replacement is EVV’s next major infrastructure investment. “That’s a really big project for us,” Hahn acknowledges, noting the scale relative to the airport’s size. LAUNCHING THE NEW GA TERMINAL The centerpiece of EVV’s corporate aviation expansion is a new general aviation terminal that more than doubles the previous facility’s capacity. Built in partnership with United Companies Air Center, the facility serves the airport’s 70-80 based aircraft, which range from large corporate hangars to personally owned planes. “We went from a 4,500-square-foot building to a 10,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility,” Hahn says. The terminal’s design specifically targets business development and site selection activities. “If you’re a business and you’re coming in to complete a deal, or quite honestly, if you’re just coming in and doing site selection, you can fly over your site, land, walk out of your plane, walk into this beautiful building, walk into a conference room with our economic development team, work through anything,” Hahn 184 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 12, ISSUE 09
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