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Thousands of jobs will be coming to southeast Queens as part of the $13 billion JFK International Airport redevelopment and Governor Cuomo announced the first in a series of initiatives targeting employment opportunities, business opportunities, and training and education resources that will benefit local neighborhoods.
The JFK Redevelopment Community Advisory Council, co-chaired by Congressman Gregory Meeks and Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, will launch a major job recruiting program for the 15,000 jobs at the airport and the 4,000 construction jobs that will be created by the five-year construction program which is scheduled to begin next year.
A new Far Rockaway office at the Rockaway Development and Revitalization Corporation will open in the spring and will have four dedicated staff members focused on connecting local residents to new employment opportunities. Additional outreach and recruiting support staff will be based at the Council for Airport Opportunity’s main Jamaica office.
Other programs will include a second chance employment initiative will be targeted toward formerly incarcerated people, a new science and technology program for 300 local students to steer them toward careers in aviation, and concession opportunities for local retailers and restaurants. Plus, the Port Authority and JFK Airport will roll out extensive training programs to enable small businesses to qualify and compete for other future concession opportunities.
$13 B can build you a brand spanking new, state-of-the-art airport in many places. Here, it'll probably be wasted, basically doing window dressing and the proverbial lipstick on a pig. This is just more pork barrel waste that will enrich corrupt unions and local Democrat politicians.
$13 B can build you a brand spanking new, state-of-the-art airport in many places. Here, it'll probably be wasted, basically doing window dressing and the proverbial lipstick on a pig. This is just more pork barrel waste that will enrich corrupt unions and local Democrat politicians.
They made a mistake in the original design of JFK, in that they set it up as a bunch of disconnected terminals built by individual airlines or groups of them. So instead of one integrated terminal or set of terminals. There's a disconnected mishmash. Occasionally one of the terminals gets renovated and replaced. This has happened with a few of them. I think the new plan is to join a few of them into bigger integrated terminals.
But it's still lipstick on a pig, unless they reorient and add new runways. JFK just doesn't have enough airside capacity. I also don't know how many new gates the proposed redevelopment will add.
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Originally Posted by NJ Brazen_3133
didnt they do a sort of renovation on JFK like a decade ago or so?
They made a mistake in the original design of JFK, in that they set it up as a bunch of disconnected terminals built by individual airlines or groups of them. So instead of one integrated terminal or set of terminals. There's a disconnected mishmash. Occasionally one of the terminals gets renovated and replaced. This has happened with a few of them. I think the new plan is to join a few of them into bigger integrated terminals.
But it's still lipstick on a pig, unless they reorient and add new runways. JFK just doesn't have enough airside capacity. I also don't know how many new gates the proposed redevelopment will add.
What is currently considered optimal runway design? I saw a paper on a circular runway with some tangent lines, but no one’s implemented it.
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