Business View Magazine June 2023

206 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 6 sure we are successful alongside them.” Following the master plan, KDCU began this work by allocating 85 acres on the southeast side of the property for maintenance, repair, and overhaul facilities which will be designed to service the larger aircraft up to military C130s as well as rotary wing aircraft. The next phase will be a parallel taxiway which is already budgeted as an $8 million project, and then more hangars and facilities, both large and small. “It is all about growth because we are trying to avoid the tug and pull that we feel now, being almost at capacity and having a full ramp,” Fox explains. “We want to be able to handle more and keep it safe and able to flow. We’re going to be expanding, but really and truly what we’re trying to do is segregate our operations. We want our transient ramp to be our transient ramp and we plan to build a cargo ramp to