Tweed New Haven Airport’s operators announced this week that construction should begin next year — and wrap up by 2028 — on a long-delayed expansion project that has ballooned in cost to $250 million. The top lawyer at a local environmental nonprofit and the mayor of East Haven, meanwhile, expressed skepticism about that timeline — as they voiced long-standing concerns around the project’s impact on the surrounding environment and residential neighborhood. At the center of that plan is the construction of a new terminal on the East Haven side of the Morris Cove airport property as well as the extension of the airport’s main runway by nearly 1,000 feet in order to attract more commercial air service. According to Tuesday’s press release, the airport expansion project is now expected to cost $250 million. Back when the project was first announced in 2021, the estimated price tag was $70 million.
Tweed Announces 2026 Construction Start
