Business View Magazine l January 2023

251 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 “We have a lot of construction that will occur here in the next 12 months,” Tate says with a Chuckle, “as a matter of fact, I’ve been here almost 12 years and in the next 12 months, we will undertake more construction than we have in all those years combined. It is due to a mix of things. One large construction project will prepare about 15 acres of land for eight to ten future corporate jet hangers. This is going to involve about a $6 million construction project. The bid will be awarded at our authority meeting on January 19th. And like I said, it’s about a $6 million total project and basically moving a lot of dirt to fill in a suppressed area. We have to build one area up about 20 feet. Another area is going to have to be built up about 8 feet. So that’s a lot of dirt spread out over about 15 acres. Once that’s completed, we’re allowing about $1,000,000 to complete the taxiway from that area to tie it into our existing taxi system.” L INCOLNTON REGIONAL AI RPORT “That’s going to be the largest of the three projects,” he continues, “that we will have underway simultaneously here at the airport. This one is a complex mix of federal, state, and local funding. We’ve got a very strong aviation-minded community of leaders here. Then I’ve got two other projects going on, and this is more exciting to me because instead of depending on government grants and government funding, we’ve got private funding.” “We have one company that has signed a land lease with the airport authority, and they’re committed to building a 30,000-square-foot corporate hangar space on the southwest side of our airport; they should be breaking ground in April. Another project, about half that scale, we have a different company, an individual who has had airplanes here for years, who has committed to building a 15,000-square- foot corporate hangar facility on the opposite