CALDWELL, Idaho — This story originally appeared in the Idaho Press.

The Caldwell Executive Airport hopes to construct an air traffic control tower, extend its runway and add a new restaurant, its executive director Scott Swanson told the city council last week.

“What we are asking over a three-year, four-year time period is $3 million to be invested into the airport,” Swanson said, during his Sept. 15 presentation of the airport’s three-year strategic plan. “Most of that money would get contributed to the north side of the airport to put down infrastructure, pavement for taxi lanes, essentially making that area shovel-ready to entice larger entities, bigger users and businesses to come in.”

The airport is already the busiest in Idaho, with an 11% increase in traffic from 2010 to 2020

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