Expansion of Green

             The expansion of T.F. Green Airport has been a widely discussed topic ever since 1997. T.F. Green as of today has a runway of 7,200 feet and there are plans in the works to extend this runway to 9,500 feet in the near future. In order to open this airport up for international and coast to coast travel the main runway needs to be extended at least 2,300 feet. This lengthening of the runway would require the moving of both Airport Road and Main Avenue as well as the condeming of over 360 houses. This propsosal has caused many problems throughout the city of Warwick and there has been much talk of how to keep both the residents of Warwick and bussiness's happy. Two airport consultants Landrum and Brown have proposed three plans for the airport expansion. The intial proposal in 1997 was going to take 20 years to complete, but recent studies reveal that the airport needs to be expanded immediatly. "Current market conditions, industry changes and bussiness demands have casued us to reevaluate our runway options." says Brown. Just recently Landum and Brown had came up with three more expansion proposals. Hopefully one of which would satisfy Mayor Avedisian and the city council. However Mayor Avedisian criticized each plan becasue they all required the relocation of either Main Avenue or Airport Road and also the condeming of at least 300 houses. Mayor Avedisian criticized these plans by saying, "Thy're again proposing major breaks in cohesive neighborhoods that would create extensive tracks of fallow property and dead-end streets." Avedisian closed his criticism by saying "Its difficult to stand by and watch major neighborhoods being bulldozed." Allthough all three proposals still require the condeming of houses and the relocation of two main access roads, Mayor Avedisian likes the fact that the new plans do not require the destruction of the wet lands(Landrum, Brown 2)1.
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