Business View Magazine | July 2019

136 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JULY 2019 state and federal funds. “We have also just completed our 20-year strategic Master Plan,” Viventi adds, “and the next big thing on the books is terminal area development and a new terminal building. Then we have some corporate terminal building work to do and we are also looking at an aviation industry park on the south side of the Airport with a possible railway spur to the existing line and a parallel taxiway to serve the industrial park.” Although a small airport, Rocky Mount-Wilson Regional’s contribution to the area is great; a recent economic impact study done jointly by the State Division of Aviation and North Carolina University determined that the local business revenue from the Airport is $69.7 million per annum. “We also determined that we support 450 jobs, which amounts to $25.9 million in personal income, and, overall, we account for $2.9 million in local and state tax income,” concludes Viventi. “And we do all that with only 30,000 annual operations.” PREFERRED VENDOR n Anthony Allega Cement Contractor, Inc. www.allega.com Based out of Cleveland, Ohio, Allega is proud to be involved with the Rocky Mount- Wilson Regional Airport Authority Runway & Taxiway Rehabilitation of Runway 4-22 with 7,100 LF reconstruction and Full Depth Pavement Reclamation. Once completed, the Airport will also gain a new P-401 Asphalt Taxiway Connector, providing aircrafts with better ingress and egress to the Terminal from Taxiway A. Learn more about Allega and its projects at allega.com