St. Cloud Regional Airport is aiming to expand hangers as increase in demand goes up as well as taxi lane rehabilitation.

According to Jenny Berg from the St. Cloud Times, some of the upgrades include expansions of hangers to allow more individual renters. This expansion is expected to cost about $297,000 and the Federal Aviation Association along with MnDot will pay for 95 percent of the expansion leaving roughly $15,000 for the city of St. Cloud.

Also planned is rehabilitation of the taxi-lane which is an area of pavement where planes head from the hanger to the taxi-way. Lastly they will reconfigure their taxi-way to the Federal Aviation Association standards. The taxi-way is a strip of pavement aircraft take to get to the runway.

The cost for the taxi-way is $174,500 and the city will be responsible for paying about $9,000 and the remaining project for the taxi-lane is estimated to be at $78,500.

The projects will be serviced by Mead and Hund Inc. based out of Wisconsin and they will be designed over this next winter and construction is expected to commence in spring of 2018.