As legislators in Jefferson City continued to debate $360 million in tax credits to help fund an international cargo hub at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, the airport's director, Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge, plowed forward on her end of the project.
In a meeting Wednesday (Sept. 07) of the airport commissioners, Hamm-Niebruegge succeeded in getting her fellow board members to unanimously approve a lease agreement and operating contract with China Cargo, the freight division of China Eastern. The deal will have China Cargo leasing a 22,000-square-foot building at the airport for $175,000 a year (minus a few incentives) and providing flights to Lambert for up to three years, the first of which begin this month. |
