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Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority accepts Marcy Excavating bid for airport expansion work

Posted 7/30/15

By JIMMY LAWTON OGDENSBURG – Ogdensburg Bridge & Port Authority has selected Marcy Excavating, Frankfort, to perform the $17.5 million airport expansion project. Marcy Excavating bid the job at …

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Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority accepts Marcy Excavating bid for airport expansion work

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By JIMMY LAWTON

OGDENSBURG – Ogdensburg Bridge & Port Authority has selected Marcy Excavating, Frankfort, to perform the $17.5 million airport expansion project.

Marcy Excavating bid the job at $15,882,976.25 and also included two alternatives for the parking lot and gas line projects. Bids for those projects were $1,317,874.70 and $350,000 respectively.

In a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration the OBPA requested $16.23 million as the 95 percent share the FFA agreed to pay toward the expansion. The remaining 5 percent will be split between the OBPA and the Department of Transportation.

The airport improvement project will expand the runway and allow 177-passenger planes to land in and fly out of the city. Initially flights will be from Allegiant Air, an airline that invested $1 million in the expansion project.

The plan calls for a 1,200-foot expansion of the airport’s runway and involves moving a portion of Route 68. Davis said there have been endless hurtles for the project, but nearly all have been cleared.

OBPA Executive Director Wade Davis said the project is ambitious as the OBPA is attempting to complete a 10-year project in a two-year timeline.

According to Davis the expansion will bring an estimated 38,000 visitors to the city annually and will account for millions of dollars in economic impact.

The project will be 95 percent funded by the Federal Aviation Administration with the Department of Transportation and OBPA each supplying 2.5 percent.

Davis said an additional $3 million from the OBPA will be used for a 3,600 square foot terminal expansion, which will be necessary in order to accommodate the larger volume of passengers. Additionally the OBPA will install a 478-space parking lot.