INSIDE ALASKA BUSINESS.

Stantec

The ConocoPhillips Building's days as Alaska's tallest inhabited structure are numbered. A new control tower for Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport will rise 4 feet taller, to more than 300 feet, twice as tall as the existing airport tower. The Federal Aviation Administration selected Stantec to provide architecture and engineering design services. The current tower was built in 1977 to accommodate only four air traffic controllers. An increase in aircraft movements since then created a need for more controllers, leading to overcrowding.

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Amazon

The former Sears warehouse near Midtown Anchorage has a new tenant. Amazon is setting up a sorting facility in the 88.000-square-foot building. Renovation is scheduled this spring. The warehouse has been vacant since Sears downsized in 2018, and last year it was purchased by Time Equities, Inc.

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Advanced Supply Chain International

A subsidiary of Anchorage-based Advanced Supply Chain International (ASCI) won a $12.4 million contract to provide logistics service support for federal agencies, both civilian and military, in Alaska. ASCI has been providing supply chain and asset management consulting and services to commercial and government customers since 1999, but this is the company's first federal contract. The one-year contract comes with four one-year extension options.

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Enstar | Chugach Electric

For the last few years, Southcentral Alaska has burned more natural gas than is produced in Cook Inlet, drawing on stored resources. That fact has Enstar and Chugach Electric Association each hiring consultants to evaluate options for importing liquified natural gas. Enstar notified the Regulatory Commission of Alaska that the cost of the consultant might be tacked onto customer charges.

enstarnaturalgas.com | chugachelectric.com

Alaska Renewables

A startup company is proposing the largest wind farm in Alaska yet. Alaska Renewables, formed two years ago by former UAF oceanographer Andrew McDonnell and engineer Matt Perkins of Nevada, has two subsidiaries pursuing projects in Southcentral and the Interior. Little Mount Susitna Wind would install up to eighty turbines near Tyonek, generating as much as 250 MW, ten times the size of the Eva Creek wind farm near Healy, currently the largest in the state. Shovel Creek...