Thanks Paul, nothing like firsthand experience. Yea, I might be able to live with handing the hangar over to the City of Boulder after twenty years. I worry about how that affects resale value.my Nearby Longmont’s policy is at the end of the 35 years, the city has to buy it at fair market value, or negotiate another lease. Much better terms and only about 15 minutes farther from my home…
I’m now steering away from the Rocky Mountain Metro Airport because of high hangar costs ($200,00K plus for 2000 sqft hangar, or $1500/mo for 3000 sq ft rental) and high fuel costs ~$6.30/gal. Longmont is about $5/gal.
Thanks everyone for the help, still welcome more…
Valin
From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of paul miller
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 11:08 AM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Re: Boulder Colorado Area Hangar Advice?
A few times this summer I've flown into Boulder and it is a friendly airport, good location. They started paving the ramp which was in terrible shape. I personally wouldn't mind having the city acquire the hangar in 20 years if I had an option to lease. Perhaps that is a workable deal to stay in Boulder.
Spruce Creek
On 2012-02-17, at 8:55 AM, Valin & Allyson Thorn wrote:
I’ve heard a lot of good things about the Front Range Airport. Unfortunately, we live in Boulder and it’s a pretty long drive out there. Since we’re still building and need to be in the hangar often it makes a long drive even more of a problem. Thanks for the feedback on the Longmont airport problems. The Boulder airport is closest, of course, but we’d have to build a new hangar and the city’s terms are that they own it in 20 years. Explains why it’s not thriving like the other nearby airports…