{"id":1747,"date":"2011-05-31T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/ground-breaks-on-99-million-control-tower-at-mccarran-international-airport-in-las-vegas\/"},"modified":"2014-08-05T07:42:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T07:42:26","slug":"ground-breaks-on-99-million-control-tower-at-mccarran-international-airport-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/ground-breaks-on-99-million-control-tower-at-mccarran-international-airport-in-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground Breaks on $99 Million Control Tower at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>McCarran International Airport from above <\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A ground-breaking ceremony was held Tuesday morning at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas to mark the start of construction on a new $99 million air traffic control tower. Set to open in 2015, the new tower will replace an existing one at the aging airport.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was attended by some high profile figures, including US Senator Harry Reid and Federal Aviation Administration chief Randy Babbit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>McCarran is currently undergoing an expansive makeover, with construction of the $1.6 billion Terminal 3 set to wrap up next year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0KVVU Las Vegas <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; McCarran International Airport from above &nbsp; A ground-breaking ceremony was held Tuesday morning at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas to mark the start of construction on a new $99 million air traffic control tower. Set to open in 2015, the new tower will replace an existing one at the aging airport. &nbsp; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97168603,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/97168603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}