Victoria Airport Update

Written by Jennifer Gayle

Wednesday, 12 November 2008

THE VICTORIA REGIONAL AIRPORT...IT'S WHERE BUSINESS CAN THRIVE AND HELP VICTORIAS ECONOMY GROW. BUT NOT WITH THIS MESS.  OVER SEVENTEEN HUNDRED ACRES OF OLD BUILDINGS AND BERRICKS  WERE CRUMBLING TO THE GROUND. BUT TAKE A LOOK AT THE AIRPORT GROUNDS NOW.  "This is what started the project, because for years ago, we were trying to get some brownstone grants, because we realized how dangerous they were and what an eyesore, Gary Burns, Precinct 3 Commissioner.      IT HAS TAKEN TONS OF  WORK FROM DEMOLISHING OLD BUILDINGS, REMOVING ASBESTOS AND CRUSHING CONCRETE SLAB TO TRANSFORM THIS ONCE UNAPPEALING LANDMARK IN ORDER TO ATTRACT HIGH END BUSINESSES TO VICTORIA. "You can visualize an educational whether we have UHV or someone else.  Actually having a clean area because people used call me.  I'd try to sell them on the airport and they wondered why because it looked so bad.  And now their not going to be able to say that," says Burns      JUST GIVING YOU AN IDEA OF HOW MUCH IMPROVEMENT HAS BEEN MADE, JUST LOOK...WHAT WAS ONCE A ROTTING SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT, NOW GIVES THE AIRPORT MORE CURB APPEAL.      AT THE VICTORIA AIRPORT THEY ARE NOT JUST SAYING, OUT WITH THE OLD.   THEY'RE SAYING LET'S FIX UP THE OLD, GIVING SOME OF THE OLDER BUILDINGS, LET'S JUST SAY SOMEWHAT OF A FACE LIFT.      WHILE OVER TWENTY OLD BUILDINGS NEEDED TO BE REMOVED, SOME JUST NEED TO BE SPIFFED UP A BIT BY ADDING NEW SIDINGS AND ROOFS.     "Instead of an old rusty building out here, we have a nice modern looking one, says Burns.      AND EVEN THE MASTER GARDENER ASSOCIATIONS, WHICH CREATED THE ALREADY ATTRACTIVE EDUCATIONAL GARDENS, HAVE PLANS TO EXPAND THE  OFFICERS CLUB.      SO,  YES THERE IS STILL WORK TO BE DONE HERE AT THE VICTORIA REGIONAL AIRPORT, BUT IT'S ALREADY PROVING TO BE A GOOD THING. BURNS SAYS MANY BUSINESSES ARE INQUIRING ABOUT LOCATING AT THE AIRPORT.

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