What's up with Charles Wheeler downtown airport? - eviltoast

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.

  • flug@midwest.social
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    1 year 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 . . .