A battle’s brewing between state lawmakers who want to build an airport at Bluegrass Station and those who say the thousands of acres needed for it would replace valuable farmland. Bluegrass Station is a nearly 800-acre military-industrial business park on the outskirts of Lexington owned by the state since 2008. Bluegrass Station Director Steve Collins said there are many reasons for the expansion.
“We’ve got a national defense need, we’ve got a state strategic and financial need, we’ve got a regional aviation and aerospace need. We’ve got a people need -- the people that currently work here, and the people that could work here.”
