Business View Magazine l October 2022

193 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 10    € ‚ ‚‚ €      ◆ ­ CORPUS CHR I ST I INTERNAT IONAL A I RPORT restaurants opening. Tesla is getting ready to open a new production facility for their batteries in Robstown, just six miles from the airport. So, everything seems to be looking up.” Smith goes on to say that the airport has also been fortunate in gaining funding recently. They received a $750,000 guaranteed revenue grant from the Texas Department of Transportation, with which they plan to create a nonstop route to Denver. Corpus Christi International has been in conversation with several airlines about this possibility, including Frontier, Spirit, and Southwest, and when you combine the TxDOT grant with a local revenue guarantee, it’s a $1.6 million proposal. Secondly, they have received an FAA Bipartisan Infrastructure grant for $17 million. “What that does is take our 15-year capital improvement plan and allow us to complete it in two years,”