Panama Plans Airport City
Panama has a new project called Aeropolis or Airport City.
Based on projections that $8 million passengers will travel through Panama’s Tocumen International Airport in 2015, government designs are in the works for a “small commercial city” of hotels, convention centers and commercial spaces. The concept even includes a hospital to facilitate medical tourism.
The small commercial city would be built on 741 acres acquired from the University of Panama this past June for $109 million. Government master planners expect the concept to be in place and lots ready for public sector development in 2011. With an estimated investment of $400 million, Aeropolis will compliment two new wings, adding a total of 32 new gates.
Tocumen received 2.7 million passengers in 2005 and 4.8 million last year.
La Prensa reports.
[...] of a food court accompanies the expansion of the Tocumen terminal and the plans to build Airport City. Tierra Firme / PHOTO New World [...]