REDMOND, OR -- Redmond Airport is getting more federal grant money. Airport Director Zach Bass tells KBND News funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law-Airport Terminals Program will help with the terminal building expansion project, “We've been planning for the last four or five years for this expansion. And as we can tell by this grant of $7-million we're reaching out to get financing in any way possible. It's a small portion, but it's important. It does give us the opportunity to do some things we might not have been able to do without it.”

The project will double the terminal’s size over five phases. “Right now, the project is estimated to cost about $150-million or so. We are going to be moving forward with the expansion late this summer, or early fall. The project will have jet bridges, a new concourse expanded capabilities for baggage systems. And all the money that we receive helps kind of get us to the finish line,” Bass says, adding the airport continues to look for more funding. “We are in the process of putting in a $10 million grant with the state and we keep talking with the Feds about some other opportunities over the next few years. So, we always have grants somewhere in the pipeline, either in the application or in the review period.”