8 companies vie to build airport hangar

County commissioners have received bids from 8 companies interested in building an 11 thousand square foot hangar at the Apalachicola airport that they hope will bring more jobs to the site. The hangar would be used to paint and refurbish aircraft if a private business is willing to use it for that – if not the hangar would be used for additional office space at the airport. Bids for building the hangar ranged from about 814 thousand dollars to over 875 thousand dollars – fitting the hangar to paint aircraft will add 320 thousand to 400 thousand dollars to the cost. There were no local bids for the project, the closest company was from Café Construction out of Mexico Beach; other bids came from as far away as Gainesville and Valdosta, Georgia. The bid will be awarded once they have been considered by the county engineer.