Business leaders hope to seize surging momentum for the South Suburban Airport and clear political hurdles that have kept the project grounded, writes Ted Slowik.
Bult Field in Monee, a possible site for the South Suburban Airport.
To date, Will County farmers, environmentalists and other opponents have won the narrative that buying land and building roads for the Peotone airport was a boondoggle. For too long, airport opponents convinced political leaders that Peotone deserved a wait-and-see approach. Doubt loomed like storm clouds. Maybe the state should cut its losses and sell the nearly 5,000 acres it spent $100 million to acquire.Ironically, naysayers have succeeded in squelching the project so far by insisting that no one would use the airport and that no developer would want to join the state in a public-private partnership to invest in building the airport.
“Companies want to be located near airports,” Bryant said. “Right now transportation comprises 45% to 70% of supply chain costs.”
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