EL DORADO -- South Arkansas Regional Airport at Goodwin Field will get an overall restoration.
Commissioners voted in July 2015 to build a terminal for an estimated $2.1 million.
In June, the airport commission agreed to "cease going forward" with the new terminal after facing opposition from local and state historic preservationists, a federal Section 106 Review and a potential Section 4(f) process.
The Section 4(f) stipulates how the Federal Highway Administration and U.S. Department of Transportation may approve the use of certain property, including public or private historic sites.
The airport commission had been presented with two options to address the aging terminal building, which was built in 1948: raze it and build anew, or rehabilitate it for an estimated $1.9 million.
With the option of building a terminal taken off the table, commissioners have fallen back on the restoration plan.
Blake Dunn of CADM Architecture Inc. -- who drafted the two options after an evaluation of the terminal -- will present to airport commissioners in January updated cost figures and revised draft plans to cover the scope of work that is needed to rehabilitate the terminal.
State Desk on 11/18/2016