Business View Magazine | March 2020

220 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 want to do. So, there’s land on our property if this runway extension goes through that we can develop. I think the timing would be right, because the 25 acres that general aviation makes available now will be filled up, hopefully, in ten years. Then, we’d be looking to develop somewhere else, and this would be the logical place to do that.” All of these current and potential improvements at Yeager are part of what Keller and his colleagues have laid out in their Airport Organizational Vision Statement, which envisions the Airport becoming the region’s and the state’s most important economic development engine. One important part of that vision is attracting more aerospace companies to the Airport, which would largely depend on an educated workforce capable of filling the jobs that new companies to the area would need to fill. The good news is that is getting ready to occur. “We reached out to Marshall University,” Keller recounts. “It’s got about 13,000 students in Call our expert team TODAY to plan your next event! www.chaswvccc.com 304-345-1500 #TheCenterofitALL