roswell airport to see wide array of facility improvements

The City of Roswell has issued a Request for Proposals for engineering services at the busy and growing 5,000-acre Roswell International Air Center.

The RFP has a submission deadline of June 23.

Those services could entail a one-year contract, with the possibility of extensions, and will take in the eventual rehabilitation of eight taxiway asphalt shoulders; as well as the reconstruction of runways 17 and 35.

Work may also include the widening of taxiway B and the rehabilitation of the air center’s terminal.

Also in the planning stage: the widening of an east perimeter road; the reconstruction and expansion of the terminal’s parking space; and a drainage study preceding future drainage improvements at the site.

It is thought that many of the planned facility projects will be paid for wholly or in part through federal funds.
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Due to the COVID-19 outbreak and the downturn in air service traffic, the Roswell International Air Center is currently storing more than 300 planes from a variety of commercial airliners—the largest number of planes the airport has hosted in its more than 75-year history.

​By Garry Boulard

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