Business View Magazine March 2023

234 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 3 are underway with a company and once a contract is finalized they will be constructing a solar field that will produce 110% of the airport’s demand allowing them to sell power back to the grid or utilize it for other city- owned facilities near the airport. This will be an eight-month project and when complete will allow the airport to achieve both green initiatives and significant cost savings. This year will also see the beginning construction of the rehabilitation of taxiway Lima, which is a parallel taxiway to runway 6/24. Taxiway Lima is approximately 5,000 feels that has helped the working relationship. “He knows the runways; he knows the systems. He has his own plane in New Jersey that he would fly to work,” Brewer adds, “He was even able to be in real-time contact with the FAA and he just understands what pilots need and exactly how airports operate, so we could not have asked for any better working relationship,” Brewer outlines. Another major project which will see the modernization of the airport in terms of green energy use is a new solar farm. Negotiations