The Hanscom Field Advisory Commission will discuss the latest developments on the proposed Hanscom Field expansion at its meeting on Tuesday, March 21 from 7–8 p.m. via Zoom (link here; passcode: 194503).
The HFAC is a monthly forum in which Massport reports on the past month’s activities to Hanscom-area towns and residents can direct questions and comments to Massport. Officials and residents from those four towns have protested a proposal to add about 408,000 square feet of new hangar space and reconfigure a taxiway to accommodate larger aircraft at Hanscom Field.
The public comment period on the initial notification process closed on February 14 and the developers must now prepare a draft Environmental Impact Report, which will be also be open to public comment before a decision on the plan is made.
Another potential wrinkle: the recent bank collapse of SVB. The head of the SVB Securities division is Jeffrey Leerink, who is also a principal of Runway Realty Ventures LLC, the owner of the Navy hangar private property that represents nearly half of the North Airfield development site, according to reporting by the Bedford Citizen.
“At this point, I don’t know if there will be any impact on the Hanscom project, but the connection raises unanswered questions,” HFAC member Christopher Eliot of Lincoln told the Citizen.