{"id":6740,"date":"2021-12-02T17:11:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T22:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=6740"},"modified":"2021-12-02T17:11:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T22:11:07","slug":"columbias-new-airport-terminal-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2021\/12\/02\/columbias-new-airport-terminal-takes-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia\u2019s new airport terminal takes off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/IMG_4728-scaled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_4728-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of President Choi and Mayor Treece signing a steel beam.\" class=\"wp-image-6746\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Columbia Mayor Brian Treece and President Choi signed a steel beam for the new Columbia Regional Airport terminal (photo courtesy of the City of Columbia).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Columbia hit another milestone of progress today when several mid-Missouri regional leaders and I signed the final steel beam being placed at Columbia\u2019s Regional Airport\u2019s new terminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When finished next summer, COU\u2019s expansion will accommodate more passengers and set a new tone for our region.&nbsp; And it could not come at a better time as MU recruits more research faculty and continues to form new industry partnerships through our NextGen Precision Health initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mizzou has a strong partnership with the City of Columbia, and I was honored to represent all Tigers at this historic event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia hit another milestone of progress today when several mid-Missouri regional leaders and I signed the final steel beam being placed at Columbia\u2019s Regional Airport\u2019s new terminal. When finished next summer, COU\u2019s expansion will accommodate more passengers and set a new tone for our region.&nbsp; And it could not come at a better time as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}