Fort Worth’s Alliance Airport examines its future

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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The Fort Worth airport built on a former cow pasture is at a crossroads with two major clients leaving, even as the airport’s opening helped spur plenty of development around it.

Alliance Airport sparked new retailers, apartment complexes and other development along Interstate 35 in Fort Worth, and the airport itself helps move millions of pounds of cargo every year. But with American Airlines and Bell Helicopter set to leave, and some of the plans for Alliance have not come to fruition more than two decades after its opening, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported (http://bit.ly/XFYp3V ) Thursday.

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