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Business World |
May 2015
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preciate being able to get a good shoe shine
in the airport,” Maleszewski continued. “It is
a unique offering, and he gets plenty of re-
peat customers.”
THE FUTURE - GLOBAL
GROWTH
Moving forward and closer to completing
the projects will forever change the land-
scape of Tallahassee Airport. The sweeping
changes will have a forthcoming impact and
influence once the upgrading and rebrand-
ing is done. But welcoming the world and
the cosmopolitan crowd that comes with it,
Curry understands his role in forming new
attitudes and shifting perspective.
“Building strong relationships with all of our
business partners is critical to receiving the
essential ‘buy-in’ needed from the city and
the community to keep our forward mo-
mentum going,” he said. “As the director, I
take every advantage to speak at community
engagements and with civic groups in order
to promote the airport, educate the commu-
nity, and share our vision.”
A huge boon for the city’s economic devel-
opment, Tallahassee faces marketing chal-
lenges, mainly dealing with the expectations
of functioning like a larger airport in a larger
city with greater demand for air service on a
daily basis. Even with the projected timeline
and implementation of the changes being
three to five years from now, the airport still