The Pullman City Council on Tuesday agreed it is willing to contribute $2 million to the new Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport terminal.
The terminal is estimated to cost $61 million. Of that amount, $51 million will come from federal funding, including CARES Act dollars. The airport is working to raise $6.1 million from local partners. Pullman and Moscow will each contribute $2 million while the airport tries to raise money from other local entities such as Washington State University, University of Idaho, and Whitman and Latah counties.
Pullman City Administrator Mike Urban said Pullman could use $700,000 in grant money from the city’s Lodging Tax Advisory Committee to help fund the terminal. That grant money was originally intended to fund the Lawson Garden House event center, but that project fell out of favor with the City Council because of rising construction costs. Urban also said $800,000 in American Rescue Plan Act dollars can be spent on the terminal’s stormwater infrastructure cost.
The proposed 38,000-square-foot terminal is expected to be completed by 2023. (Lewiston Tribune)
