Business View Magazine | December 2020

246 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2020 They built the Verve Innovation Park and got FedEx as the initial tenant. That FedEx facility has been operating there for about five years. And we just sold a parcel to QBP, Quality Bike Parts, that are going to build a distribution centre on the property down there.” Anslow and his team are now looking at how to develop the 170 acres they have left for aviation usage. He notes, “We have what we are calling Phase One because it has immediate access to the runways and taxiways of the current airport, the way it is set up. But working with the FAA, we have decided to create a new taxiway. We have a road that is 600 feet from the runway that dissects our aviation land the way we want to develop it.” So starting in 2021, that road will be diverted to go around the aviation land and then in 2023 building will begin on a taxiway out into that land – funded by the FAA to further development. “We are so blessed here,” says Anslow. “We have great FBOs and great tenants, great partnerships are strong partners for the airport and to the community.” Pilatus Aircraft Ltd, who operate a 120,000-square-foot completion onsite facility, make aircraft in Switzerland and fly them to Colorado for completion. They are now going into phase two and building a paint shop onsite. And negotiations are underway with another company to develop about 30 acres on the south side of the airport and start some growth there. According to Anslow, “About 10 years ago, Jefferson County, RMMA, and Urban Frontier (a development firm) came to an agreement where they would develop roughly 460 acres of our non-aviation land. On the south side of the airport, we have over 550 acres of land of which about 170 are available for aviation development because the terrain is flat and relatively level with the existing airport. But then it drops off fairly significantly. So with the FAA’s concurrence, we came to an agreement to have Urban Frontier help to develop this area.