CLEVELAND — Another year of aerial acrobatics concluded at the Cleveland National Air Show over Labor Day weekend. However, questions about the future of Burke Lakefront Airport continue to linger as city officials weigh potential development opportunities.

Last year, just a couple of weeks after the 2024 air show, two studies commissioned by Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration were released, making a case for closing Burke in favor of using the lakefront for other development and arguing that the possible economic loss doesn't outweigh the potential upside of development on the prime real estate.

"Can we close Burke? We think we can,” Jeff Epstein, the mayor’s chief of integrated development, said during an interview in September 2024. “We’re going to work as quickly as we can to get to

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