August/September Business View Magazine

118 119 have 180 GA hangars, and we manage around 300 leases - some corporate, some GA.” Currently, RMMA is home to corporate aviation facilities for Ball Corporation, Level 3 Communications, Boul- der Aviation, and Leprino Foods. “I talk to devel- opers almost weekly to try and find out where, how, and when we can build hangars of all sizes to accommodate our long waiting list for hangars, and service these people who want to fly and buy fuel and train students in flight school,” he adds. Denver Air Connection, operated by Key Lime Air, operated from RMMA to Grand Junction be- fore consolidating its operations for the Den- ver-Grand Junction route to nearby Centennial Airport in May 2017, except for one monthly flight out of RMMA. “I want to bring a commercial flight service to the Airport,”Anslow confides. “We used to have six-day-a-week commercial; it’s down to one day a month, so we’re really pushing hard to get that back up and running.We’re strategically located between Boulder and Denver, two grow- ing, high-end cities, and we think that we’re in the right place, at the right time, and commercial service would be an absolute knockout for the Airport, the community, and our business part- ners, here. Our long-term goal is to build a ter- minal with three gates and have three separate airlines travelling in and out of here and servicing the southwest U.S.” The airport also contains a number of non-aeronautical businesses on the property, including two restaurants, a number of office tenants, and a few retail outparcels. The opportu- nity for growth is huge, with 600 acres of devel- opable land available to build into a world-class ROCKY MOUNTAIN METROPOLITAN AIRPORT AT A GLANCE ROCKY MOUNTAIN METROPOLITAN AIRPORT WHAT: A public-use airport owned and operated by Jeffco County WHERE: Broomfield, Colorado WEBSITE: www.jeffco.us/airport