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I’m wondering whatever happened to plans by the airport to turn undeveloped land on Inman Road (northwest Greensboro) into a new service center and parking lot for rental car companies. There’s been no work there for many months.
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We checked with Kevin Baker, executive director of Piedmont Triad Airport Authority, for an update. The project has been delayed indefinitely, he said in an email earlier this week, citing the negative impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the rental car industry. “We were preparing to start work on this last spring, just as COVID hit,” Baker said. “The rental companies were obviously hit hard, and we felt that the fiscally responsible move was to delay the project.” The plan calls for the relocation of the rental car service center from its location near the airport terminal to 57 acres of old farmland on Inman Road. Overgrown with blackberries and briars, the tract contains a pond that the authority plans to drain and fill with dirt to accommodate the service center and parking for about 2,360 vehicles, according to the authority’s 2019 proposal.
Baker said the authority plans to reevaluate the project over the next six to 12 months “and maybe beyond, as the industry hopefully begins to rebound, and we are able to more accurately predict future demands and storage needs.” In mid-2019, crews cut trails through the property to allow for soil tests and other preliminary work. Since then, the authority has posted “No Trespassing” signs along the site, located on the southern side of Inman Road across from Cornerstone Baptist Church and a rear entrance to the Cardinal subdivision. A field across from the church once used by youth soccer teams is now overgrown. The northeastern end of the tract is less than a quarter mile from the stoplight at Inman and Fleming roads, a hub of commercial development with Food Lion, CVS, McDonald’s and other businesses.
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