Business View Magazine | September 2020

185 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2020 SUPERIOR VEGETATION MANAGEMENT SINCE 1984 Your one stop shop for airport maintenance! Guaranteed Results! Contact: Services Include: Runway Cracks Embankments Fence Lines Runway Lights Drainage Canals Turf Regulator (540) 491-2690 - amicklem@weedcontrolinc.com AWOS THE WARRENTON-FAUQUI ER A I RPORT organization and moving into the future.” Already, the terminal has attracted some new tenants. “We have a new tandem jumping parachute company – DC Skydiving Center,” says Darrah. “That’s one new business at the Airport. And we’ve got Aviation Adventures, which was the flight school down in our old building; they’ve leased the new office space up here in our new building and operate off of our new ramp with their flight training.” “And the terminal is more than just a terminal,” Darrah adds. “It has the ability to be a meeting place for the community; we’ve already had several town hall meetings out here for various events. So, it serves a multi-role. It could also be a short-term emergency center in the event that the surrounding area has some kind of catastrophe. The building has plenty of restrooms and showers. So, the state or county can use it as an emergency operations center to coordinate activities.” Since the FAA doesn’t support terminal building projects in general aviation airports, 57 percent of the building’s $4.8 million cost was supplied by the Commonwealth of Virginia. “That’s based on the amount of space in the building that is considered ‘public space,’” Darrah explains. “We added a thousand square feet on our second floor for offices, so that took away from the amount of public space. The County had to come up with 43 percent of the cost for the building, but out of that 43 percent, about a million of that was donated by a very generous family. The state paid for the floor space in the kitchen, which is designed to provide catering support to an event, but they would not outfit the kitchen. We have top-of-the-line equipment up there - about $40,000 worth of appliances - and that was all donated by generous benefactors around the Airport. They also paid for our furniture in our private spaces and three large TVs. So, when it came time to buy the furniture and the appliances and other accoutrements that you would need to outfit the terminal, it was all paid