.
Superintendent Dr. Tom Warmke shared information on the possible loss of $114,000 per year in tax support for the school system, at 2006 tax rates.
Board members deplored the secrecy shrouding the entire process. One refused an invitation to a clandestine meeting.
"Good projects come in the front door," said another board member, paraphrasing a comment heard at Commissioner Paul Wilson's July 31st meeting.
Recent aerial photos of five relief airports around the Indianapolis International Airport, including Anderson, Mt. Comfort, Fishers Metropolitan and others, were shown. Though some of the airports have been in place for 30, 51 and 56 years, little development has occurred. The person who distributed the photos commented that only Fishers Airport shows surrounding growth, but that the growth has not been due to the airport; in fact, the Fishers Airport is preventing further growth, which is why Fishers Town Council is trying to get rid of it.
One board member shared her concern that the withdrawal of 4,000 acres from the tax rolls due to airport and TIF grants would cause current taxpayers to shoulder additional tax burden just to keep the school system at its current level.
She also noted scientific research finding that students in schools located within a certain radius of an airport suffered significant drops in reading scores on standardized tests. Since the Board had recently voted to spend $500,000 on a state-of-the-art reading improvement program, it was critical to oppose a project which could nullify the positive effects of the program.
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