Supervisors voted unanimously Monday morning to buy 857 acres to the west of the Golden Triangle Regional Airport for $7,500 per acre, which will be covered by a rural development loan approved by the state. The deal will also give Lowndes County control of another 701 acres for a total addition of 1,558 acres, which will increase the aerospace park by about 22 percent to roughly 6,600 acres.

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