News / Transborder SkyBridge $230m development can fly on US-Mexico trade growth

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As development schemes go, the SkyBridge Arizona plan is ambitious, soaring as much on hopes from high-up, as on recent growth in traffic flows.

SkyBridge has the support of the Arizona state government, which has welcomed the prospect of 17,000 jobs generated by an 800,000 sq ft air cargo complex that should spawn light industrial and other commercial activities in its wake, on a 360-acre site.

The $230m scheme is based on the imminent establishment of a joint US-Mexican customs facility at ...