Borrowing to build: Tweed New Haven expansion deal comes with financial risk

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT by JIM HADDADIN AND WALTER SMITH-RANDOLPH | CONNECTICUT PUBLIC RADIO JULY 28, 2021 VIEW AS “CLEAN READ” (ctmirror.org July 28,2021) It’s been a tough stretch for the travel industry, but Tweed New Haven Airport could be poised for a comeback. A new budget airline will begin flights from New Haven this fall, and the company …

10,000 Hawks Group Seeks Open Communication on Tweed Development

BY JENN MCCULLOCH/ZIP06.COM • 07/06/2021 12:15 P.M. EST (zip06.com July 6,2021) EAST HAVEN — For more than two decades, a group of neighbors from East Haven, New Haven, and Fair Haven has focused on the impact that Tweed New Haven Airport has on the community. The group recently renamed itself “10,000 Hawks” as a nod …

“10,000 Hawks” Take Flight Against Tweed Expansion

(New Haven Independent by ALLAN APPEL | Jul 5, 2021 9:32 am) Opponents of the $70 million privately funded plan to expand Tweed-New Haven Airport have formed a new organization to fight it, called 10,000 Hawks. Their aim is to watch like hawks as the plan’s details, to be executed by public Tweed’s private operational managers, the Goldman Sachs-owned Avports, progress into what they …