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Airport expansion puts homeowners in ‘limbo’ Photos by Chris Burritt/NWO
The Piedmont Triad Airport Authority’s recent purchase of two houses on Old Oak Ridge Road signals its further expansion into residential areas
The Piedmont Triad Airport Authority has posted no trespassing signs on some of the property it has purchased, including this house on Pawnee Road at Old Oak Ridge Road in northwest Greensboro. “This is my little paradise,” said Chris Corry, standing in the field where his children once played and he now gardens with his wife, Fenna. The Corrys built the house (shown in background) in 1985. Located on the western side of Old Oak Ridge Road in northwest Greensboro, it is in the targeted area for acquisition by the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority.
by CHRIS BURRITT NW GREENSBORO – Chris and Fenna Corry are preparing to move, although they don’t know when, if ever, the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority (PTAA) will buy their house and five acres. The retired couple learned 17 years ago that their property, located on the western side of Old Oak Ridge Road, is targeted for acquisition by the authority. This past March, PTAA bought two nearby houses and posted a No Trespassing sign, alerting
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property owners about the authority’s plans to acquire land for economic development. Like several dozen other homeowners living in the path of the airport’s planned expansion area, the couple doesn’t know if and when PTAA officials will offer to buy their land. “You’re in limbo,” said Fenna, 73, stepping onto the porch of the house the couple built in 1985 and where they later raised their three children and a foster child. “We don’t know. That’s the quandary.”
As part of its long-range strategic plan, PTAA is now focusing on the acquisition of property along Old Oak Ridge and Pleasant Ridge roads that it doesn’t already own. The authority wants to expand the 1,000acre site – which includes the former Pleasant Ridge Golf Course – it’s assembled over the past 20 years. Grading is underway for the $500 million factory where Boom Supersonic plans to build passenger jets traveling faster than the speed of sound. It sits on
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