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Gerald R. Ford International airport cuts the ribbon on its new consolidated car rental facility

Rendering of exterior of the CONRAC, consolidated rental car facility
Courtesy: Gerald R. Ford International Airport
Rendering of exterior of the CONRAC, consolidated rental car facility

CONRAC opens to the public July 8th.

The consolidated rent-a-car facility, or CONRAC, as airport officials are calling it, is the first of its kind in the state. The $156 million dollar facility brings all rental car functions under one roof providing covered parking and including cleaning and fueling.

It increases capacity and provides quick-turn-around for the airport’s seven rental car partners. For customers it offers a climate-controlled sky bridge from the terminal and streamlines services.

Airport Authority President Tory Richardson says it supports passenger demand anticipated over the next two decades. In a news release airport leadership also anticipates environmental benefits, “reducing vehicle miles traveled by three miles per vehicle, or a total of 600,000 miles per year. More than 90% of the rental car operations will be removed from the Airport’s roadway system, reducing 500,000 pounds of carbon per year and increasing curbside capacity.”

The CONRAC opens to the public July 8th.

Patrick joined WGVU Public Media in December, 2008 after eight years of investigative reporting at Grand Rapids' WOOD-TV8 and three years at WYTV News Channel 33 in Youngstown, Ohio. As News and Public Affairs Director, Patrick manages our daily radio news operation and public interest television programming. An award-winning reporter, Patrick has won multiple Michigan Associated Press Best Reporter/Anchor awards and is a three-time Academy of Television Arts & Sciences EMMY Award winner with 14 nominations.