Despite being hard hit by the economic recession, the City of Ormond Beach inexplicably continues to block the new airport development project, forcing the local developer to seek help from the Federal Aviation Administration.
Five years ago, Arnie B. Green Associates, Inc., a locally based private developer with deep aviation operational and management experience, solid qualifications, combined with strong financial backing sought to lease unused space in the Southwest Quadrant of the Ormond Beach Airport to build new hangars, maintenance shops, a restaurant, and other facilities to service private and business aircraft. The Company submitted to the City a full proposal detailing the improvements and projecting that the project would help attract new aviation-related businesses to relocate to the City, as well as creating 1000 construction jobs and eventually well over 800 full and part-time jobs in the local economy. Yet inexplicably, the proposal has been met with hostility by the City of Ormond Beach.
The project has tremendous potential for public benefit to the people and businesses of Ormond Beach. Arnie B. Green Associates, Inc. simply wants to negotiate in good faith and does not understand the City's refusal even to speak to the Company, and believe the City is in violation of FAA rules and is failing to act in the best interest of its citizens.
After five years of obstruction and refusal to negotiate by the City, developer Arnie B. Green Associates, Inc. has been forced to seek help of the Federal Aviation Administration, which requires federally funded airports such as Ormond Beach to negotiate and provide reasonable access for the public benefit. The City stands to lose over $5.0 million in past federal grants if the FAA finds the City's failure to negotiate violated FAA regulations.
Five years ago, Arnie B. Green Associates, Inc., a locally based private developer with deep aviation operational and management experience, solid qualifications, combined with strong financial backing sought to lease unused space in the Southwest Quadrant of the Ormond Beach Airport to build new hangars, maintenance shops, a restaurant, and other facilities to service private and business aircraft. The Company submitted to the City a full proposal detailing the improvements and projecting that the project would help attract new aviation-related businesses to relocate to the City, as well as creating 1000 construction jobs and eventually well over 800 full and part-time jobs in the local economy. Yet inexplicably, the proposal has been met with hostility by the City of Ormond Beach.
The project has tremendous potential for public benefit to the people and businesses of Ormond Beach. Arnie B. Green Associates, Inc. simply wants to negotiate in good faith and does not understand the City's refusal even to speak to the Company, and believe the City is in violation of FAA rules and is failing to act in the best interest of its citizens.
After five years of obstruction and refusal to negotiate by the City, developer Arnie B. Green Associates, Inc. has been forced to seek help of the Federal Aviation Administration, which requires federally funded airports such as Ormond Beach to negotiate and provide reasonable access for the public benefit. The City stands to lose over $5.0 million in past federal grants if the FAA finds the City's failure to negotiate violated FAA regulations.
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Arnie B. Green Associates, Inc. has proposed a comprehensive airport development project on the Southwest Quadrant of the Ormond Beach Municipal Airport, Ormond Beach, FL after City leaders have long spoken about the significance and importance of the Ormond Beach Airport as an economic development asset to the community.
The development promises to turn unused space and facilities at the Airport into new hangars, shops, a restaurant, and facilities to service private aircraft and attract new aviation-related businesses and growth. It would attract $70 million in new investment at the Airport and would create over 1,800 new jobs.
The development promises to turn unused space and facilities at the Airport into new hangars, shops, a restaurant, and facilities to service private aircraft and attract new aviation-related businesses and growth. It would attract $70 million in new investment at the Airport and would create over 1,800 new jobs.
Ormond Beach Municipal Airport
Southwest Quadrant of the Ormond Beach Municipal Airport
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Arnie B. Green, President of the development company, is a highly respected 28-year retired C-141B and C-17 combat veteran Lt. Colonel in the US Air Force and Air Force Reserves, and a commercial airline pilot with over 14,000 flying hours. He is a locally based private developer with 35 years of deep aviation operational and professional management experience, solid qualifications, combined with strong financial backing and 18-year longtime resident of Ormond Beach.
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The project includes a state-of-the-art Fixed Based Operation which would provide a multitude of aviation services to local and visiting private and business aircraft. In addition, an array of new hangars, maintenance shops and a large chain, family style aviation themed restaurant are planned.
