In this Oct. 17, 2018 photo, work continues on one of the runways of Mexico City's new airport, on Lake Texcoco's dry lake bed, México. Like much of Mexico City, the new airport is being built on ...

Just half an hour from downtown Mexico City, an ecological park twice the size of Manhattan is taking shape on the construction site of an abruptly canceled airport. At the center of the emerging ...

The sprawling new airport under construction on the outskirts of Mexico City is one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in this country’s history, with a $14-billion price tag.

The project is designed to be constructed in the basin of the former Lake Texcoco, which dried as Mexico City expanded into a megacity of more than 20 million people over the past two millennia.

Mexico City desperately needs a new airport. It also needs more green space. ... The new airport will occupy 17 square miles of the 46-square-mile former Lake Texcoco.

The airport was built on the dry lakebed of what was once Lake Texcoco, an area composed of loosely packed, clay-rich subsoils that present difficulties for architects and structural engineers. Like ...

The project is designed to be constructed in the basin of the former Lake Texcoco, which dried as Mexico City expanded into a megacity of more than 20 million people over the past two millennia.

Named the Lake Texcoco Ecological Park, the project entailed the regeneration and building of public infrastructure on a massive wetland environment on the eastern side of Mexico's capital city.

Mexico City was built on dried lake beds — but now another lake is disappearing. ... broke ground in March 2022 about a mile and a half from the airport. Once completed, ... That spot was on an island ...

That same year, the lake was set to be drained completely as the site was chosen for a US$13 billion airport. But when Andrés Manuel López Obrador became president in 2018, he canceled the airport ...

The Aztec city was on an island in Lake Texcoco, but the Spanish drained the surrounding lake over centuries and expanded Mexico City onto the new land. Today, ...