![]() The mural is a partnership with the city’s public art advisory committee. The Iowa City Airport is raising $35,000 to fund a mural on the airport hangar facing Riverside Drive. “We’re interested in trying to have (the mural) show some of the history because (the airport has) been there for over 100 years, and there’s been a lot of history,” Judy Pfohl, chair of the Iowa City Airport Commission, told The Gazette last year. The 12-foot-tall, 300-foot-long mural is a partnership with the city’s public art advisory committee. The first project the fund will support is the new art mural on an airport hangar facing Riverside Drive. The impacts on commercial airlines weren’t mirrored in general aviation since the travel is point-to-point within a smaller group of people, he said. The city-owned general aviation airport bounced back “extremely quickly” from the pandemic. “People are looking at Iowa City as an example of an active, quality airport,” Tharp said. ![]() Residents have a better understanding of the airport’s contributions to the community, he said. The Iowa DOT’s aviation economic impact report highlighted 241 total jobs impact, with 77 being direct airport jobs.Īirport Manager Michael Tharp previously told The Gazette it gives him a sense of pride that the work put in to revitalize the airport over the last 20 years is paying off. The airport’s total annual economic activity is $23.6 million, according to a report published last year by the Iowa Department of Transportation. ![]()
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