EDITOR’S NOTES Dear Readers, The fall is in full swing as we put away the beach towels in our closets and the memories of family picnics and family holidays fuel us for the months ahead. As we embrace a new season, the fuel needed to propel municipalities and organizations across North American forward continues to be the best practices, sound initiatives and infrastructure upgrades needed to sour through the fourth fiscal quarter of 2023. Offering bold initiatives, adapting to economic challenges, and putting resident and customer-first policies in place to meet the demands are in full focus for the municipalities, business organizations and airports that we covered for our September issue, With the headwinds behind them, we profiled a group of leading regional airports that have several infrastructure plans that are currently taking off. We sat down with Airport Directors with Billings Logan International Airport, Granbury Regional Airport, Mt. Vernon Outland Airport, Ogdensburg International Airport, Springfield Branson National Airport, and Waco Regional Airport to discuss their airport master plans, meeting continued aviation growth and their economic link to the community and region they serve. In-depth profile features filled our pages with city officials from Aiken, South Carolina, Albemarle, North Carolina, Avon Park, Florida, Corpus Christi, Texas, Dawson County, Georgia, Harrison, Arkansas Palmyra, New Jersey among other fast-growing municipalities. Each region is gearing up for the second half of 2024 looking to focus on infrastructure projects and business growth as well as providing residents what is on their wish list. Commercial growth coupled with residential growth has propelled these municipalities into representing some of the fastestgrowing regions across North America. Companies profiled this month included AC Moate, All American Pet Resorts, Bloomin Blinds, C&S Design and Engineering Inc., Hableman Bro’s, Hoffman Elite Enterprises, and the Loomex Group among other leading businesses and organizations. Looking ahead, all these companies show leadership and produce unparalleled projects to increase their business foothold. All these companies are steering their economic engines towards further growth in the latter half of 2024. As we continue to bring you the very best sector and industry-focused features, we hope that you take time for yourself to soak in the early fall air, sit down and enjoy our sector-focused features. Karen Surca Editor in Chief 2 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 05, ISSUE 09
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