$1.1M grant given airport; Will demolish firefighting tower, redo rest of building.

Byline: Aaron Nicodemus

WORCESTER -- Worcester Regional Airport has received a $1.1 million federal grant to demolish a firefighting tower at the airport and refurbish the rest of the building.

The money is part of a $3 million, one-year project which began in April and is scheduled to be completed in April 2015, according to a news release from the Massachusetts Port Authority, owner of the airport.

Opened in 1953, the old Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting tower and accompanying building housed airport maintenance, safety, air traffic control, communications and weather services until 1996, when the airport's air traffic control functions moved to a new...