Business View Magazine | November 2020

166 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2020 available for lease, each with 200-foot parking apron frontage. City water and sewer, power, and phone lines are within about 100 feet of the sites. Leases are for 40 years, renewable and priced at $0.16 per square foot per year. An area on the north end of the airfield has already been approved for additional hangar space. At this time, the county does not have plans to build anymore hangars but ground leases are available to any private developer who wants to build new hangars. The planes at Grant County Regional Airport are, primarily, privately owned. A company called CO Fire Aviation occupies one of the hangars and there is room to grow for additional companies Funding for the airport comes from its own operations. “We are considered self-sufficient in the county budget, so our job is to generate revenue to operate the airport,” Walker explains. “We do receive a management fee from managing all the common space and utilities for the Airport, and we receive that from the forest service as part of our agreement on the joint Annual Membership $69 Idaho’s largest air medical provider l i f e f l i gh t . o r g | 800.982.9299 There. When You Need Us. ® Unparalleled Care and Financial peace-of-mind