Grant helps airport get taxiway at bargain price to complete master plan

A plane owned by Thomas Goree taxis off the runaway at the T. C. Russell Airport after landing following a flight from Jacksonville, Florida Tuesday afternoon. (Cliff Williams / The Outlook)

Imagine being able to build a $1 million house on Lake Martin for what it would normally cost to put a doublewide on a vacant lot in the middle of nowhere.

Local officials are seeing that scenario unfold here as a new parallel taxiway project at the T.C. Russell Airport is about to begin construction.