Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 7

140 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 7 l Airport I magine it is 1894 and you have made a fortune in the Colorado Mines. Why not find a beautiful spot of land beside the ocean in Texas and build your own city? Well, that is exactly what David Swickheimer did. He gathered three partners, G.M. Magill, N.M. Vogelsang, and Nicholas King and formed the Bay City Town Company. They bought two cow pastures, 320 acres, and started a newspaper – the Bay City Breeze before a single house was built. In fact, the town office that housed the newspaper press, was the first building constructed. It would be 20 years before the train tracks even reached them. It’s a fact that Bay City is a community built on dreams. A tradition that has continued right through to the present day, where residents don’t seem to be able to sit still – but are always thinking outside the box and creating new ways of doing things. Here is a prime example: “We were discussing drilling a drinking water well the other day,” says James Mason, Airport WHERE DREAMS TAKE FLIGHT