Business View Magazine | November 2019

141 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 THE MONROE COUNTY A I RPORT its airside uses; it is currently wrapping up a $1.2 million rehabilitation of the primary taxiway that parallels its main runway. “We’re very happy with our airfield,” he says. “We have a 6,500-ft. main runway and a shorter, cross-wind runway. Our winds are predominantly north and south, so we don’t have a strong need for a longer crosswind. But long-term, just for the convenience of our GA aircraft, maybe in the next ten or twenty years, we’ll lengthen our crosswind runway. Our biggest desire, though, is to develop the property that we have on the airfield to make it more accessible and available for aeronautical use. If you look at a map of our Airport, only a small portion of it is currently developed; everything west of the main runway is virtually untouched. It’s one of the unique things about where we are; once you’re west of our main runway, it’s very rural, so we don’t have great utility access there. And that is one of the things we want to focus on in the short-term.” Laverty reveals that a new, cohesive marketing strategy for the Airport is being developed in order to implement its plans. That is why its $1.1 million OFFICES NATIONWIDE ENGINEERING / CONSTRUCTION / PROJECT DELIVERY hanson-inc.com/fly | (800) 788-2450 Hanson hires people who are excited to get to work. They’re so energized by challenges that they sometimes go to extraordinary lengths for our clients. Some might say they wouldn’t expect this level of enthusiasm, but it’s simply how we work. Give us a call to find out what we can do for you. HANDS ON IT’S HOW WE WORK