Miami Airport Reveals $1.3 Billion Wish List on Top of $6 Billion Expansion.

Publication: The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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Byline: Tyler Bridges

May 27--On top of an expansion program now forecast to cost $6 billion, Miami International Airport has an additional $1.3 billion worth of projects that need funding, a new staff analysis shows.

The projects would repair and upgrade existing facilities as well as add to the airport's expansion, said Angela Gittens, MIA's director.

The analysis confirms a report from earlier this year that MIA's expansion will cost $6 billion, not the $5.4 billion previously forecast, and also creates the $1.3 billion laundry list of additional items that are needed by 2010.

"It's something we should have done some time ago," said...

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