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Airport, Family Dollar main city focuses
Brad Sweet
DAVENPORT-The city has maintained the status quo after approving a budget in the black while looking ahead to a couple key projects in 2022, mayor Brad Sweet said in a yearly outlook interview with The Times.
High on the priority list here is finishing construction at the municipal airport and beginning construction on the somewhat controversial Family Dollar store going into the old Lyon's Park site between First, Second, Morgan and Logan Streets.
Sweet said the city is looking to sign a lease agreement with AirLift Northwest, a nonprofit owned by the University of Washington School of Medicine, to build a hangar at the airport.
"It would be to provide air ambulance services," Sweet said. "They even talked about beginning construction, maybe by March."
Sweet said the city hopes to lease all the hangars at the airport by this summer.
Family Dollar construction has been steadily pushed back since the city sold the property to Brian Anderson of Utah for $75,000 in Fall 2020. Sweet said the latest he's heard is beginning construction this spring once winter weather subsides.
"I heard they're actually constructing the building itself elsewhere and will transport it here," Sweet said. "And it's possible the Family Dollar will be open by this summer."
The city is beginning water shutoffs for customers who fail to make a payment plan or make payments straight up beginning Jan. 12. This is the next main undertaking for the city, Sweet said.
Sweet and Davenport's city council next meet Jan. 12 in City Hall at 7 p.m.
Drew Lawson is the editor of the Davenport Times. He is a graduate of Eastern Washington University.
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