BREMERTON — Companies want more space to park corporate jets at Bremerton National Airport, and the port is obliging.

Port of Bremerton Chief Operating Officer Fred Salisbury said the agency received requests from three local corporations in the past 18 months for hangar space, spurring plans for construction of a new hangar area at the south end of the runway. The airport already has space for about five corporate jets, but those hangars are full, Salisbury said.

"It's exciting for the airport to be able to attract these kind of aircraft," he said.

On Tuesday, port commissioners will consider a $212,500 contract with Century West engineering for permitting and planning. The first phase of the project will create pads for two, 10,000-square-foot corporate hangars and one 13,000-square-foot corporate hangar, along with access road and utility extensions, and taxiways.

Construction will begin this summer with an overall budget of roughly $1.6 million. Once complete, corporate tenants will lease the pads from the port and pay to have hangars built, Salisbury said. A second phase of the project, which could start in 2020, will add three tee-hangar buildings, with space for 16 general aviation aircraft, and six, 50-foot by 50-foot box hangars.

Salisbury said there is some space remaining for hangar construction at the north end of the airport and an 80-foot by 80-foot hangar is already planned near the main entrance. Otherwise, the west side of the facility is close to fully developed and the port will turn its attention to the east side in coming years, he said.

Industrial sites planned

Hangars won't be the only buildings going up soon near Bremerton National.

The port's 2019 budget also included $2.65 million for development of an Olympic View Industrial Park property dubbed "The Wedge." Plans for the 7.4-acre parcel, wedged between Highway 3 and Imperial Way, include a 4,000-square-foot building and "pad-ready" sites for industrial use.

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Commissioners approved a $98,475 contract with N.L. Olson & Associates, Inc. on Jan. 8 for design and engineering for the project.

At the same meeting, the commission awarded Parametrix, Inc. a $298,483 contract to finish designs of a 3,800-foot extension to Airport Industrial Way on the east side of the airport (formerly known as the Cross SKIA Connector). The port will seek federal grants to build the extension.

Also in the works is a 16,000-square foot building designed to draw new tenants to the northeast corner of the port's industrial park.