Business View Magazine | July 2019

128 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JULY 2019 Airpark which was opened in 2014 and has 60 acres of shovel-ready land that already has all of the upfront services, like land surveys, geotechnical services, wetland delineation, and utility descriptions provided, in order to save expenses and expedite future development schedules. They are also willing to build to suit. Germolus notes, “There is a company called Detroit Reman; it’s a Detroit Diesel re-manufacturing company, and they refurbish the computers for larger industrial units – large trucks or buses, even locomotives – along with the wiring harness cluster in the engines, as well as some of the instrument panels for Mercedes-Benz. They employ about 120 people, now.” Another player on the corporate stage of the airport is Midwest Aircraft Refinishing, which recently completed a land-lease build of a $1.4 million hangar. “Cirrus Aircraft is a manufacturing company in Duluth, about 70 miles away,” says Germolus, “and when they were a younger company, they used to fly their planes out to Hibbing to be painted. That was not very cost