A Haines developer is moving forward with plans to build a heliport at 10 Mile Haines Highway.
John Floreske applied Oct. 25 to the Army Corps of Engineers for a permit to use nearly 1,500 cubic yards of fill to create three 59-foot helipads in wetlands along the Haines Highway.
The permit application shows plans for three helipads 250 feet apart, each connected to an existing 1,100-foot gravel roadway by a 39-foot-long ramp.
The fill…