Citing the global economic crisis a housing development in Lacombe, Alberta, Canada, is being delayed from a lack of interest. Interestingly, the Town Council has elected to continue development of a proposed airpark adjacent to the Lacombe airport.
While only 12 applicants were interested in the original 41 residential lots (at below market prices), 18 individuals are interested in the airpark component of the project.
Click here to read the complete story from the Lacombe Globe.
Bob Banman’s hangar-condo project at the Santa Paula (Calif.) airport is garnering a great deal of press. Earlier this week The Huffington Post ran a story, now the San Francisco Chronicle picked up the story and ran it both online and on page B-6 of the print edition.
An October 25 story posted on The Huffington Post reports on the airpark project at the Santa Paula, California airport. Read the full story here.
Editor’s note: For many years Dave Sclair, retired GANews publisher and founder of Living With Your Plane, has spoken at Oshkosh about residential airparks. Some of the questions that always come up during his session year after year probably are ones you’ve wondered about, too.
Question - I’m trying to determine if I can successfully develop a residential airpark in my community. What do you think is the critical number of homesites needed for a fly-in community to work? Is there an optimum size of the lots and how many acres do I need for the runway and related taxiways, roads, etc? Read the full story
If you ever thought you wanted to get in on the ground floor of a project that could have enormous impact upon the aviation industry and a region of the country, here’s an idea from a New Mexico developer that you might want to examine.
Greg Neal of Hot Springs Land Development in Truth or Consequences, NM, says his firm is “looking for a group of professionals with an aviation background that share our excitement for developing, owning and operating a residential airpark that is in close proximity to the features and amenities that exist, are under development or planned for the future.”
Airport project faces vote
By Cara O’Brien
Loveland Reporter-HeraldTuesday night the Loveland City Council will vote on an agreement allowing airport access for Martin Lind’s proposed Airpark of the Rockies project.
The agreement, called a through-the-fence agreement, would allow planes to move from the property of the Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport to the two properties Lind intends to develop around the airport. Read the full story
The following story appears at the Navada Appeal website:
Dayton Airpark projects take flight
By Nevada Appeal News Service
Looking past the current storms in the housing market, the Dayton Airpark (Details - paid subscription required for Full Access), a Wade Lakemont development, is moving onto the runway.
“Nothing happens quickly. We want to get ahead of the market,” says Doug Thorngren, whose Reno-based Silverado Properties is providing consulting and marketing services on the project. Centerpiece of the development at the south edge of the Lyon County community is a privately owned 5,400-foot airstrip. Rebuilt within the past two years, the runway can handle planes as large as medium-sized jets. Read the full story
Wayne Thompson wrote in The New Zealand Herald (January 2008) that an airpark developer wants to build eight lots next to Kaipara Flats Airfield.
Pilots want eight fly-in homes
By Wayne Thompson
The idea of living with your aeroplane is taking off in rural Auckland where an American-style air park is proposed for a little-used private airstrip.
“People who are into light aviation are similar in an emotional sense to boaties whose ultimate is to step from their waterways home on to their boat,” said Tiger Moth owner Jim Schmidt, of Warkworth. Read the full story
PRWEB — The Pegasus Group announces the Grand Opening of the Big South Fork Tennessee Airpark and Equestrian Community. An exclusive aviation and equestrian community (click here to see complete airpark data, subscription required) in eastern Tennessee, this airpark was inspired by the rustic beauty of Scott County and the surrounding Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. The vision is to create a 450-acre dreamscape for plane and horse lovers alike.
Kathy Knight reports on her Real Estate Blog that…
The FAA just approved the addition of an airstrip to the Sandy Creek area of Brunswick county (Wilmington, N.C. area). Builders will start this project soon upon closing on the land and expect to have the runway and several hangars complete by August 2009. Pilots call me (Kathy Knight) and I will be happy to provide you with information if you are looking for hangar space or an airpark lot. Sandy Creek Airpark will be located at 3199 Maco Road, minutes from downtown Wilmington. Sandy Creek intends to offer more in the way of commercial and hangar space. By the completion of the project there will be a repair facility, fuel and restaurant at the location.
Residential Flying lots are available for $100,000. You can build a fly-in home in this community.
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