"The Board of Public Works last night map preliminary arrangements for leasing a portion of the lake front at the southeastern corner to the Thomas Brothers Aeroplane Company, thus affording them an opportunity to launch their hydroaeroplanes. The leasing of this land will mean the establishment of an aero station and the erection of a large hangar.
On the north side of the hangar the Thomas company plans to provide quarters for its hydroaeroplanes so that they may easily be taken to the water in readines[s] for a flight. On the south side the land tractors will be housed. To the southward stretches a long tract of land over which the tractors and aerplanes[s] may commence their flight.
This big space of formerly waste land, which stretches away northward from the former city limits, constitutes what has become known as the Industrial Tract, a portion of land to be devoted to industries in the event the Industrial Commission is successful in its efforts to develop Ithaca commercially. The city limits were extended to include this land several years ago. The lake front land, about 300 feet in length, will be leased to the Thomas Company probably for about $50 a year...."

"To Lease Part of Industrial Tract To Aero Company," Ithaca Journal, May 27, 1915, 7.