Many do not realize that St. Joe and the Airport have a long history. They've been working together for more than 10 years. Many people also do not realize that it was the Airport Authority that approached St. Joe, not the other way around. Click here for an article on the whole story.
I got this article from the Bay County Economic Development Alliance. A friend of mine sent me the link, although I could only get one of the recent article links to work.
Recently it was confirmed that Southwest Airlines was in some discussion with area airports. It would appear as though Ft. Walton and the new Bay County International Airport are in competition to host Southwest, however Southwest stated that they are not planning on expanding their service area anytime in the next year. The whole article can be found here.
Insurance rates are still on the rise, and our state legislature is very aware of the citizens concern. More can be read here.
With the area's growth, new roads are needed. With new roads, comes much planning. Two articles can be found on local road development here and here.
Monday, December 11, 2006
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Our local economic development departments/committees need to be working this hard. They need to be working as best as they can to get national and international awareness of the area up. They need to be creating additional demand for tourism. It's economics 101 and if they would focus on the demand side then companies ... airlines, retailers, restaurateurs and the like will come. I hate to be the one to continue to clang the $ bell but that's what it's about. People bring dollars and dollars bring better companies.
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