Officials at the formerly named Donaldson Center industrial park / airfield have secured $750,000 in federal money for Phase One of a $2 million project designed to update the field for future business.
“I’ve been talking about this for now close to 10 years”
– Peter Cevallos, airport operations manager at SCTAC
We all know it takes money to make money, and just like our neighbors on the coast have to build taller bridges and deeper trenches in the waterways (for their bigger ships), we need to ensure that our local industrial park is up to modern standards for current and foreseeable technologies.
Case in point: the B-3 Taxi Way must be updated to accommodate the P-3 Orions and C-130 Hercules that Lockheed Martin Corp. refurbishes at there. With the annual economic impact to South Carolina that the facility generates – over $220 million – that’s 110x the low maintenance cost we’re paying now.
The SCTAC industrial park is large enough to hold an airstrip and several buildings on the former Air Force base.
Credit: SCTAC
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