He leads a development team that is well conceived and staffed by a cadre of professional aviation operators, consultants, engineers, attorneys and financial advisors, all subject matter experts, and all enthusiastic to make the project happen. The team has a collective 800 years or more of professional experience in aviation, civilian and military flight and ground operations, business, marketing, finance, airport design and development at airports such as: Tampa International, FL; Indianapolis International, IN; Palm Beach International, West Palm Beach, FL; Cleveland Hopkins International, OH; and Gainesville Regional Airport, FL.
Arnie B. Green Associates, Inc. and its development team have the technical ability, financial capability and resources to complete and operate the private facility at the Airport. We strongly believe in the project and the economic benefits it will bring, including investment, construction, attraction of new business, and good-paying jobs. We have collectively made a significant investment in the project, and are determined to see it to completion.
Arnie B. Green Associates, Inc. and its development team have the technical ability, financial capability and resources to complete and operate the private facility at the Airport. We strongly believe in the project and the economic benefits it will bring, including investment, construction, attraction of new business, and good-paying jobs. We have collectively made a significant investment in the project, and are determined to see it to completion.
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The completed facility will give the City a major boost in accessibility and service that will encourage and enhance the opportunities for business considering relocating to the City. The construction of the complex will also add much needed capacity to the Airport. Upon completion, the project will provide an economic impact to the City of approximately $382 million dollars.
The private development plan is structured so the City of Ormond Beach would have absolutely no financial liability, while bringing significant and much-needed economic development and jobs to the area. The City has nothing to lose, and everything to win.
$70 Million in New Investment
$382 Million 20-Year Impact to Ormond Beach
1800 20-Year Total New Job Effect to Region
$2.0 Million New State & Local Taxes Upon Completion of First Year of Operations
Robust Operations Facility - Not Just Aircraft Storage Hangars
800 Years Total Airport
Development, Engineering & Aviation Team Experience
100+ Years Total Military Command, Control, Operational, Flight & Ground Experience
Robust Aircraft Noise Abatement Program
Protects City from Financial Risk and Liability
No Ormond Beach Funds Required for Financing of Development
$382 Million 20-Year Impact to Ormond Beach
1800 20-Year Total New Job Effect to Region
$2.0 Million New State & Local Taxes Upon Completion of First Year of Operations
Robust Operations Facility - Not Just Aircraft Storage Hangars
800 Years Total Airport
Development, Engineering & Aviation Team Experience
100+ Years Total Military Command, Control, Operational, Flight & Ground Experience
Robust Aircraft Noise Abatement Program
Protects City from Financial Risk and Liability
No Ormond Beach Funds Required for Financing of Development
ABOUT THE PROJECT
ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
AFTER 5 YEARS DEVELOPER SEEKS FEDERAL HELP
TO OVERCOME CITY'S BLOCKAGE OF PROJECT
TO OVERCOME CITY'S BLOCKAGE OF PROJECT
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IS THIS THE TYPE OF NATIONAL RECOGNITION THAT THE CITY OF ORMOND BEACH WANTS, LED BY ITS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR RESPSONSIBLE HIMSELF FOR THE CITY'S AIRPORT WHO ADMITS "I DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT IT" (AIRPORTS)?
HOW IS THE CITY OF ORMOND BEACH'S FIVE PLUS YEARS OF BLOCKING THIS PROJECT, PRODUCING 1800 JOBS TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, POSITIVE IN ANY WAY TO THE CITY OF ORMOND BEACH SURROUNDING COMUNITIES AND ITS TAX PAYING CITIZENS?
DOES THE CITY OF ORMOND BEACH'S OBSTRUCTION OF A $70 MILLION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECT SOUND LIKE A PLACE WHERE "PEOPLE WILL UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE OPEN FOR BUSINESS AND THAT WE MEAN BUSINESS"?
(Mayor Ed Kelley, Daytona Beach News Journal, Business Section, Page 8A, February 22, 2013)
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(Joe Mannarino, Economic Development Director, Daytona Beach News Journal, Local Section, Page 6C, February 23, 2013, Emphasis Added)
HOW DOES THE CITY OF ORMOND BEACH'S BLOCKAGE OF THIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (WHICH WILL GENERATE SIGNIFICANT LOCAL TAX REVENUES TO THE CITY), HELP WITH ITS $37 MILLION UNFUNDED LIABILITIES AND PREVENT THE CITY FROM BEING "PRETTY MUCH NOT SOLVENT" AND "ELIGIBLE FOR BANKRUPTCY" IN "TWO YEARS FROM NOW"?
(Mayor Ed Kelley, Ormond Beach Observer, Page 1, February 28, 2013)