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Ground Breaks for $25M US Airways Center

PITTSBURGH-Hard-won efforts to land the 60,000-sf flight operations control center bear fruit with groundbreaking on a 10-acre site in Moon Township.

By Marita Thomas | Updated on September 24, 2007

PITTSBURGH-US Airways Inc. has broken ground for a 60,000-sf flight operations control center on 10 acres in Moon Township adjacent to Pittsburgh International Airport. The project cost is $25 million, and the building is expected to be fully operational in early 2009.

Pennsylvania competed fiercely against proposed locations in Phoenix and Charlotte, NC, as GlobeSt.com previously reported. An $11-million incentive package helped “seal the deal,” says Gov. Ed Rendell, who credits Allegheny County principals and the airport authority with partnering in assembling the package.

It includes a loan of up to $4 million from the state’s machinery and equipment loan fund, up to $2 million in opportunity grants, a $2-million loan from the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority, up to nearly $1.3 million in infrastructure development grants, up to $1 million in customized job training funds, and about $750,000 in job creation tax credits. The airline is also eligible to apply for a $6-million low-cost loan from the Citizens Bank job bank program.

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