www.Parctel.com: Panama - Chris Berry had no trouble finding a parking spot at the Panama City-Bay County International Airport on Tuesday afternoon. “It’s about 100 yards that way,” Berry said, pointing to his left as he awaited the arrival of his girlfriend. Berry was parked in the airport’s ropeenclosed, sidewalk-free overflow lot, a grassy area that sits about two blocks away from the main parking area. Joe Lopes made it into the main parking lot, but that’s not always the case.
“Sometimes it’s a little crowded and you have to hunt to find a space,” said Lopes, who was in the airport waiting for family Tuesday afternoon.
The Airport Authority is in the process of building a new overflow parking lot, and on Oct. 1 raised the parking rate. Customers now will pay $1 per half-hour, up from $.50 a halfhour. One day of parking now will cost $8, up from $6.
The airport is raising the rate, in part, to pay for the new parking lot, said Randy Curtis, the executive director of the airport. The new, 150-space lot has a $400,000 price tag and is being built by Carr Engineering. It is slated to be finished at the end of the month.
The expenditure comes as the Airport Authority is relocating to a 4,000-acre, St. Joe Co.-donated site in West Bay. That project is supposed to be finished by the end of 2009.
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