Sky-High Ceilings

From the Salt Lake City Weekly’s “Down to the Roadhouse,” by Ted Scheffler:

The Park City Squatters, designed by architect Kin Ng, is a bit sleeker than the downtown Salt Lake City location. It sports a huge deck for warm-weather dining, great views of the Payday ski run at Park City Mountain Resort and a cool 10-seat private booth dubbed the “Brewers Tasting Room,” situated in a newly constructed tower built of reclaimed wood from a World War II airplane hangar in Calgary. Still, the Squatters Roadhouse Grill offers all the warmth and friendly service of the original Squatters, not to mention the same fine beers (see Grapevine, p. 40). And, as with Squatters v1.0, the folks at the Roadhouse Grill are committed to environmentally friendly values which include the use of waterless urinals, high-temp dishwashers, water-wise gardening, energy efficient lighting and recycling of paper products and beer bottles. Why, used brewer’s grains show up in the freshly baked breads at Squatters, and recycled kitchen oils provide bio diesel to run the Squatters delivery truck.

Michigan’s Governor Granholm approved $5M in state funding to assist with the construction of a new hangar at the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base near Oscoda on Monday.  The hangar will be large enough to house 747s, enabling Kalitta Air, a Ypsilanti-based jet cargo carrier, to add 200 technicians to the 570 current employees at Oscoda-Wurtsmith.  Work on 747s had previously been done in Asia.

Oscoda to gain 200 jobs thanks to state funding, The Bay City Times

File under: Coolest thing done with an empty airplane hangar

The Legacy Photo Project has turned an abandoned hangar on the former MCAS El Toro in Irvine, California into the world’s largest camera obscura.  Producing an image 28 feet high and 108 feet wide on a single piece of fabric, Building #115 used to house fighter planes and later, helicopters.

See this article from Photo District News written before the image was exposed.

Stats and background at the Legacy Photo Project website.

From the Peoria Journal Star: 

City Council OKs federal funding eligibility; could mean more hangars 
 

Officials plan to expand the airplane hangar area from 20 hangars to 40 in the next five years to provide more airplane housing. The plan also includes extending secure areas and airspace several miles at each end of the runway to prevent obstructions, such as cell phone towers, Wuellner said.