Construction for a $13 million taxiway improvement at Delaware Coastal Airport in Georgetown is expected to start early 2025 with a combination of federal and Sussex County money.
The Delaware Coastal Airport Advisory Committee met Sept. 25, for an update on the six-phase project that is planned to begin in March with $3.4 million in grant money.
The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to provide about $3 million per year through airport improvement entitlement money, said Robert Bryant, airport manager.
The county share is about $1.3 million in what he describes as a multi-phase, multi-grant and multi-year taxiway construction project that will build a full-length, 35-foot-wide taxiway for the primary runway.
“We figure this time next year, we’ll get a third FAA grant that will construct Phase 3 of the project,” he said.
Bryant said he hopes that the project will be complete for 2026 or 2027.
Melissa Steele is a staff writer covering the state Legislature, government and police. Her newspaper career spans more than 30 years and includes working for the Delaware State News, Burlington County Times, The News Journal, Dover Post and Milford Beacon before coming to the Cape Gazette in 2012. Her work has received numerous awards, most notably a Pulitzer Prize-adjudicated investigative piece, and a runner-up for the MDDC James S. Keat Freedom of Information Award.